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The Affordable Housing Reader by Elizabeth J. Mueller; J. Rosie Tighe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Affordable Housing Reader about?

This second edition of __The Affordable Housing Reader__ provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color. The authors highlighted in this updated volume address themes central to housing as an area of social policy and to understanding its particular meaning in the United States. These include the long history of racial exclusion and the role that public policy has played in racializing access to decent housing and well-serviced neighborhoods; the tension between the economic and social goals of housing policy; and the role that housing plays in various aspects of the lives of low- and moderate-income residents. Scholarship and the COVID-19 pandemic are raising awareness of the link between access to adequate housing and other rights and opportunities. This timely reader focuses attention on the results of past efforts and on the urgency of reframing the conversation. It is both an exciting time to teach students about the evolution of United States’ housing policy and a challenging time to disc

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Elizabeth J. Mueller; J. Rosie Tighe
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9780203722671
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Architecture, Sociology, Management

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