Housing in Rural America: Building Affordable and Inclusive Communities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761913815 ISBN 13: 9780761913818

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Combining academic housing specialists, researchers for non-profit housing organizations, and housing practitioners, this collection emanated from a Fannie Mae Office of Housing Research roundtable series led by Belden and Wiener. It explores decent and affordable shelter in rural areas, an often-overlooked issue in housing policy. Rural poor and their housing conditions are not widely discussed or examined within professional literature because most housing policymakers, administrators, researchers, and advocates live in cities and take an urban-centric view, what some rural critics have called "metropolyanna."

Following an introductory chapter which defines "rural" and describes the state of rural housing and poverty in the United States, chapters cover a broad spectrum of housing need, innovative strategies, and practitioners′ approaches in rural America. Contributors examine current conditions of rural housing, look at some solutions to problems associated with rural housing, and suggest innovations for the future.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph N. Belden, Housing Assistance Council, Washington DC - Robert J. Wiener, California Coalition for Rural Housing, Sacramento, CA

From the Back Cover

The often overlooked area of housing policy - decent and affordable shelter for the rural poor - is the focus of this book. After a definition of `rural' and a description of the state of rural housing and poverty in the United States, the book goes on to: examine in detail especially distressed populations and regions; look at housing credit needs and resources; and conclude with distinctly rural solutions to the housing problem.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761913815
• ISBN 13: 9780761913818
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Belden Joseph N., Wiener Robert J.