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Chasing the American Dream : New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership /
Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an important public policy goal for more than a century. In recent years there has been a clear shift of emphasis among policymakers from a focus on providing affordable rental units to providing affordable...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Homeownership in American culture and public policy / William M. Rohe and Harry L. Watson
- The ideological origins of affordable homeownership efforts / Lawrence J. Vale
- Homeownership for low-income households : a comparison of the Section 235, Nehemiah, and Habitat for Humanity programs / Rachel G. Bratt
- Federal policies promoting affordable homeownership : separating the accidental from the strategic / J. Michael Collins
- Is housing tenure the new neighborhood dividing line? : the polarizing politics of homeownership / Edward G. Goetz
- Affordable housing design for place making and community building / Charles C. Bohl
- The use of architectural flexibility for achieving affordability in housing / Avi Friedman
- The wealth-creating potential of homeownership : a preliminary assessment of price appreciation among low-income homebuyers / Michael A. Stegman, Roberto G. Quercia, and Walter Davis
- The financial returns to low-income homeownership / Eric S. Belsky, Nicolas Retsinas, and Mark Duda
- The social-psychological effects of affordable homeownership / William M. Rohe, Roberto G. Quercia, and Shannon Van Zandt
- Locating the American dream : assessing the neighborhood benefits of homeownership / Carolina Katz Reid
- Conclusion : Toward more efficient and equitable homeownership policies / William M. Rohe.