Rethinking Rental Housing

Rethinking Rental Housing

From the PublisherChallenges conventional assumptions concerning the operation of housing marketsRobert E. Park Award, American Sociological AssociationPresents a sociological framework to the study of rental housing. This book offers an analysis that shows the value of applying a broad sociological approach to urban problems, one that takes into account the basic economic, social, and political dimensions of the urban housing crisis.From the Inside Flap"[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. Its 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"... An exhaustive and penetrating study of rental housing in the United States. They go beyond the usual preoccupation with market factors to demonstrate the social and political processes which determine the availability of rental housing.... Anyone who wants to understand the growing crisis in rental housing in America will want to read this book."Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward"This book is a compelling debunking of many of the myths which surround the debate over housing subsidies and policy...."Barry Zigas, President, National Low Income Housing Coalition"An impressive and important work. This book is a landmark in the discussion of rental housing in the U.S. It should be consulted by policymakers, read by housing activists, and assigned by professors."Derek ShearerAbout the AuthorJohn I. Gilderbloom is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Center for Public Policy, University of Houston.Richard P. Appelbaum is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.