Description
The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies.
This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.
Table of Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Katrin B. Anacker, Mai Thi Nguyen, and David P. Varady
Section 1
Right to Housing
- The Right to Housing: The Goal versus the Reality
- A Home away from Home: Housing Refugees in the Netherlands during the European Refugee Crisis
- Homeownership and the Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gap in the United States
- Non-Hispanic White vs. Black Parental Wealth and Wealth Transfers to Enable Home Ownership in Five Metropolitan Areas
- Should Policy Seek to Interfere with Upward Mobility by Deconcentrating Poverty? Reasons for Concern
- The Affordable Housing Complex: Direct and Exclusionary Displacement in the Lacy and Logan Neighborhoods of Santa Ana, California
- Neighborhood Centers
- Demographic, Economic, and Policy Contributors to Homeownership across OECD Countries
- Declining Homeownership in Liberal, English Speaking Countries
- Subsidized Rental Housing Programs in the U.S.: A Case of Rising Expectations
- Redefining Rental Housing Choice in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
- Accommodating and Accumulating: How the Property Interests of Homeowners and Renters Impact Housing Satisfaction
- The U.S. Approach to "Social Housing"
- The Privatization of American Public Housing: Leaving the Poorest of the Poor Behind
- Public Housing Authorities as Social Enterprises?
- How the European Commission Affected Social Rental Housing in the Netherlands and Germany
- Connectivity as an Indicator of Older People’s Housing Quality
- Housing Models for Aging in Community
- Realizing Innovative Senior Housing Practices in the U.S.
- Designed for All Ages: Multigenerational Housing as a Potential Housing Option in Flanders/Belgium
- A Moving Target: The Shifting Genealogy of Gentrification
- Preventing Gentrification-Induced Displacement in the U.S.: A Review of the Literature and A Call for Evaluation Research
- Urban Restructuring, Demolition, and Displacement in the Netherlands: Uncovering the Janus Head of Forced Residential Relocation
- State-Sponsored Gentrification or Social Regeneration? Symbolic Politics and Neighborhood Intervention in an Amsterdam Working Class Neighborhood
- Housing Policy and the Suburban Metropolis: A Focus on the United States and France
- A New Generation of "Single-Family" Homes: Multigenerational Homebuilding in the Suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona
- Addressing Affordability Challenges: The Role and Scope of Local Housing Plans
- Affordable Housing: Program Financing and Policies in U.S. States
- Prediction is Difficult: The Future of Housing Policy and Housing Studies
W. Dennis Keating
Alfons Fermin and Frank Wassenberg
Section 2
Inequality
Carolina K. Reid
Erin Graves, Ana Patricia Muñoz, Darrick Hamilton, William A. Darity, and Yunju Nam
Howard Husock
J. Revel Sims and Carolina Sarmiento
Emily Talen
Section 3
Homeownership
Mark Calabria and Vanessa Brown Calder
Richard Ronald and Christian Lennartz
Section 4
Rental Housing
Kirk McClure
Andrew J. Greenlee
Allison Freeman and Kimberly Manturuk
Section 5
Social Housing
Rachel G. Bratt
Lawrence J. Vale and Yonah Freemark
Rachel Garshick Kleit
Marja G. Elsinga and Marietta E.A. Haffner
Section 6
Senior Housing
Stephen M. Golant
Sherry Ahrentzen and Ruth L. Steiner
Deirdre Pfeiffer, Ashlee Tziganuk, Scott Cloutier, Julia Colbert, and Gracie Strasser
Sebastiaan Gerards, Erik Nuyts, and Jan Vanrie
Section 7
Gentrification
Dennis E. Gale
Miriam Zuk
Reinout Kleinhans
Wouter van Gent, Willem Boterman, and Myrte Hoekstra
Section 8
Suburbs
Bernadette Hanlon and John Rennie Short
Willow S. Lung-Amam
Section 9
The Future of Housing
Ingrid Gould Ellen
Victoria Basolo
Alan Mallach



