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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100754677206

ISBN-139780754677208

eBay Product ID (ePID)74269078

Product Key Features

Number of Pages302 Pages

Publication NameAffordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHousing & Urban Development, Real Estate / General, Public Policy / Social Policy, Jurisprudence

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

AuthorNestor M. Davidson

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, Business & Economics

SeriesLaw, Property and Society Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight24.1 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2009-011267

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal344.73/063635

Table Of ContentContents: Editor's preface; Affordable housing and the conflict of competing goods: a policy dilemma, Michael Diamond; Our pluralist housing ethics and public-private partnerships for affordable housing, Tim Iglesias; The value of lawyering in affordable housing transactions, Nestor M. Davidson; Another model of low income housing tax credit development: building housing and building capacity, Michael Diamond; The national housing trust fund: a challenge and an opportunity for creative public-private partnerships, Peter W. Salisich Jr; Putting community equity in community development: resident equity participation in urban redevelopment, Barbara Bezdek; Constructing the social impact statement to measure the full cost to public housing tenants of urban renewal, Susan D. Bennett; Home ownership, debt and default: the affective value of home and the challenge of affordability, Lorna Fox O'Mahoney; Accessible housing and affordability, Robin Paul Malloy; Managing the risks of natural disasters in public housing, James Charles Smith; Table of cases; Bibliography; Index.

SynopsisIn this book, leading experts on housing law and policy come together to focus attention on the critical need for affordable housing, address key issues of concern, and suggest appropriate responses for future action. Specific subjects discussed include the real estate aspects of affordable housing law and policy; access to housing; housing finance and affordability; land use; housing regulation; and housing issues in a post-Katrina context., With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention on this critical need, as leading experts on affordable housing law and policy come together to address key issues of concern and to suggest appropriate responses for future action. They focus in particular on how best to understand and implement the joint work of public and private actors in housing, and their specific subjects include the real estate aspects of affordable housing law and policy; access to housing; housing finance and affordability; land use; housing regulation; and housing issues in a post-Katrina context. This book fills a critical gap in the scholarly literature, and will be of interest to policy-makers, academics, lawyers, and students of housing, land use, real estate, property, community development, and urban planning., With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention on this critical need, as leading experts on affordable housing law and policy come together to address key issues of concern and to suggest appropriate responses for future action. Focusing in particular on how best to understand and implement the joint work of public and private actors in housing, this book considers the real estate aspects of affordable housing law and policy, access to housing, housing finance and affordability, land use, housing regulation and housing issues in a post-Katrina context. Filling a critical gap in the scholarly literature available, this book will be of particular interest to policy-makers, academics, lawyers and students of housing, land use, real estate, property, community development and urban planning

LC Classification NumberKF5730.A38 2009