Affordable Housing and Public-private Partnerships

With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention on this critical need, as leading experts on affordable housing law and policy come together to address key issues of concern and to suggest appropriate responses for future action. They focus in particular on how best to understand and implement the joint work of public and private actors in housing, and their specific subjects include the real estate aspects of affordable housing law and policy; access to housing; housing finance and affordability; land use; housing regulation; and housing issues in a post-Katrina context. This book fills a critical gap in the scholarly literature, and will be of interest to policy-makers, academics, lawyers, and students of housing, land use, real estate, property, community development, and urban planning.