Rethinking Rental HousingTemple University Press, 1987 M12 30 - 296 pages In recent years, almost daily media attention has been focused on the plight of the homeless in cities across the United States. Drawing upon experiences in the U.S. and Europe, John Gilderbloom and Richard Appelbaum challenge conventional assumptions concerning the operation of housing markets and provide policy alternatives directed at the needs of low- and moderate-income families. Rethinking Rental Housing is a ground-breaking analysis that shows the value of applying a broad sociological approach to urban problems, one that takes into account the basic economic, social, and political dimensions of the urban housing crisis. |
Contents
Introduction and Overview | 3 |
Economic Social and Political Dimensions of the Rental Housing Crisis | 15 |
THE STRUCTURE OF RENTAL HOUSING MARKETS | 43 |
The Frictionless Market Conventional Explanations of the Determinants of Rent | 45 |
The Federal Government and National Housing Policy | 68 |
The Failure of Market Allocation Causes of High Housing Costs | 83 |
Local Supply Restraints and Housing Costs | 108 |
THE FUTURE OF NATIONAL HOUSING POLICY | 125 |
European Housing in the Postwar Period Some Lessons for US Policy | 150 |
Some Proposals for US Housing Policy | 181 |
CONCLUSIONS | 205 |
The Institutional Structure of Rental Housing Markets | 207 |
Notes | 225 |
References | 241 |
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