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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living
List of contents
Introduction; I: Politics; 1: Social Class and Housing Reform; 2: The Homebuilders’ Lobby; 3: The Rise of Tenant Organizations; 4: Boardwalk and Park Place; 5: Beyond URLTA; 6: Alternative Strategies for the Urban Ghetto; 7: The Case Against Urban Desegregation; 8: The Courts and Desegregated Housing; 9: Public Housing; 10: The Politics of Housing; II: Social Aspects; 11: The Balanced Community; 12: Equal Status, Housing Integration, and Racial Prejudice; 13: The Effects of Poor Housing; 14: An Alternative to a Density Function Definition of Overcrowding; 15: Determinism by the Urban Environment; 16: Fear and the House-as-Haven in the Lower Class; 17: Environmental Preferences of Future Housing Consumers; III: Economics; 18: The Journey to-Work as a Determinant of Residential Location; 19: A Competitive Theory of the Housing Market; 20: The Determinants of Dwelling-Unit Condition; 21: Effect of Housing Market Segregation on Urban Development; 22: An Economic Analysis of Property Values and Race (Laurenti); 23: The Ghetto Makers; 24: The New Regulation Comes the Suburbs; 25: Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending; IV: Production; 26: The Causes of Recent Instability in the Housing Sector; 27: Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; 28: Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production; 29: Efficiency in the Construction Industry; 30: Regulatory Barriers to the Diffusion of Innovation: Some Evidence from Building Codes; 31: Restrictive Union Practices; 32: Reducing the Cost of New Construction; 33: Trade Union Discrimination in the Pittsburgh Construction Industry; 34: Federal Income Taxation and Urban Housing; V: Policies and Programs; 35: The Bias of American Housing Policy; 36: Federal Housing Policy: A Political-Economic Analysis; 37: The Social Utility of Rent Control; 38: Public Housing and the Poor; 39: Section 235 of the National Housing Act: Homeownership for Low-income Families?; 40: Housing Assistance for Low- and Moderate-Income Families; 41: A Summary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program; 42: Using the Lessons of Experience to Allocate Resources in the Community Development Program; 43: Neighborhood Revitalization; The Experience and the Promise; 44: Effects of the Property Tax in Urban Areas; 45: Municpal Housing Code Enforcement and Low-Income Tenants; 46: How to Understand a Subsidized-Honsing Syndication; 47: The Private Sector and Community Development: A Cautious Proposal; 48: Toward a New Federal Housing Policy; 49: The Lessons of Pruitt-Igoe; 50: Income Strategy and Housing Supply; 51: Housing and Public Policy Analysis
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Chester Hartman
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living
