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Product Description Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition both in the president’s cabinet and the college curriculum. The editors of this book have updated their acclaimed earlier collection, providing new introductory articles; new papers, such as, Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending, A Summary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and SupplyEffects on Inflation; and a new bibliography of the literature. Additional chapters focus on differing strategies for improved urban housing and renewal by providing concrete suggestions for distributing existing resources and allocating new funding. The bibliography provides the best single guide to the current literature on housing. Housing Urban America, in this new edition, is an important guide to those students and scholars fascinated by the essential questions of adequate housing: its social costs, and the source of the revenues to provide it. About the Author Robert Schafer practiced law in the Boston law firm of Csaplar and Bok. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University and a faculty associate at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. He has contributed to the Journal of Urban Law, Public Policy, and Journal of the American Institute of Planners.Chester W. Hartman is director of research at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, and is the founder and former chair of the Planners Network. He serves/has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Urban Affairs, Housing Policy Debate, and the Journal of Negro Education. His books include There Is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster,Mandate for Change, and The Integration Debate.Jon Pynoos is the UPS Foundation Professor of Gerontology, Policy, and Planning at the Andrus Gerontology Center of the University of Southern California. His books include Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults and Housing Frail Elders.