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1	Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics more books like this by Charles M Lamb add to wishlist This book examines national fair housing policy from 1960 through 2000 in the context of the American presidency and the country's segregated suburban housing market. It argues that a principal reason for suburban housing segregation lies in Richard Nixon's 1971 fair housing policy, which directed Federal agencies not to place pressure on suburbs ... see all copies from £6.20! new only from £6.20!
2	America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy more books like this by Howard Husock add to wishlist Low-income housing programs and lesser-known initiatives have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage, Mr. Husock argues. He emphasizes the deep but unappreciated importance to American society of economically diverse urban neighborhoods, and he demonstrates the historic and continuing importance of privately ... see all copies from £9.13! new only from £10.53!
3	Segregation: The Rising Costs for America more books like this by Professor James H Carr (Editor), Nandinee K Kutty (Editor) add to wishlist "Segregation: The Rising Costs for America", documents how discriminatory practices in the housing markets through most of the past century, and that continue today, have produced extreme levels of residential segregation that result in significant disparities in access to good jobs, quality education, homeownership attainment and asset ... see all copies from £8.05! new only from £19.82! \| signed copies
4	Housing Policy in the United States: An Introduction more books like this by Alex F Schwartz add to wishlist "Housing Policy in the United States "is an essential guidebook to and textbook for housing policy, and is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important issues in the field, introduces key concepts and institutions, and examines the most important programs. ... see all copies from £21.65! new only from £26.82!
5	Under the Rose: A Confession more books like this by Flavia Alaya add to wishlist This book tells the story of an exceedingly unlikely love affair between the author, an Italian-American Victorian scholar with a Ph.D. from Columbia, and the famous Irish-American Catholic priest and housing activist Harry Browne. Brought together by common passions for low-income housing and each other, they had three children before Browne ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America more books like this by Xavier de Souza Briggs (Editor), William Julius Wilson (Foreword by) add to wishlist This timely book shows how unequal housing choices and sprawling development create an unequal geography of opportunity. The contributors-- policy analysts, political observers, social scientists, and urban planners-- document key patterns, their consequences, and how we can respond, taking a hard look at both successes and failures of the past. see all copies from £20.09! new only from £20.09!
7	Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness more books like this by Brendan O'Flaherty add to wishlist Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty, public housing a shambles: as attempts to explain homelessness multiply so do the homeless - and we still don't know why. This is a story about markets, not about the bad habits or pathology of individuals. One perplexing fact is that, though homelessness ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £15.48! \| first editions
8	Housing Policy in Europe more books like this by Paul N Balchin (Editor) add to wishlist This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the economic, political and social issues of housing across the continent. The changing policy and practice of housing in fifteen countries from across Northern, Western, Southern and Central Europe are described, analysed and compared. The book explains why different systems of tenure are ... see all copies from £2.22! new only from £29.11!
9	Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes more books like this by Allan D Wallis add to wishlist In 'Wheel Estate', Allan Wallis offers a lively and informative history of the mobile home in the United States over six decades. His colorful account, extensively illustrated with period photographs and vivid portraits of the people who live in mobile homes and the industry pioneers who designed and built them, will inform and amuse anyone ... see all copies from £8.04! new only from £12.08! \| first editions
10	Housing Contemporary Ireland: Policy, Society and Shelter more books like this by Michelle Norris (Editor), Declan Redmond (Editor) add to wishlist The period since the mid-1990s is distinguished by radical change in the housing sector in Ireland. During this time, house prices rose at an unprecedented rate. Between 1993 and 2003 the average price of a new house in the State increased by 220 per cent. Private rents also grew and waiting lists for social housing lengthened. At the same time, ... see all copies from £24.46! new only from £24.46! \| first editions
11 view cover	Introduction to Social Housing more books like this by Paul Reeves add to wishlist The provision and management of social housing for those who are unable to access the housing market is essential to the maintenance of the fabric of society. The social housing industry is vast and still growing. There are very few countries in the world where some form of subsidised housing does not exist, and the total number of social homes is ... see all copies from £2.90! new only from £19.03!
12 view cover	The Homeless more books like this by Tamara L Roleff add to wishlist see all copies from £4.95! new only from £34.98!
13 view cover	Directions in Housing Policy: Towards Sustainable Housing Policies for the UK more books like this by Peter Williams add to wishlist The United Kingdom is now at a crossroads in terms of its housing policies. Homes remain costly and in short supply, and there is a growing issue of disrepair. At the same time, the resources made available from government have been reduced. Directions in Housing Policy provides a clear and authoritative examination of housing policy, its past, ... see all copies from £1.28! new only from £22.40!
14 view cover	Housing Policy and Economic Power: The Political Economy of Owner Occupation more books like this by Michael Ball add to wishlist see all copies from £2.18! new only from £28.28!
15	Excluded Americans more books like this by Tudker, William Tucker add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £22.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	Challenging Uneven Development: An Urban Agenda for the 1990s more books like this by Philip Nyden, Wim Wiewel add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.87!
17 view cover	Affordable Housing and Urban Redevelopment in the United States: Learning from Failure and Success more books like this by Dr. Willem Van Vliet (Editor) add to wishlist Exploring the lessons that can be drawn from the United States's experience in providing affordable, low-cost housing, this book reviews recent developments in the US regarding such provision. Topics covered include: the changing role of the federal government; greater responsibility of state and local government; and innovative financial ... see all copies from £5.86! new only from £41.03!
18 view cover	The People's Home: Social Rented Housing in Europe and America more books like this by Michael Harloe add to wishlist "This is a big book in every sense: spirit, vision and coverage. It is an impressive piece of scholarship which will become a marker for all studies of housing and related policy issues. This is the first really comprehensive attempt to discuss the history of housing policy issues in the context of the political and economic processes of the last ... see all copies from £9.87! new only from £28.67!
19 view cover	Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless more books like this by James D Wright, Joel A Devine, Beth A Rubin add to wishlist Beside the Golden Door relates the story of homelessness through the middle 1990s, advancing the thesis that an emphasis on factors such as mental illness or substance abuse is descriptively accurate but fails as a causal account of the rise of homelessness as a social problem. aBoth the content and style of this book make an excellent instructive ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £15.50!
20 view cover	Ending the Stalemate: Moving Housing and Urban Development Into the Mainstream of America's Future more books like this by Mary K Nenno add to wishlist This text assesses the housing and urban development programmes of the past 60 years. It examines current urban conditions and interventions, and recommends steps that should be taken to link housing assistance, neighbourhood renewal and urban development/re-devlopment with the forces shaping urban life. The author has found that past housing and ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £29.06! \| first editions
21 view cover	Planning, Public Policy & Property Markets more books like this by David Adams (Editor), Craig Watkins (Editor), Michael White (Editor) add to wishlist The focus of this book is on how public policy - and especially the planning system - both shapes and reflects the essential characteristics of land and property markets. It challenges the common misconceptions that property markets operate in isolation from public policy and that planning permission is the only significant form of state ... see all copies from £63.09! new only from £63.09!
22 view cover	Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable more books like this by Edward L Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko add to wishlist Despite the recent drop in house prices, housing remains unaffordable for many ordinary Americans. Particularly along the coasts, housing remains extremely expensive. In Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable, Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko explain why housing is so expensive in some areas and outline ... see all copies from £9.11! new only from £9.11!
23 view cover	Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era more books like this by Gail Radford add to wishlist The basic shape of American federal policy in housing as in many other areas, was determined during the New Deal, but not without conflict among movements and intellectuals advocating alternative directions. One of these was "modern housing" - a set of proposals for a radical rethinking of homes and neighbourhoods. Supporters of this approach ... see all copies from £7.24! new only from £14.72! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Social Structures of the Economy more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Chris Turner (Translator) add to wishlist Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre ... see all copies from £15.92! new only from £16.72!
25	The Environmental Protection Hustle more books like this by Bernard J Frieden add to wishlist No one likes ticky-tacky houses spread all over the landscape and invading the suburbs, least of all the people who already live there. But are environmentalists and suburbanites right when they object? Bernard Frieden, Professor of Urban Planning at MIT, doesn't think so. At least not when their objections take the form that they have in northern ... see all copies from £1.28! signed copies \| first editions

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