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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael StonePublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781566390927ISBN 10: 1566390923 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 27 June 1993 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: What Is Shelter Poverty? 1. Human Needs and Housing Affordability 2. The Shelter-Poverty Concept of Affordability Part II: Why Does Shelter Poverty Exist and Persist? 3. The Historical Roots of the Affordability Problem to the Early 1930s 4. The Triumph and Illusions of Housing Policy and the Economy, 1930-1970 5. Economic Crisis, Shelter Poverty, and Housing Programs, 1970 to the Early 1990s 6. The Instability of Housing Production and Finance Since the Late 1960s Part III: How Can Shelter Poverty Be Overcome? 7. Social Ownership 8. Financing and Implementing Social Ownership 9. Housing Reform with a Vision: Ownership and Production 10. Housing Reform with a Vision: Financing and Other Elements 11. Housing Affordability and Social change 12. Conclusion: Shelter Poverty and the Right to Housing Appendix A: Methods and Issues in Deriving the Shelter-Poverty Affordability Standard Appendix B: Determining the Extent and Distribution of Housing Affordability Problems: Methodological Comments Appendix C: Tables of Shelter Poverty and Conventional Affordability Problems, 1970-1991 Notes References IndexReviews...the most original-and profoundly disturbing-work on the critical issue of housing affordability.... -Chester Hartman, President, Poverty and Race Research Action Council Stone identifies many housing reform policies on the way to a right-to-housing that have been enacted at the federal, state and local levels. This gives hope that incremental changes, largely at the grassroots level, may eventually form the basis for more progressive, systematic changes at the national level when a political constituency for such change emerges. -Shelterforce Online ...the most original--and profoundly disturbing--work on the critical issue of housing affordability... --Chester Hartman, President, Poverty and Race Research Action Council Author InformationMichael E. Stone is Professor of Community Planning at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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