Overview
Challenges conventional assumptions concerning the operation of housing markets"...easily the most significant piece on housing policy written in the last 40 years... ."--Daniel Lauber
Synopsis
"...easily the most significant piece on housing policy written in the last 40 years... ."--Daniel Lauber
Library Journal
The authors have added a sociological dimension to help analyze how rental housing markets work in the absence of an economic analysis explaining the lack of decent, affordable rental housing. From their findings that rental housing markets are not competitive, professors Gilderbloom and Appelbaum conclude that neither new construction nor rent control will afford much relief. A comprehensive national housing policy with a substantial nonmarket component of public housing and cooperatives is needed. While immediate adoption is unlikely in today's conservative climate, a strong tenant movement may ultimately achieve success. Much of this, however, is really old wine in new bottles. Suitable for subject collections. Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., CUNY
Editorials
From the Publisher
"[T]he most significant piece on housing policy written in the last 40 years.... [It] should be required reading for every planner and elected official involved in housing policy."—APA Journal
"Rethinking Rental Housing should be required reading for everyone involved in housing policy. It’s easily the most significant piece on housing policy written in the last 30 years.... Gilderbloom and Appelbaum strip away the faulty and fictional basis for a national housing policy and offer in its stead a sound, comprehensive, and rational program to guide American housing policy into the 21st century. They offer the first truly effective approach to solving the growing problem of housing affordability."
—Daniel Lauber, immediate past President, American Planning Association