The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works & contemporary writing on the themes & debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground The Reader
- aimed at professors students & researchers
- provides an overview of the literature on housing policy & planning that is both comprehensive & interdisciplinary It is particularly suited for graduate & undergraduate courses on housing policy offered to students of public policy & city planning The Reader is structured around the key debates in affordable housing ranging from the conflicting motivations for housing policy through analysis of the causes of & solutions to housing problems to concerns about gentrification & housing & race Each debate is contextualized in an introductory essay by the editors & illustrated with a range of texts & articles Elizabeth Mueller & Rosie Tighe have brought together for the first time into a single volume the best & most influential writings on housing & its importance for planners & policy-makers