Housing law Books
NUS Press The Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The
Book SynopsisExamines the ways Singapore’s impressive public housing program is central to the political legitimacy of the city-state’s single-party regime, and the growing contradictions of its success. The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the People's Action Party began to deliver on its promises. By the 1980s, 85% of the population had been rehoused in modern flats. Now, decades later, the provision of public housing shapes Singapore's environment. The standard accounts of this remarkable transformation leave many questions unanswered, from the historical to urgent matters of current policy. Why was housing such a priority in the 1960s? How did the provision of social welfare via public housing shape Singapore's industrialization and development over the last 50 years? Looking forward, can the HDB continue to be both a source of affordable housing for young families and a mechanism for retirement savings? What will happen when 99-year leases expire?Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation is a culmination of Chua Beng Huat's study of Singapore's public housing system, its dynamics, and the ways it functions in Singapore's politics. The book will be of interest to citizens and to scholars of the political economy of Asian development, social welfare provision, and Singapore.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Why Singapore Prioritizes Public Housing?Chapter Two: Current State of Housing Provision Across Different SystemsChapter Three: The National Public Housing ProgramChapter Four: From Necessary Accommodation to Market CommodityChapter Five: Public Housing as Retirement AssetChapter Six: Residual Housing for Residual PeopleChapter Seven: Politics and Public Housing Ownership: From Clients to Entitled Citizens of the StateBibliographyIndex
£26.31
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Servants of the Damned
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£15.19
Columbia University Press How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and
Book SynopsisFocusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.Trade ReviewPaige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful real estate developers long before the era of mass suburbanization. An essential text for understanding and grappling with the inequalities embedded within today’s metropolitan landscapes. -- Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaThis book is a remarkable achievement. Glotzer tells an eye-opening story about how real estate developers shaped a racially segregated Baltimore—and through their influence and example, the larger United States. By following the paper trail, we learn that racially prejudiced homeowners and government policymakers were not solely to blame, but rather were operating with a rulebook written by capitalist real estate interests who tied profits to racial exclusion for more than a century. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeIn How the Suburbs Were Segregated, Glotzer offers a fresh and original history of suburban real estate development. Uncovering land ownership patterns and financing strategies in north Baltimore since the early nineteenth century, Glotzer tells the story of racial exclusion and residential segregation as it has never been told. -- Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the BayGlotzer tackles a complicated subject with nuance and an attention to detail that is remarkable. While there are many highly acclaimed books on the history of housing segregation and racial exclusion in suburbia, none of these have approached the topic from the perspective of developers and capital investors, much less followed the money, in the way Glotzer has. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Flows2. Infrastructure3. Boundaries4. Standards5. Policies6. AdaptationsConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and
Book SynopsisFocusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.Trade ReviewPaige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful real estate developers long before the era of mass suburbanization. An essential text for understanding and grappling with the inequalities embedded within today’s metropolitan landscapes. -- Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaThis book is a remarkable achievement. Glotzer tells an eye-opening story about how real estate developers shaped a racially segregated Baltimore—and through their influence and example, the larger United States. By following the paper trail, we learn that racially prejudiced homeowners and government policymakers were not solely to blame, but rather were operating with a rulebook written by capitalist real estate interests who tied profits to racial exclusion for more than a century. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeIn How the Suburbs Were Segregated, Glotzer offers a fresh and original history of suburban real estate development. Uncovering land ownership patterns and financing strategies in north Baltimore since the early nineteenth century, Glotzer tells the story of racial exclusion and residential segregation as it has never been told. -- Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the BayGlotzer tackles a complicated subject with nuance and an attention to detail that is remarkable. While there are many highly acclaimed books on the history of housing segregation and racial exclusion in suburbia, none of these have approached the topic from the perspective of developers and capital investors, much less followed the money, in the way Glotzer has. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Flows2. Infrastructure3. Boundaries4. Standards5. Policies6. AdaptationsConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£21.25
MIT Press Ltd What a City Is For MIT Press Remaking the
Book SynopsisAn investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space—not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina—the one major Black neighborhood in Portland—has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. S
£16.19
Little Brown and Company Plundered
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£24.38
Faber & Faber Property
Book SynopsisA powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain, it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don't. Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon in India, of the struggles to form Black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the impacts of Margaret Thatcher's property-owning democracy. Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes as investments and it offers hope for how things could be bett
£13.49
Princeton University Press The Voucher Promise
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Paul Davidoff Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Social Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association""An engaging read. Most compellingly, Rosen offers a moving psychological portrait of her interlocutors, revealing how people cope with neighborhood change and reconcile limited opportunities and chronic disappointments."---Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader"Rosen’s ethnographic study helps to correct a weak point in the literature on the HCV program. . . . The Voucher Promise provides a look at the HCV program from many perspectives including the participating voucher households and the renter households not lucky enough to receive a voucher. The book studies the landlords who choose to participate as well as those who do not. Finally, the book explores the households, especially long-term homeowners, who populate the neighborhoods where the HCV voucher households locate. This mix of perspectives is the strength of the book."---Kirk McClure, Social Forces"This work, although a valuable contribution to the sociology literature, is also an important book for urban planners and policy scholars and practitioners. Rosen has managed the difficult task of creating rigorous research that is highly critical of an important federal program but at the same time recognized how vital the program is to the lives of so many economically fragile families. . . . a must read for anyone interested in housing markets and housing policy. It is refreshingly well written and at the same time highly substantive."---Dan Immergluck, Journal of the American Planning Association"A fine study with important insights for scholars and practitioners, regardless of their disciplinary leanings. Readers may find themselves comparing [The Voucher Promise] favorably to the highly acclaimed Evicted: Poverty and Poverty in the American City by Matthew Desmond."---Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Planning Education and Research"[Rosen] bring[s] to the table workable and much needed suggestions for changes to a flawed policy."---Lisa Lucile Owens, Critical Sociology"The Voucher Promise provides an informative, in-depth, and necessary look into the policy and practice of the HCV program clearly identifying a need to reassess the way it currently operates. . . . [A]n essential read for policymakers, urban sociologists, and scholars."---Jeanne Kimpel, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
£19.80
Princeton University Press The Voucher Promise
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Paul Davidoff Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Social Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association""An engaging read. Most compellingly, Rosen offers a moving psychological portrait of her interlocutors, revealing how people cope with neighborhood change and reconcile limited opportunities and chronic disappointments."---Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader"Rosen’s ethnographic study helps to correct a weak point in the literature on the HCV program. . . . The Voucher Promise provides a look at the HCV program from many perspectives including the participating voucher households and the renter households not lucky enough to receive a voucher. The book studies the landlords who choose to participate as well as those who do not. Finally, the book explores the households, especially long-term homeowners, who populate the neighborhoods where the HCV voucher households locate. This mix of perspectives is the strength of the book."---Kirk McClure, Social Forces"This work, although a valuable contribution to the sociology literature, is also an important book for urban planners and policy scholars and practitioners. Rosen has managed the difficult task of creating rigorous research that is highly critical of an important federal program but at the same time recognized how vital the program is to the lives of so many economically fragile families. . . . a must read for anyone interested in housing markets and housing policy. It is refreshingly well written and at the same time highly substantive."---Dan Immergluck, Journal of the American Planning Association"A fine study with important insights for scholars and practitioners, regardless of their disciplinary leanings. Readers may find themselves comparing [The Voucher Promise] favorably to the highly acclaimed Evicted: Poverty and Poverty in the American City by Matthew Desmond."---Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Planning Education and Research"[Rosen] bring[s] to the table workable and much needed suggestions for changes to a flawed policy."---Lisa Lucile Owens, Critical Sociology"The Voucher Promise provides an informative, in-depth, and necessary look into the policy and practice of the HCV program clearly identifying a need to reassess the way it currently operates. . . . [A]n essential read for policymakers, urban sociologists, and scholars."---Jeanne Kimpel, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
£16.19
University of Georgia Press NonPerforming Loans NonPerforming People Life
Book SynopsisTells the previously untold stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward housing justice.
£30.04
LUP - University of Georgia Press Imprisoned Interlocking Oppression in Law
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how foundational policies in American history continue to work to the detriment of Black Americans - tying the racist foundations of America to discrimination in our criminal justice system and neighbourhoods.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the study of racial and ethnic relations, Imprisoned will greatly assist readers in understanding the complexity of race relations in the United States. It also demonstrates that U.S. policing reform would need to consider entanglements with historically labeling black bodies as ‘criminal’ and the practice of segregating and patrolling black bodies very differently than any other racial and ethnic group in America." - Cameron D. Lippard, coeditor of Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality"Imprisoned makes an important contribution to the sociological literature on race and ethnicity, the criminal justice system, urban sociology, and racial residential segregation." - Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, coeditor of Intersectionality and Higher Education
£88.30
LUP - University of Georgia Press Imprisoned
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how foundational policies in American history continue to work to the detriment of Black Americans - tying the racist foundations of America to discrimination in our criminal justice system and neighbourhoods.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the study of racial and ethnic relations, Imprisoned will greatly assist readers in understanding the complexity of race relations in the United States. It also demonstrates that U.S. policing reform would need to consider entanglements with historically labeling black bodies as ‘criminal’ and the practice of segregating and patrolling black bodies very differently than any other racial and ethnic group in America." - Cameron D. Lippard, coeditor of Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality"Imprisoned makes an important contribution to the sociological literature on race and ethnicity, the criminal justice system, urban sociology, and racial residential segregation." - Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, coeditor of Intersectionality and Higher Education
£19.90
Fordham University Press Neighborhood Success Stories
Book SynopsisThis book illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today. The buildings were developed between 1975 and 1997.Table of ContentsForeword by Gale A. Brewer ix Foreword by Ruben Diaz, Jr. xi Part I: Overview 1 Housing Issues and Experiences 3 2 Getting Started at Settlement Housing Fund 11 Part II: A West Bronx Story 3 Walton and Townsend 19 4 Deciding to Own and Competing to Win 30 5 Collaborations and Battles 39 6 Here Come the Families 49 7 The Stucco Falls Off and the Playground Collapses 61 8 Finding Jack 67 9 Community Programs, Philosophy, and Achievements 76 10 New Settlement Community Campus: The Schools, Center, and Pool 83 11 A Few of the Families 103 12 New Settlement Today 127 Part III: A Tale of Two Bridges 13 Two Bridges: The Early Years 137 14 Two Bridges Houses 143 15 Lands End I 152 16 Lands End II 163 17 The Pathmark 172 18 Two Bridges Townhouses 180 19 Two Bridges Senior Housing 187 20 Two Bridges Tower 195 21 The Future for Two Bridges 213 Part IV: Looking Ahead 22 Lessons and Recommendations 219 Appendix: List of Federal, State, and Local Programs 243 Acknowledgments 247 Index 249
£18.89
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary The
Book SynopsisArgues that acknowledging the Portland growth boundary in 1979 was the most significant decision the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission has ever made, and, more broadly, is a significant milestone in American land-use planning.
£29.96
John Wiley & Sons Inc Defensible Space on the Move
Book SynopsisBoth theoretically informed and empirically rich,Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts. Critically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has beeninfluential in designing out crime to date, and has beenapplied to housing estates in the UK, North America, Europe and beyond Evaluates themovement/mobility/mobilisation of defensible spacefrom the US to the UK and into English housing policyandpractice Exploresthe multiple ways the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, as it circulated from national to local level and within particular English housing estates Critiquing and pushing forwards work on policy mobilities, the authors illustrate for the first time how transfer mechanisms worked at both a policy and practitioner level DrawiTrade Review‘Design against crime? What could be better! This compelling story of where ‘defensible space’ came from, how the idea has changed, and what difference it has made to cities and social life is unputdownable. It turns on a riveting account of the individuals who championed (and some who resisted) the concept – a band of unlikely influencers whose mix of conviction, charisma and common sense became embedded in domestic space.’Susan J. Smith, Mistress of Girton College and Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography, University of Cambridge, UK‘This book by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick is essentially a great detective story – a whodunnit of how allegedly research-based theory can translate into policy and ultimately into accepted practice. There is a cast of many well-known characters whose interaction on the question of whether physical determinism can affect human behaviour is rich and fascinating. With planning and urban design again at the centre of politics, this book is an essential source.’Ben Derbyshire, Chair of HTA Design LLP, Former Past President of RIBA and Historic England Commissioner‘Rarely do I savour a book with such enthusiasm, absorbed by the detail and delighted by the presentation. This is the missing text that I have craved – a text that explains, in meticulous detail, how the rather abstract concept of Defensible Space managed to jump the gap between theoretical and practical knowledge and successfully embed itself into practice.’Rachel Armitage, Professor of Criminology, University of Huddersfield, UK ‘Defensible Space on the Move is a fine historiography based on meticulous research and a forensic investigative approach to its subject matter. The book will appeal to a broad readership, including academic researchers, policy makers, students, and lay people. The book is seminal in its careful documentation, and discussion, of one of the more important ideas about what the good city is or ought to be. Through a careful assembling of material, the authors have elevated, and enhanced, the understanding about policy mobilities, in which the fluid, often contradictory, and messy nature of practice is highlighted.’Rob Imrie (reviewing in Buildings & Cities) Table of ContentsList of Figures vi List of Tables viii Glossary of Acronyms ix Series Editors’ Preface xi Acknowledgements xii Preface xiii 1 Defensible Space: An Introduction 1 2 Defensible Space Is Mobilised in England 32 3 Defensible Space Goes on Trial but Attracts Those in Power 64 4 Operationalising Defensible Space 102 Case Study ‘ The Mozart Estate: A Laboratory for Defensible Space’ 141 5 Evaluations of Defensible Space 156 6 The Uptake and Resilience of Defensible Space Ideas 187 7 Defensible Space: A Common Sense, Middle-range Theory 219 References 251 Index 279
£54.00
Arcadia Publishing Virginiahighland
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£19.99
University of Toronto Press Displacement City
Book SynopsisWhat can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on the homeless population in Toronto? Displacement City shares the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during this unprecedented crisis.Trade Review"Anyone who visited downtown Toronto during the pandemic knows the devastating and powerful impact it had on the city’s homeless. Outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe have a deep knowledge of the people behind the statistics and the headlines, and here create a better understanding of how policies affect people. In this powerful book, they have collected poetry, photography, essays that tell the stories of front-line workers, advocates, people who are unhoused. These include experiences living in the shelter system, displacement, the legacy of residential schools and the experience of the Indigenous population. A unique and powerful account." -- Deborah Dundas * Toronto Star *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction Cathy Crowe and Greg Cook Part I: We Are [Not] in This Together 1. “Displaced Again and Again and Again” Nikki Sutherland 2. The Housing Crisis and the Indian Residential School Legacy Blue Sky, Leaders from the Houseless Community, Sandra Campbell, and Leigh Kern 3. Inconvenient Bodies and Toronto’s History of Displacement Lorraine Lam and Greg Cook 4. Displaced There, Displaced Here Jenn McIntyre and Steve Meagher 5. Dystopian Realities Michael Eschbach Part II: Fighting Back 6. Responsibility Downloaded: How Drop-in Centres Stepped Up and Pushed Back during the Pandemic Diana McNally 7. Surviving COVID-19 in the Shelter System Brian Cleary 8. Social Murder: We Need More than Band Aids Roxie Danielson 9. Slipped through the Fingertips of the System? Greg Cook and Dredzz 10. The Toronto Encampment Support Network Fights Back Simone Schmidt with Photos by Jeff Bierk 11. Wish You Were Here Zoe Dodd 12. Fighting Ableism Jennifer Jewell Poem: Our Wilderness Zachary Grant 13. Palliative Care in a Pandemic Trevor McNally and Naheed Dosani Profile: Building Tiny Homeless Shelters Canadian Human Rights Commission Poem: Lord We Pray Zachary Grant Graphic by Michael D. Part III: COVID-19 in the Courts 14. In the Parks and in the Courts: The Legal Fight against Encampment Evictions A.J. Withers and Derrick Black 15. COVID-Life Sarah White 16. Two Metres Doug Johnson Hatlem, Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, and Geetha Philipupillai 17. Homelessness, Housing, and Human Rights Accountability Leilani Farha Poem: There Is a Development Proposed for This Site Zachary Grant Afterword Author Bios
£17.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Applying International and European
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of anti-discrimination law as it applies to housing law in Europe. It offers an important perspective in a field dominated by employment law studies, while drawing on concepts significant in that field as well. Legislative discussion looks at EU law, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter and related case law. The book goes further to examine United Nations human rights instruments and related practice of UN committees. This unique focus allows for a fuller understanding of anti-discrimination law’s implications, potential, and challenges.
£114.00
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Visualizing Density
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£35.70
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Visioning and Visualization – People, Pixels, and
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£25.50
Temple University Press,U.S. Rebuilding Low Income Housing
Book SynopsisA new strategy proposed for producing affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizationsTrade Review"A useful resource for planners an activist working on housing development. It provides a wealth of information about the positive and negative outcomes of various federal and local initiatives."—International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"[L]ittle work has been done to show that a community-based housing program is a viable alternative. Rachel Bratt's new book...fills this void nicely by giving a detailed account of the recent emergence of community-based housing programs....Bratt is perhaps the country's leading expert in this area....While the main emphasis of the book is on community-based housing programs, an additional plus is a critical review of the history of United States housing programs which I found illuminating and insightful."—Journal of Urban AffairsTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Housing Problems and Current Responses 2. Housing Programs and Housing Evaluations Part II: Traditional Federally Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs 3. The Public Housing Program 4. Publicly Subsidized Private Housing 5. CASE STUDY: Private versus Public Goals: Conflicting Interests in Resyndication 6. HUD and Low-Income Housing Programs 7. CASE STUDY: HUD's Property Disposition Policies and the Granite Properties Emily J. Morris, co-author Part III: The Past, Present, and Future of Community-Based Housing 8. An Overview and Assessment of the Community-Based Housing Strategy 9. CASE STUDY: Community-Based Housing Development at the Local Level: The Challenges Facing South Holyoke, Massachusetts Thomas M. Harden, co-author 10. Dilemmas of Community-Based Housing Development CASE STUDIES: Two Community Development Corporations Eric Bove, Phillip Brown, Peter Hollands, Sarah Snow, and John Thoma, case studies co-authors 11. Public Support for Community-Based Housing in Massachusetts 12. CASE STUDY: Institutionalizing Community-Based Housing Development: The Boston Housing Partnership Wendy Plotkin, co-author 13. Rebuilding a Low-Income Housing Policy Notes References Index
£27.90
Heyday Books Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired
Book SynopsisA bracing, original look at the connected histories of real estate, institutionalized racism, and our political polarizationA landmark history told with supreme narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors’ definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought. Gene Slater follows this story from inside the realtor profession, drawing on many industry documents that have remained unexamined until now. His book traces the increasingly aggressive ways realtors justified their practices, how they successfully weaponized the word “freedom” for their cause, and how conservative politicians have drawn directly from realtors’ rhetoric for the past several decades. Much of this story takes place in California, and Slater demonstrates why one of the very first all-white neighborhoods was in Berkeley, and why the state was the perfect place for Ronald Reagan’s political ascension.The hinge point in this history is Proposition 14, a largely forgotten but monumentally important 1964 ballot initiative. Created and promoted by California realtors, the proposition sought to uphold housing discrimination permanently in the state’s constitution, and a vast majority of Californians voted for it. This vote had explosive consequences—ones that still inform our deepest political divisions today—and a true reckoning with the history of American racism requires a closer look at the events leading up to it. Freedom to Discriminate shatters preconceptions about American segregation, and it connects many seemingly disparate aspects of the nation’s history in a novel and galvanizing way.Trade Review"Freedom to Discriminate is a thorough, searing indictment that reminds the reader of the historical forces that have shaped U.S. housing policy and illuminates a dark chapter that has largely, until now, remained in the shadows.”—Planetizen, selected as one of the top urban planning books of the year"In Freedom to Discriminate, Gene Slater, who has spent four decades as a consultant to states and municipalities on housing policy, makes a powerful case that California’s real estate brokers not only originated a system of residential segregation that became a model for the entire nation, but also effectively mobilized support for Proposition 14 by invoking the central idea in America’s political vocabulary: freedom. [...] Providing a template for opposition to an overbearing liberal state, Slater argues, the successful campaign for Proposition 14 laid the foundation for the rise of modern American conservatism."—Eric Foner, Los Angeles Review of Books"A book of housing history that is meticulously sourced, fast moving, and well argued."—Michael Lens, Journal of the American Planning Association“A searing account of how the professional gatekeepers of America’s neighborhoods—realtors—constructed and reconstructed the ideas that anchored the gates of residential segregation, as told by someone who spent a career trying to tear them down. Mining the largely unexcavated records of realtors themselves, many of them smoking guns, Freedom to Discriminate offers a critical perspective on the history of housing discrimination: how its ostensibly race-neutral defense helped shape American political conservatism and, ultimately, underpin the yawning contemporary racial wealth gap.”—Mark Brilliant, Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director, Program in American Studies, University of California, Berkeley“Slater’s richly researched and persuasive account of planned housing segregation in the United States opens the door to a shameful part of our history, the effects of which reverberate to this day. This work should be read by all who are interested in America’s current racial predicament.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, author of On Juneteenth“They told a Big Lie—that Black neighbors lower property values—then made it true. They forged an iron cage of legal and institutional restriction, then called it ‘individual choice.’ They invented an ‘American dream’ they systematically denied to millions of Americans. The endless resourcefulness of America’s real estate industry in building and maintaining a racist system in the twentieth century is an astonishment to behold. Slater tells the story with brilliance and clarity.”—Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland“A fascinating and timely look at how the seemingly innocuous idea of consumer choice can fuel insidious racism and discrimination. Slater’s rigorous analysis is an excellent addition to the history of the United States, before and after Martin Luther King implored the nation to dismantle its racial hierarchies.”—Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History“Although I’ve been writing about issues of racial justice much of my life, this remarkable book taught me things I didn’t know. Slater shows how the seldom-scrutinized real estate industry is as powerful as the police and the prison-industrial complex in denying Black Americans their rights.”—Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains“Revelatory. By reframing the segregation debate through the lens of the realtor lobby, Slater offers new insights into well-known practices and deepens our understanding of how property rights became sacred in California—with consequences that are all too evident today.”—Miriam Pawel, author of The Browns of California“This breathtaking book finds the demons of twenty-first century America not in our nation’s founding documents, but in our very own houses. Slater unearths the history of how California realtors—of all people—redefined the meaning of freedom in ways that still segregate and polarize the entire country today.”—Joe Mathews, California columnist and editor, Zócalo Public Square“Freedom to Discriminate shows us in lucid detail how the marketplace of property shapes the everyday economics of racism, and how the discourse of property enables the politics of racism.”—Tony Platt, author of Beyond These WallsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gettysburg 1964 Part One. Limiting Individual Freedom for the Common Good: Early 1900s–Early 1920s 1. Progressive Reformers of Real Estate 2. The Public Power of a Private Club 3. It’s the Restrictions on Your Neighbors Which Count 4. Implementing Racial Exclusion Part Two. An Ideology to Institutionalize Segregation: Early 1920s–Late 1940s 5. Undesirable Human Elements 6. Shaping Federal Housing Programs 7. Reconciling the War against Hitler with a New Racial Entitlement Part Three. Freedom of Association: Late 1940s–Late 1950s 8. Defending Racial Covenants 9. Recommitting to Segregation after Shelley 10. Using Freedom of Association to Intensify Segregation 11. The Idea of a National Conservative Party Part Four. Freedom of Choice: Late 1950s–June 1963 12. Struggling for an Ideology to Defend against Fair Housing 13. Creating a Standardized Ideology of Freedom Part Five. A National Crusade in California: June 1963–November 1964 14. A Constitutional Amendment to Permanently Protect Discrimination 15. Racial Moderation to Continue Segregation 16. Redefining Freedom and America’s Founding 17. A Battle between Two Visions of Freedom Part Six. An Earthquake: 1965–1968 18. Reagan and the Realtors 19. Realtor Victories against Fair Housing 20. To Defeat the Realtors 21. An Ideology of Freedom for a National Conservative Party Part Seven. American Legacy: 1969– 22. The Continuation of Residential Segregation 23. A Legacy for Civil Rights 24. Who American Freedom is for Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography and Works Cited About the Author
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Overview of Federal Housing Assistance Programs
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£139.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Housing Counseling: Types, Funding & Significance
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£106.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Homelessness in America: National Assessments
Book SynopsisThis book examines the extent and nature of the issue of homelessness in the u.s. the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 1.1 percent from 643,067 in January 2009 to 649,917 in January 2010. Discussed are the characteristics of persons experiencing homelessness, trends in shelters; the use of supportive housing programs; and homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing assistance.
£185.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc No One Home: Challenges & Costs of Vacant
Book SynopsisDuring the continuing foreclosure crisis and economic downturn, increased numbers of vacant residential properties are becoming vandalised or dilapidated, attracting crime, and contributing to neighbourhood decline in many communities across the country. Even though homeowners whose properties are being foreclosed upon may continue to occupy their properties until after a foreclosure sale occurs, many leave their homes during the foreclosure process. In addition, properties for which a new entity has assumed ownership through foreclosure may be vacant until the property is resold. This book explores the concern over the costs that foreclosed and unattended vacant homes are creating for local communities and the strategies state and local governments are using to address unattended vacant property problems and the challenges those governments face.
£106.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Housing Finance System in the United States
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£63.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Housing Administration's Insurance
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£63.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc Housing for Persons with HIV: Needs, Assistance,
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£131.19
Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Housing Assistance Programs for
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£155.99
American Bar Association The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing
Book SynopsisThe Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, Third Edition covers the most important areas of applicable law and provides a comprehensive overview of affordable housing laws. This continues to be a time of challenges for affordable housing, with the now-familiar mortgage and foreclosure crises resulting in a period of deep uncertainty and long-term adjustment. This timely third edition provides not only a past and future perspective from seasoned professionals, but also includes critical updates to all of the chapters from the second edition. New chapters have been added to address the greening of affordable housing, the unprecedented number of severely cost-burdened households and innovative state and local policy responses, and the mortgage crisis of 2008 and the rental crisis caused by COVID-19. The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development is a clearly written, practical resource for attorneys representing local governments (municipalities, counties, housing authorities, and redevelopment agencies), housing developers (both for-profit and nonprofit), investors, financial institutions, and populations eligible for housing. With substantial cross-referencing between chapters and an extensive index for quick access to on-point information, the guide is organized into three separate parts.
£132.75
American Bar Association The Historic Tax Credit
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£57.80
University of Nevada Press The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners'
Book SynopsisThe Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.
£32.21
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Planning Permission
Book SynopsisThe brand new title that sets out the law and practice of planning applications, appeals and challenges, particularly focussing on: -The need for planning permission and the concept of development -Permitted development rights -Applying for planning permission and the consideration of applications by local authorities -Planning appeals -The role of the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers -Planning permission granted by development orders Dealing with why planning permission is needed, how it is obtained by permitted development, planning applications and orders, this essential new title begins with the concept of development, the need for planning permission and permitted development rights. Planning applications are then considered at the local authority, appeal and call-in stages, with advice provided for developers, local authorities, interest groups and residents, setting out clearly how each can be involved in the process. High Court challenges are considered thoroughly. Finally, complex questions regarding the interpretation and implementation of each area of this process are discussed. What does it include? Planning Permission analyses the legal rules and caselaw, including the 2015 orders. Practical advice is given on making and responding to applications, dealing with planning committees, Ministerial interventions, appeals and call-ins. The operation of the Planning Court is also addressed from the practitioner’s perspective. Helpful appendices include the relevant parts of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the Development Management Procedure Order 2015, the General Permitted Development Order 2015, the Use Classes Order and the appeal rules and regulations. Contents: 1 Outline of the planning system and underlying principles; 2 The meaning of development; 3 The Use Classes Order; 4 The need for planning permission; 5 Permitted development rights; 6 Planning applications; 7 Environmental Impact Assessment; 8 Determining planning applications; 9 Material Considerations 10 London; 11 Planning conditions; 12 Planning Obligations; 13 The issue of planning permission; 14 Planning permission for variations and retrospective consents: Section 73 and 73A; 15 Non-material variations; 16 Reserved matters and approval of details under conditions; 17 Call-ins and the role of Ministers; 18 Planning applications made to Ministers; 19 Planning Appeals – preliminaries and tactics; 20 Householder and minor commercial appeals; 21 Written representations; 22 Hearings; 23 Inquiries; 24 The appeal decision and costs; 25 High Court challenges; 26 Other means of obtaining planning permission – development orders, deemed planning permission and Simplified Planning Zones; 27 Community Infrastructure Levy; 28 Interpretation of planning permission; 29 Implementation This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Planning Law online service.Trade Review...comprehensive coverage across the spectrum of development management issues...The author is to be congratulated in comprehensively addressing the law and practice applicable in England and Wales as at 1 January 2016 about planning permission applications, appeals and challenges in an accessible, intelligible style. -- John Watchman * Scottish Planning and Environmental Law *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Outline of the planning system Chapter 2 The meaning of development Chapter 3 Use classes Chapter 4 The need for planning permission Chapter 5 Permitted development rights Chapter 6 Planning applications Chapter 7 Environmental Impact Assessment Chapter 8 Determining planning applications Chapter 9 Material considerations and policy Chapter 10 London Chapter 11 Planning conditions Chapter 12 Planning obligations Chapter 13 Planning permission for variations, retrospective and replacement consents Chapter 14 The issuing of planning permission Chapter 15 N on-material amendments to planning permissions Chapter 16 Reserved matters and the approval of details under conditions Chapter 17 Call-ins and the role of Ministers Chapter 18 Planning applications made directly to the Minister Chapter 19 Planning appeals: preliminaries and tactics Chapter 20 Householder and minor commercial appeals Chapter 21 Written representations Chapter 22 Hearings Chapter 23 Inquiries Chapter 24 Decisions and costs in appeals and call-ins Chapter 25 High Court challenges Chapter 26 The grant of planning permission by orders and other means Chapter 27 Community Infrastructure Levy Chapter 28 The effect and interpretation of planning permission Chapter 29 Implementation of planning permission Appendix: Statutory Materials Town and Country Planning Act 1990, ss 55–106C, 284, 288, 319–323 Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987, SI 1987/764 Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000, SI 2000/1624 Town and Country Planning Appeals (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000, SI 2000/1625 Town and Country Planning (Hearings Procedure) (England) Rules 2000, SI 2000/1626 Town and Country Planning (Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (England) Regulations 2009, SI 2009/452 Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015, SI 2015/595 Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, SI 2015/596
£156.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Housing as Commons: Housing Alternatives as
Book SynopsisExperiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds “from below". Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies. Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Revisiting the housing question: The potentialities of urban commoning Stavros Stavrides and Penny Travlou Part I Informal housing, infrastructures and commoning practices 1 Weaving commons in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil): Urgency, recognition, convergence Ana Fernandes, Glória Cecília Figueiredo and Gabriela Leandro Pereira 2 Activists infrastructures and commoning ‘from below’: The case of Cheetah Camp, Mumbai Lalitha Kamath and Purva Dewoolkar 3 Subaltern place as an infrastructure of consolidation: Settling an informal neighbourhood in Mumbai Himanshu Burte 4 Commoning Aboriginal ethno-architecture: Indigenous housing experiences in Australia Angus Cameron and Penny Travlou 5 Feeding together: The revolution starts in the kitchen Marc Gavaldà and Claudio Cattaneo Part II Cooperatives, squats and housing struggles 6 Hybrid commons: Housing cooperatives in Zurich Irina Davidovici 7 Urban commoning and popular power: The ‘autonomous neighbourhoods’ in Mexico City Stavros Stavrides 8 Berlin and the city as commons Mathias Heyden in conversation with Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo and Max Kaldenhoff 9 Refugee housing squats as shared heterotopias: The case of City Plaza Athens squat Nikolas Kanavaris 10 The Dandara community-occupation: Destitution-constitution movements towards urban commons in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) Lucia Capanema Alvares, João B. M. Tonucci Filho and Joviano Maia Mayer Part III In defence of the collective right to housing 11 Materializing the self-management: Tracking the commons in Yugoslav housing economy Jelica Jovanovic 12 A Greek activist’s reflections on the housing struggles and the movement against foreclosures in Athens Tonia Katerini 13 The power of public participation: Socio-economic impacts of urban development on the local commons in Egypt Mohamed Magdi Hagras 14 From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin Penny Travlou in conversation with Catalina Ortiz and Harry Smith 15 Housing policy as a form of urban governance: The Barbican Estate and the enclosure of the urban commons Ioanna Piniara Epilogue: Congregations: On the inhabitation of urban humans AbduMaliq Simone Index
£21.84
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe: Towards
Book SynopsisTenancy law has developed in all EU member states for decades, or even centuries, but constitutes a widely blank space in comparative and European law. This book fills an important gap in the literature by considering the diverse and complex panorama of housing policies, markets and their legal regulation across Europe. Expert contributors argue that while unification is neither politically desired nor opportune, a European recommendation of best practices including draft rules and default contracts implementing a regulatory equilibrium would be a rewarding step forward.Despite the lack of EU legislation, policies and legislation in areas ranging from anti-poverty, energy, and tax to consumer law and human rights have generated important, though largely unnoticed, collateral effects on the field. This book opens by presenting a representative picture of the social, economic and legal embeddedness of this sector in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Contributions then deal more narrowly with the legal regulation of different jurisdictions? tenancy contracts.Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe makes a significant contribution to our understanding of issues in tenancy and housing that will be welcomed by academics and advanced students in law across Europe.Contributors include: S.N. Aznar, E. Bargelli, R. Bianchi, M. Drofenik, M.O. Garcia, M. Habdas, M.E.A. Haffner, J. Hegedüs, V. Horvath, A. Hussar, M. Jordan, J. Juul-Sandberg, A. Klopp, I. Kull, S. Meznar, H.S. Moreno, P. Norberg, G. Panek, E.M. Roig, C.U. Schmid, K. XerriTrade Review'Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe makes a significant contribution to the understanding of issues in tenancy and housing that can be beneficial to the academics and students of law, public services and public administration across Europe. Practitioners might find useful hints and recommendations on housing regulations, as well.'--NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Christoph U. Schmid 1. The role of private renting in France and the Netherlands compared Marietta E.A. Haffner 2. Central and East European housing regimes in the light of private rental sector development József Hegedüs and Vera Horváth 3. Tenancies as an alternative to homeownership in Spain, Portugal and Malta? The legal drivers in a European context Sergio Nasarre Aznar, Maria Olinda Garcia, Héctor Simón Moreno, Kurt Xerri and Elga Molina Roig 4. Black market and residential tenancy contracts in southern Europe: new trends in private law measures Elena Bargelli and Ranieri Bianchi 5. The (in)effectiveness of tenancy regulation in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia – is law part of the problem or the solution? Špelca Mežnar and Maša Drofenik 6. Elements of stability of tenancy relations in Baltic states Irene Kull and Ave Hussar 7. Balancing the rights of tenants and landlords in the context of rent regulation – Polish experiences in the light of ECtHR case-law Magdalena Habdas and Grzegorz Panek 8. The British assured shorthold tenancy in a European context: extremity of tenancy law on the fringes of Europe Mark Jordan 9. Rent control and other aspects of tenancy law in Sweden, Denmark and Finland – how can a balance be struck between protection of tenants’ rights and landlords’ ownership rights in welfare states? Per Norberg and Jakob Juul-Sandberg 10. The role of tenancy law in the tenant countries Switzerland, Austria and Germany – Macroeconomic benefits through a balanced legal infrastructure? Annika Klopp and Christoph U. Schmid Epilogue: towards a European role in tenancy law and housing policy Christoph U. Schmid Index
£120.65
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Loss of Homes and Evictions across Europe: A
Book SynopsisThe loss of a home can lead to major violations of a person's dignity and human rights. Yet, evictions take place everyday in all countries across Europe. This book provides a comparative assessment of human rights, administrative, procedural and public policy norms, in the context of eviction, across a number of European jurisdictions. Through this comparison the book exposes the emergence of consistent, Europe-wide standards and norms.With contributions from experts across Europe, the chapters provide an assessment of eviction procedures in 11 jurisdictions, including Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Each chapter examines a number of factors relating to evictions in the respective jurisdiction, such as, the human rights and legal framework, nature and extent of evictions taking place, risk factors leading to evictions and relevant best practice guidance. All together, this book will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the similarities and differences between eviction policies across European states. As the first work of it?s kind to provide an in-depth comparison of eviction policies across Europe, Loss of Homes and Evictions Across Europe will be of great interest to those who are researching European housing law and human rights law and policy. Housing law and public policy makers, and those working within associated European institutions, will also find the data and accompanying analysis invaluable for informing their work.Contributors include: E. Bargelli, W. Borysiak, P. Decker, G. Donadio, R.M. Garcia, M.F. Hrast, C. Hunter, P. Kenna, S. Nasarre-Aznar, S. Nikolic, N. Pleace, C.U. Schmid, P. Sparkes, N. Teller, D. Vermeir, J. Verstraete, M. VolsTrade Review'This is an invaluable book for anyone interested in housing markets across Europe. Misleading comparisons are often made but this book sets the record straight. It provides a contextual account, written by country experts, of evictions from rented and mortgaged homes that considers legal, social, human rights and policy factors in 11 European countries. At last, one can discover how homes are really valued across Europe.' --Sarah Nield, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Freek Spinnewijn Introduction Padraic Kenna 1. Evictions in Belgium, a neglected yet pressing issue Jana Verstraete, Pascal De Decker and Diederik Vermeir 2. Evictions in France Marc Uhry 3. Evictions in Germany Christoph U. Schmid and Sofija Nikolic 4. Social context, evictions and prevention measures in Hungary Nóra Teller and Eszter Somogyi, with the contribution of Nóra Tosics 5. Evictions in Ireland Padraic Kenna 6. Evictions in Italy Elena Bargelli and Giulia Donadio 7. Evictions in the Netherlands Michel Vols 8. Evictions in Poland Witold Borysiak 9. Evictions in Slovenia: legal aspects, data limitations and good practices Maša Filipovicˇ Hrast 10. Evictions and homelessness in Spain 2010–2017 Sergio Nasarre-Aznar and Rosa Maria Garcia-Teruel 11. Evictions in the UK: causes, consequences and management Nicholas Pleace and Caroline Hunter Index
£122.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Ways out of the European Housing Crisis: Tenure
Book SynopsisThis timely book provides readers with a detailed comparative survey of tenure innovation and diversification in Europe. Alternative and intermediate tenures, i.e., housing options beyond tenancy and homeownership, are examined as remedies to address the growing European housing crisis.Starting with an introduction to national housing systems and their development, contributions from experienced legal academics explain the potential of alternative and intermediate tenures used in individual countries. Divided into groups reflecting not only geographical vicinity, but also roughly similar types of welfare states, the book examines 14 jurisdictions all over Europe. Taken together, the national models constitute what can be labelled a European acquis of housing options. The final comparative evaluation focuses on selecting best practice models, potentially capable of being transferred to, and used beneficially in, other countries.Addressing the European Housing Crisis will be of great interest for academics in European law, property law and public administration and management. It will also be a key resource for policy makers and experts associated with political institutions, civil society and housing associations, both at European and national levels.Trade Review‘This very valuable text develops an informative taxonomy within which it compares the growing range of innovations in intermediate tenures that have been developed in the face of the worsening housing crisis across Europe. It is an invaluable reference text not just for lawyers but for those working across the fields of housing economics and finance.’ -- Christine Whitehead, London School of Economics, UK‘This far reaching book really widens the scope of current comparative housing research by offering – within a common analytical frame – a detailed discussion on the whole repertoire of regulations for various housing settings, beyond homeownership and rentals, in 14 European countries. It is a must-read for comparative researchers.’ -- Teresio Poggio, University of Trento, Italy‘In the face of the current housing crisis in most EU countries, alternative and intermediate tenures below and between rent and ownership are in the focus of both researchers and policy makers. When searching for new models for better accommodating individual housing needs, it is highly recommended to examine previous experiences in other countries. The comparative legal groundwork laid in this book provides an excellent basis to rethink and complement the national portfolios of housing tenures. A powerful testimony to the Europeanisation of housing studies!’ -- Steffen Sebastian, University of Regensburg, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvi Tenure reform as a means to address the European housing crisis 1 Christoph U. Schmid 1 Spain 7 Sergio Nasarre-Aznar and Héctor Simón Moreno 2 Portugal 37 Maria Olinda Garcia and Dulce Lopes 3 Italy 54 Elena Bargelli and Alessandro Dinisi 4 France 79 Patrick Posocco 5 Belgium 95 Vincent Sagaert and Benjamin Verheye 6 The Netherlands 119 Michel Vols 7 England 139 Mark Jordan 8 Ireland 161 Padraic Kenna 9 Germany 183 Tobias Pinkel, Annika Schulenberg, Valerie Müller and Christoph U. Schmid 10 Austria 219 Helmut Ofner 11 Poland 238 Magdalena Habdas 12 Croatia 266 Tatjana Josipović 13 Sweden 301 Ola Jingryd, Martin Grander and Peter Palm 14 Finland 321 Tommi Ralli 15 Comparative report: best practices in the European acquis of housing tenures 355 Christoph U. Schmid Index
£128.25
Dundee University Press Ltd Housing Law
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£47.70
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Housing and Social Exclusion
Book SynopsisExamining social housing provision in the context of current and historical practice, the contributors argue that the homeless, particularly those with mental health problems, run the very real risk of being socially excluded; and present arguments for how policy should develop. They consider such issues as: What is the role of government? How far should the state intervene? What can the private sector contribute? How does the law affect the various groups? How can we house the growing number of homeless people with disabilities?Table of ContentsList of Tables. List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Social Exclusion, Housing and Community Care. 1. Pancrack to PanYorkshire: The Rise of St Anne's Shelter and Housing Action. Fiona Spiers, St Anne's Shelter & Housing Action. 2. Community Care in the Twenty-First Century: Choice, Independence and Community Integration. Gerald Wistow, Nuffield Institute for Health, Leeds. 3. Changing Values in the Field of Mental Health. Alan Butler, Leeds Medical School. 4. Community Care Policy: Quality of Life Issues in Housing Provision for People with Learning Disabilities. Nigel Malin, University of Derby. 6. Racism, Ethnicity and Youth Homelesness. Ian Law, Jacque Davies, Stephen Lyle and Alan Deacon, University of Leeds. 7. Can Owner-Occupation Take the Strain? Janet Ford, University of York. 8. The Role of the Lender, 2000+. J.M. Blackburn, Halifax Building Society. Appendix 1: 'What We Believe In'. List of Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.
£23.74
Clarus Press Ltd Housing Law, Rights and Policy
Book SynopsisHousing Law, Rights and Policy is the definitive work on housing law in Ireland. This book provides the first comprehensive reference and critique of the legal and policy elements of the housing system in Ireland. Housing Law, Rights and Policy contains all relevant and up-to-date legislation, housing related case-law, government and other policy reports and human rights decisions. This book analyses the housing elements of the Land and Convincing Law Reform Act 2009, Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010. It also evaluates contemporary State housing policy reports based on the NESC "vision of society" documents, containing such nebulous concepts as "social inclusion " and the more cosmetic "sustainable communities." The book examines key areas of housing in terms of law, rights and policy. These include the development of, and perspectives on, Irish housing, housing needs of older people, people with disabilities and homeless people, Irish State housing finance, private mortgages, housing rights, planning, housing standards and building regulations, local authority housing, private rented housing, apartments, multi-unit developments and estates, housing associations and co-operatives, rural housing and EU law and housing. Housing Law, Rights and Policy traverses beyond traditional black-letter law, placing relevant legislation and case-law within the contemporary contextual background where it can be fully explained and understood. This book will be considered as the leading authority on housing in Ireland. It will be an essential reference for all practising lawyers who work in the housing related area, including all local authority lawyers. This work will also be of great interest to law-makers and public officials at national and local level, as well as academics and students, policy-makers and social policy analysts. It provides vital information for housing and housing related professionals, such as planners, housing managers, estate agents, architects, engineers, surveyors and others.Table of ContentsIntroduction Outline of the Development of the Irish Housing System Perspectives on the Irish Housing System Housing Need Particular Housing Needs Housing and Irish State Finance Mortgages Housing Rights Private Law and Housing Outline of Planning, Housing Standards and Building Regulations Social Rental Housing Law - Local authorities. Private Rented Housing Apartments, Multi-unit Developments and Estates Housing Associations and Co-operatives Rural Housing European Union Conclusion
£142.50
Legal Action Group Defending Possession Proceedings
Book SynopsisDefending possession proceedings is the key 'homelessness prevention' handbook - a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the law and practice relating to possession proceedings pursued against occupiers of residential property.
£76.50
Legal Action Group Housing Law Handbook
Book SynopsisHousing Law Handbook is an essential resource for housing lawyers and advisers. It combines comprehensive coverage of the substantive law with a practical approach, focusing on procedure and the common problems faced by practitioners, from court proceedings and the tactics of running a case, to challenging decisions and seeking remedies.Trade Review'A wonderfully lucid, comprehensive and practical introduction to the principles of housing law ... No lawyer or adviser should be without it.' John Gallagher, Shelter
£76.50
Law Brief Publishing A Practical Guide to Security of Tenure in the
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Duncker & Humblot Kulturrecht: Urheberrecht Und Kulturguterschutz
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£67.43
Duncker & Humblot Die Kulturguterschutzende Wirkung Der
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£82.43
Kohlhammer Landesbauordnung Schleswig-Holstein: Textausgabe
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£35.10
Kohlhammer Hamburgische Bauordnung: Vorschriftensammlung Mit
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