Alexander von Hoffman, Matthew Arck
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June 13, 2019
This brief describes five novel and replicable programs that are providing housing for low- and moderate-income Americans. These programs were created by collaborations of…
Between 2010 and 2013 the leaders of five nonprofit housing organizations located in western New York State met together to form an alliance of their organizations. All…
A history of affordable housing policy in the United States, and efforts to preserve affordable housing units in recent decades.
Starting in the 1960s, the United…
W13-8: The recent housing bust precipitated a wave of mortgage defaults, with over seven percent of the owner-occupied housing stock experiencing a foreclosure.…
W12-9: How and why American housing policy got so complicated are questions scholars have largely neglected to answer. Historians, for their part, have conceived…
W12-5: History offers valuable lessons to policy makers. Among other lessons, it teaches us the reasons that the government adopted the programs that constitute the…
W11-3: Of the several large and important domestic housing and urban programs produced by Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society administration, the best-known is Model Cities.…
W10-6: The final years of the Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society administration were anything but quiet. Punctuated by riots and assassinations, events seemed to bring…
W10-5: During the 1950s, the political dynamics of American low-income housing policy began to change. After they won the long struggle to pass the United States Housing…
W10-4: In 1955, Daniel Sweeney, the owner of a large farm in the old New England town of Acton, Massachusetts, decided to abandon his unprofitable dairy and market farm…