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ABSTRACT:Federal housing policy faces an uncertain future and a weak fragmented political constituency. The Republican controlled Congress may dramatically downsize the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Some even want to eliminate the agency altogether. In response, the Clinton administration has promised to reinvent and streamline HUD. Neither approach, however, addresses the nation's housing problems or the totality of federal housing programs in any comprehensive way. The authors analyze the factors contributing to HUD's vulnerability, review the various proposals to reorganize the agency, and propose an alternative and more comprehensive policy that has the potential to expand the political constituency for federal housing policy.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00383.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00384.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00385.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00386.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:The viability of the low income housing built by nonprofit organizations in US cities hinges on the ability of these groups to maintain and manage it. Nonprofit sponsors and their institutional support system have only recently begun to recognize the importance of property and asset management. First priority continues to be housing production, followed by organizational capacity building. This paper explores how the institutional support network for nonprofit housing has begun to address the need for stronger property management. Drawing from recent six city study, the authors examine different ways by which local and national networks provide financial and technical support for property management. They conclude with a series of recommendations for broadening and strengthening institutional support for property management in the nonprofit sector.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00387.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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ABSTRACT:Studies of rent control have utilized limited samples of cities over short timespans. Many are limited in value because of crude or poorly specified statistical analyses and a majority tend to focus on the most extreme form of rent control, that of New York City, and ignore more typical kinds. This study addresses these shortcomings by analyzing them over a 20‐year timespan and using regression analysis which specifies the independent variable rent control as both a nominal and an ordinal variable. This is the largest sample using regression analysis over so long a period. The authors give an overview of the impacts of moderate rent control in 60 New Jersey cities. Their regression analysis reveals that moderate rent control laws in New Jersey have had only a small impac

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00388.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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ABSTRACT:In the 1980s several estimates were made of the size of the homeless population nationwide. An examination of these estimates shows that claims by advocacy groups that 2–3 million persons were homeless on any night were unjustified. Instead, social scientific studies agree that the number is probably about 300,000–500,000. This discrepancy tests the ability of the media to distinguish between good social science research and mere guesstimates. An examination of US magazines and newspapers found that, as a group, the media were more likely to cite high estimates than low estimates and this changed only slightly over time. Two factors seem to explain why journalists cannot distinguish between good and bad estimates: media bias and the process whereby information is gathe

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00389.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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ABSTRACT:Structuralists believe that increased homelessness over the past two decades was caused by loss of affordable rental housing and increasing numbers of poor people in large cities. This viewpoint regards the tightening of the aggregate low income housing ratio as the primary cause and the relatively high rates of personal disabilities of homeless people as selection factors. The author uses microdata to analyze trends in low income housing supply, the low income housing ratio, and crowding in low income rental units. He shows that the claimed near 100% tightening of the low income housing ratio is only 26% and rates of overcrowding in affordable units increased by only 1%. The macrolevel trends that structuralists say cause increasing homelessness exist but are not nearly as dramatic as they believe. The author argues that theory and policy must place greater weight on the personal disabilities of homeless people that structuralists have deemphasized.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00390.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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Book reviewed in this article:Cityscapes and Capital: The Politics of Urban Development, by Michael A. Pagano and Ann O'M. BowmanCommunity Power in a Postreform City: Politics in New York City, by Robert F. PecorellaThe Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Rowan A. Rowntree, and Pamela C. MuickVoices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities, by Robert A. BeauregardNew Community Networks: Wired for Change, by Douglas SchulerUrban Revitalization: Programs and Policies, edited by Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, and Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr. Thousand OaksReinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories, by Norman Krumholz and Pierre Clavel

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1996.tb00391.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY