Revisiting rental housing policies, programs, and priorities /

"Reviews the contributing factors and primary problems generated by the operation of rental markets. Dissects how policies and programs have--or have not--dealt with the primary challenges, what improvements--if any--have been gained, and the lessons learned in the process. Looks to potential n...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Harvard University. Joint Center for Housing Studies., ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Retsinas, Nicolas Paul, 1946-, Belsky, Eric S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
Series:James A. Johnson metro series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : why rental housing is the neglected child of American shelter / Anthony Downs
  • Overview : rental housing challenges and policy responses / Eric S. Belsky and Rachel Bogardus Drew
  • Where poor renters live in our cities : dynamics and determinants / Stuart S. Rosenthal
  • The costs of concentrated poverty : neighborhod property markets and the dynamics of decline / George C. Galster, Jackie M. Cutsinger, and Ron Malega
  • Spillovers and subsidized housing : the impact of subsidized rental housing on neighborhoods / Ingrid Gould Ellen
  • Designing subsidized rental housing programs : what have we learned? / Jill Khadduri and Charles Wilkins
  • Subsidized housing and employment : building evidence of what works / James A. Riccio - From hurdles to bridges : local land-use regulations and the pursuit of affordable rental housing / Rolf Pendall
  • Capital for small rental properties : preserving a vital housing resource / William C. Apgar and Shekar Narasimhan
  • Just suppose : housing subsidies for low-income renters / John M. Quigley
  • Rethinking U.S. rental housing policy : a new bluepring for federal, state, and local action / Bruce Katz and Margery Austin Turner.