The Federal Government and Urban Housing

Author:   R. Allen Hays
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Third Edition
ISBN:  

9781438441665


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 May 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   R. Allen Hays
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Third Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781438441665


ISBN 10:   1438441665
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Third Edition 1. Power, Ideology, and Public Policy 2. The Ideological Framework for Housing Policy 3. Housing and Human Needs 4. Federal Housing Assistance from the Depression to the Moratorium: 1934-1973 5. New Directions in Housing Assistance: 1973-1980 6. The Federal Role in Community Development 7. Retrenchment and Recovery: Reagan and George H. W. Bush 8. Stagnation and Progress: The Clinton Era 9. Housing in the Twenty-first Century References Index

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"""...a very solid and useful book ... Overall, this book is worth reading for anyone interested in US housing policy."" - Housing Studies ""...well written and tightly focused on a highly relevant policy area. Students and policy makers alike will benefit from reading this welcome addition to the literature ... Highly recommended."" - CHOICE Praise for the First Edition ""...a thorough analysis of federal intervention in the U.S. housing market from the 1930s."" - American Political Science Review ""Hays's treatment of the complex history of housing and community-development programs is accurate, thoroughly documented, and concise ... [it] is a very good book which can easily serve as a basic reader for courses in housing and community development."" - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management"


...a very solid and useful book ... Overall, this book is worth reading for anyone interested in US housing policy. - Housing Studies ...well written and tightly focused on a highly relevant policy area. Students and policy makers alike will benefit from reading this welcome addition to the literature ... Highly recommended. - CHOICE Praise for the First Edition ...a thorough analysis of federal intervention in the U.S. housing market from the 1930s. - American Political Science Review Hays's treatment of the complex history of housing and community-development programs is accurate, thoroughly documented, and concise ... [it] is a very good book which can easily serve as a basic reader for courses in housing and community development. - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management


""...a very solid and useful book ... Overall, this book is worth reading for anyone interested in US housing policy."" - Housing Studies ""...well written and tightly focused on a highly relevant policy area. Students and policy makers alike will benefit from reading this welcome addition to the literature ... Highly recommended."" - CHOICE Praise for the First Edition ""...a thorough analysis of federal intervention in the U.S. housing market from the 1930s."" - American Political Science Review ""Hays's treatment of the complex history of housing and community-development programs is accurate, thoroughly documented, and concise ... [it] is a very good book which can easily serve as a basic reader for courses in housing and community development."" - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management


Author Information

R. Allen Hays is Director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author of Who Speaks for the Poor? and editor of Ownership, Control, and the Future of Housing Policy.

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