By: Elizabeth D. Huttman (Editor), Willem Van Vliet (Editor), Willem van Vliet-- (Editor)

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Because housing is a multidisciplinary, fragmented field of research, investigators are faced with the difficult task of pulling together information scattered in a wide variety of narrowly focused sources. In this volume, comprehensive, current knowledge encompassing the field as a whole is offered for the first time. Twenty-eight specialists in the major subdisciplines provide up-to-date information on the social, economic, environmental, policy, and architectural dimensions of housing and the built environment, together with extensive bibliographies for each topic. Creating a comprehensive framework for study and research in the field, this handbook will be helpful to planners, architects, developers, and citizens groups in addition to academics in promoting better understanding of the broader issues of housing.

?Housing affects every person in one way or another, and the interdisciplinary nature of housing research is emphasized throughout this compilation of work by many authors. The first section of the book deals with general societal housing issues including neighborhood quality and residential crowding. Housing affordability is the focus of the second part of the book, with discussions of home financing and rental housing. Public housing, rent control, and tax subsidies are some of the subjects covered in the section on housing subsidy programs, leading into several chapters on housing needs of special populations. This book concludes with a discussion of issues such as gentrification and urban renewal.?-Journal of Planning Literature

Foreword
Introduction
The Context of Housing
The Societal Function of Hoursing
Neighborhood Quality: A Description and Analysis of Indicators
The Townhouse: A Basis for Community by Suzanne Keller Design of the Built Environment: Issues of Knowledge Generation and Utilization
ResidentialCrowding in the United States: A Review of Research
Supply, Demand, and Affordability of Housing Affordability of Housing
Private Rental Housing by Michael Harloe Home Finance: Buying and Keeping in a Changing Financial Environment
Heisler Cooperative and Condominium Conversions
Housing Subsidy Programs and Tenant Concerns Housing Subsidy Strategies in the United States: A Typology
Public Housing in the United States
Tax Subsidies: Their Effect on the Rate of Homeownership
The Housing Allowance as a Subsidy Approach
Tenants' Movements in the United States
Groups with Special Housing Needs Women's Housing and Neighbor-hood Needs by Karen Franck Minorities and Housing Discrimination
The Housing and Living Arrangements of Young People in the United States
The Elderly and Housing
The Problem of Homelessnes in the United States
Huch Housing in Urban, Suburban, and New Communities
The Traditional American Suburban House and Envirnment: Social Effects
Urban Redevelopment
New Communities in the United States
Prospects and Issues in United States Housing: A Comment
Indexes
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ISBN: 9780313248740
ISBN-10: 0313248745
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 506
Published: 21st November 1988
Publisher: ABC-Clio
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.88