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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A new strategy proposed for producing affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizations<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877225959&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="493_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Rebuilding a Low-Income Housing Policy</h1>
<h3>Rachel G. Bratt</h3>
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<BR> 368 pp
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"A useful resource for planners an activist working on housing development. It provides a wealth of information about the positive and negative outcomes of various federal and local initiatives."</I>
<br>—<b><I>International Journal of Urban and Regional Research</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Examining earlier federal housing initiatives, Rachel Bratt argues that public housing has not failed. She proposes a new strategy for producing decent, affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizations.
<p>The potential of a new housing policy built on empowering community groups and low-income households is compelling. The production, rehabilitation, management and/or ownership by community-based organizations, with funding and technical assistance provided by a new type of public support system, not only would offer participants much-needed shelter, but also control over and security in their living environments. These qualities have been lacking in housing sponsored by the private for-profit sector as well as in previous subsidy programs.
<p>The author analyzes the limitations of both profit-oriented developers and public agencies as the primary vehicles for developing low- and middle-income housing. Promoting small-scale neighborhood organizations as better suited for delivering such services, she focuses on large multi-family projects and argues that our urban public housing stock represents an irreplaceable resource that is rapidly decaying to a point of no return. Through a number of case studies of housing projects throughout Massachusetts—among them South Holyoke, the Granite Properties, Fields Corner in Dorchester, and the Boston Housing Partnership—Bratt examines the dilemmas faced by community development corporations, analyzes the accomplishments of empowered community groups, and recommends ways of <I>Rebuilding a Low-Income Housing Policy</I>.
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><I>"[L]ittle work has been done to show that a community-based housing program is a viable alternative. Rachel Bratt's new book...fills this void nicely by giving a detailed account of the recent emergence of community-based housing programs....Bratt is perhaps the country's leading expert in this area....While the main emphasis of the book is on community-based housing programs, an additional plus is a critical review of the history of United States housing programs which I found illuminating and insightful."</I>
<br>—<b><I>Journal of Urban Affairs</I></b>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<br>Acknowledgments
<p><b>Part I: Introduction</b>
<br>1. Housing Problems and Current Responses
<br>2. Housing Programs and Housing Evaluations
<p><b>Part II: Traditional Federally Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs</b>
<br>3. The Public Housing Program
<br>4. Publicly Subsidized Private Housing
<br>5. CASE STUDY: Private versus Public Goals: Conflicting Interests in Resyndication
<br>6. HUD and Low-Income Housing Programs
<br>7. CASE STUDY: HUD's Property Disposition Policies and the Granite Properties – Emily J. Morris, co-author
<p><b>Part III: The Past, Present, and Future of Community-Based Housing</b>
<br>8. An Overview and Assessment of the Community-Based Housing Strategy
<br>9. CASE STUDY: Community-Based Housing Development at the Local Level: The Challenges Facing South Holyoke, Massachusetts – Thomas M. Harden, co-author
<br>10. Dilemmas of Community-Based Housing Development CASE STUDIES: Two Community Development Corporations – Eric Bove, Phillip Brown, Peter Hollands, Sarah Snow, and John Thoma, case studies co-authors
<br>11. Public Support for Community-Based Housing in Massachusetts
<br>12. CASE STUDY: Institutionalizing Community-Based Housing Development: The Boston Housing Partnership – Wendy Plotkin, co-author
<br>13. Rebuilding a Low-Income Housing Policy
<p>Notes
<br>References
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/493_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Rachel G. Bratt</b> is Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, at Tufts University. She is co-editor of <I><A HREF="1301_reg.html" TARGET="_top">A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda</A></I> (with Michael E. Stone and Chester Hartman) and <I><A HREF="383_reg.html" TARGET="_top">Critical Perspectives on Housing </A></I> (with Chester Hartman and Ann Meyerson), both published by Temple.</P></td></tr></table>
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