A Decent Home

Planning, Building, and Preserving Affordable Housing
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-33005-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

What is a decent home? Does it simply provide shelter from the elements? Is it affordable enough that you can buy the other necessities of life? Does it connect you to a community with adequate social and economic resources? Noted housing expert Alan Mallach turns his decades of experience to these questions in "A Decent Home".

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Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallach, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Case for Affordable Housing 2. Affordable Housing in the United States: A Short History 3. Designing Affordable Housing 4. Finding Sites and Gaining Approval for Affordable Housing 5. Making the Numbers Work: Financing Affordable Housing 6. Developing Affordable Housing, Step-by-Step 7. Concentration and Opportunity: Undoing the Exclusion of Affordable Housing 8. Affordable Housing, Community Development Corporations, and Neighborhood Revitalization 9. The Risks and Rewards of Affordable Home Ownership 10. Preserving Affordable Housing 11. Homelessness and Affordable Housing 12. Inclusionary Housing: Using the Market to Create Affordable Housing 13. Policies, Politics, and the Future of Affordable Housing in the United States

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Mallach, FAICP, is a nonresident senior fellow of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and a visiting scholar of the Community Affairs Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.