ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies.
This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section 1|26 pages
Right to Housing
chapter 2|12 pages
A Home Away From Home
section Section 2|66 pages
Inequality
chapter 5|8 pages
Should Policy Seek to Interfere With Upward Mobility by Deconcentrating Poverty?
chapter 6|16 pages
The Affordable Housing Complex
section Section 3|25 pages
Homeownership
section Section 4|44 pages
Rental Housing
chapter 12|16 pages
Accommodating and Accumulating
section Section 5|57 pages
Social Housing
chapter 14|18 pages
The Privatization of American Public Housing
section Section 6|54 pages
Senior Housing
chapter 20|12 pages
Designed for All Ages
section Section 7|61 pages
Gentrification
chapter 22|15 pages
Preventing Gentrification-Induced Displacement in the U.S.
chapter 23|13 pages
Urban Restructuring, Demolition, and Displacement in the Netherlands
chapter 24|14 pages
State-Sponsored Gentrification or Social Regeneration?
section Section 8|27 pages
Suburbs
chapter 25|10 pages
Housing Policy and the Suburban Metropolis
chapter 26|15 pages
A New Generation of “Single-Family” Homes
section Section 9|43 pages
The Future of Housing