Author: United States. Millennial Housing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to housing
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Meeting Our Nation's Housing Challenges
Author: United States. Millennial Housing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to housing
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Meeting Our Nation's Housing Challenges
Author: United States. Millennial Housing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing policy
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Meeting Our Nation's Housing Challenges
Author: United States. Millennial Housing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meeting Our Nation's Housing Challenges, 2002
Author: Meeting Our Nation's Housing Challenges
Author: Susan MolinariPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756729776
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Report of the Bipartisan Millennial Housing Commission, established Dec. 2000, which was charged with examining, analyzing, & exploring: (1) the importance of housing, particularly affordable housing which includes housing for the elderly, to the infrastructure of the U.S.; (2) the various possible methods for increasing the role of the private sector in providing affordable housing in the U.S., including the effectiveness & efficiency of such methods; & (3) whether the existing programs of the Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) work in conjunction with one another to provide better housing opportunities for families, neighborhoods, & communities, & how such programs can be improved with respect to such purpose. Illustrated.
Meeting Our Nation's Housing Challenges
Author: United States. Millennial Housing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing policy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Challenge of Meeting Shelter Needs in Less Developed Countries
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Housing Problems in America
Author: National Conference on HousingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Meeting Our Nation's Housing Challenges, 2002
Author: The Voucher Promise
Author: Eva RosenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691189501
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America’s housing crisis."—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City An in-depth look at America’s largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of residents in one low-income Baltimore neighborhood Housing vouchers are a cornerstone of US federal housing policy, offering aid to more than two million households. Vouchers are meant to provide the poor with increased choice in the private rental marketplace, enabling access to safe neighborhoods with good schools and higher-paying jobs. But do they? The Voucher Promise examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program, colloquially known as “Section 8,” and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights. Eva Rosen tells stories about the daily lives of homeowners, voucher holders, renters who receive no housing assistance, and the landlords who provide housing. While vouchers are a powerful tool with great promise, she demonstrates how the housing policy can replicate the very inequalities it has the power to solve. Rosen spent more than a year living in Park Heights, sitting on front stoops, getting to know families, accompanying them on housing searches, speaking to landlords, and learning about the neighborhood’s history. Voucher holders disproportionately end up in this area despite rampant unemployment, drugs, crime, and abandoned housing. Exploring why they are unable to relocate to other neighborhoods, Rosen illustrates the challenges in obtaining vouchers and the difficulties faced by recipients in using them when and where they want to. Yet, despite the program’s real shortcomings, she argues that vouchers offer basic stability for families and should remain integral to solutions for the nation’s housing crisis. Delving into the connections between safe, affordable housing and social mobility, The Voucher Promise investigates the profound benefits and formidable obstacles involved in housing America’s poor.