A Decent Home
by Mallach, AlanFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-06-15
Publisher(s): Amer Planning Assn
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Summary
As more and more families lose their homes to foreclosure, affordable housing is very much in the public eye. Across the country, lawmakers and community development organizations scramble to create affordable, decent places to live for the millions in need. Yet affordable housing remains poorly understood and widely controversial, with even experienced professionals finding it difficult to navigate the maze of legal and financial complications that surround it. WithA Decent Home, housing expert Alan Mallach disentangles the issues and breaks down the jargon, offering professionals and educated laypersons a comprehensive picture of what affordable housing is, how it works, and how it is planned and developed. Mallach examines the most important issues and controversies surrounding affordable housingincluding social, economic, and political considerationsand provides readers with the information and insight to develop thoughtful, responsible opinions about an issue that is hotly contested both nationally and in individual communities around the nation.
Author Biography
Alan Mallach is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and a senior fellow at the National Housing Institute in Montclair, New Jersey. He is the author of many books and articles on urban planning, housing, and community development.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| The Case for Affordable Housing | p. 1 |
| The Need for Decent Housing | p. 2 |
| Affordable Housing Needs and the Private Market | p. 10 |
| Is Affordable Housing a Housing Problem or an Income Problem? | p. 17 |
| Conclusion | p. 25 |
| Affordable Housing in the United States: A Short History | p. 29 |
| Beginnings | p. 29 |
| The Rise and Fall of Public Housing | p. 33 |
| Federal Funding, Private Ownership | p. 37 |
| The Age of Devolution | p. 44 |
| Affordable Housing Policy Today | p. 47 |
| Designing Affordable Housing | p. 53 |
| Why Design Matters | p. 53 |
| Housing for Whom? | p. 57 |
| Housing That Works for People | p. 60 |
| Cars, People, and Open Space | p. 65 |
| Safe Spaces | p. 69 |
| Designing Housing That Fits In | p. 72 |
| Finding Sites and Gaining Approval for Affordable Housing | p. 79 |
| Criteria for Selecting Sites | p. 79 |
| Good Sites Are Hard to Find | p. 85 |
| Getting Projects Approved | p. 89 |
| Making the Numbers Work: Financing Affordable Housing | p. 101 |
| Defining Affordability | p. 102 |
| Filling the Gap | p. 106 |
| Capital Grants and Tax Credit Equity | p. 112 |
| Putting the Pieces Together: Subsidy Layering and the Development Pro Forma | p. 123 |
| Developing Affordable Housing, Step-by-Step | p. 133 |
| Thinking the Project Through | p. 135 |
| Forming the Development Team-Finding a Site | p. 137 |
| The Predevelopment Process | p. 140 |
| Construction, Marketing, and Rent-Up | p. 146 |
| Concentration and Opportunity: Undoing the Exclusion of Affordable Housing | p. 157 |
| The Practice of Suburban Exclusion | p. 158 |
| Challenging Exclusion in the Courts | p. 162 |
| State Planning Laws and Affordable Housing Mandates | p. 165 |
| Conclusion | p. 174 |
| Affordable Housing, Community Development Corporations, and Neighborhood Revitalization | p. 177 |
| Affordable Housing and Poverty Concentration | p. 179 |
| The Role of Community Development Corporations | p. 186 |
| Toward Communities of Choice | p. 191 |
| Balancing Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization | p. 195 |
| The Risks and Rewards of Affordable Home Ownership | p. 207 |
| Home Ownership-The American Dream | p. 207 |
| The Costs and Benefits of Home Ownership | p. 212 |
| Public and Nonprofit Strategies to Foster Lower Income Home Ownership | p. 217 |
| Low-income Home Ownership and the Subprime Meltdown | p. 228 |
| Preserving Affordable Housing | p. 239 |
| Preservation: A Critical Issue | p. 239 |
| The Problem of Expiring Use Restrictions | p. 242 |
| Preserving Affordable Home Ownership | p. 246 |
| Preserving Affordability in the Private Market | p. 254 |
| Homelessness and Affordable Housing | p. 263 |
| Who Are the Homeless? | p. 264 |
| Why Are So Many People Homeless? | p. 267 |
| Changing Approaches to Housing the Homeless | p. 272 |
| Affordable Housing and Housing First | p. 279 |
| Inclusionary Housing: Using the Market to Create Affordable Housing | p. 285 |
| What Is Inclusionary Housing? | p. 286 |
| The Legal Status of Inclusionary Housing | p. 292 |
| Economics of Inclusionary Housing | p. 295 |
| Making Inclusionary Housing Work | p. 300 |
| Policies, Politics, and the Future of Affordable Housing in the United States | p. 311 |
| Drivers of Housing Policy Change | p. 312 |
| Shaping Future Affordable Housing Policy | p. 319 |
| Appendix: Resources for Further Information | p. 347 |
| Index | p. 365 |
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