Nineteen well-known fair housing and fair lending advocates and organizers examine the implications of the new wave of fair housing activism generated by Occupy Wall Street protests and the many successes achieved in fair housing and fair lending over the years. The book reveals the limitations...

1 Housing Affordability Crisis: The United States -- 2 Homelessness, Housing Public Policy and Urban Planning -- 3 The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Program -- 4 The Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Program -- 5 Housing the Homeless -- 6 Financial Feasibility Analysis: Planning for the...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Housing affordability -- Housing segregation and discrimination -- Homelessness -- Homeownership and home financing -- Housing development, planning, and the environment -- Conclusion -- Figures

Inequality and the urban growth machine -- A global problem of affordability -- This land is your land -- History of public investment in housing -- Finance and financialization -- Limitations of land-use planning -- Rebuilding the divided house.

"In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-class status. It has played this role in American life for almost a century, and as a result, homeownership's centrality to Americans' economic lives has come to seem natural and inevitable. But this state of...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. government closely regulated the single-family housing finance system. The regulation manifested itself in a highly specialized system with four notable characteristics: portfolio restrictions against investments in corporate assets, tax inducements to invest...

Governments throughout the world intervene heavily in housing markets, and most have multiple policies to pursue multiple goals. This chapter deals with two of the largest types of housing policies in the United States, namely, low-income rental assistance and policies to promote homeownership...