SUNY Press, March Date: 1995. Paper Back. Acceptable. Some underlining and highlighting 1995. SUNY Press ISBN 0791423263 9780791423264 [US]

State University of New York Press, Date: 1995. Paperback. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1995. State University of New York Press ISBN 0791423263 9780791423264 [US]

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ISBN10: 0791423263, ISBN13: 9780791423264, [publisher: SUNY Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book provides a complete picture of federal housing and community development policy during the last sixty years. Since the first edition was published in 1985, the quality and quantity of published works on U.S. housing policy have increased considerably. But this book still stands out from other works in the breadth of its coverage and analysis. This second edition covers virtually every major program that has attempted to provide housing for disadvantaged persons and compares and contrasts their underlying approaches to housing problems. It also examines the impact of major community development programs-urban renewal and Community Development Block Grants-on urban housing. The coverage of U.S. housing policy extends through the first year of the Clinton administration.Most notably, Hays calls into question the generally negative appraisal of housing programs that is widespread in the public policy and urban politics literature. He shows that although most of these programs have experienced major problems, none has been an unqualified failure, and most have improved the housing conditions of millions of people. Placing the federal government's attempts to deal with housing problems within a broader analytical framework by relating them to long and short-term political changes, Hays argues that the political ...
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State University of New York Press 1995 second Trade paperback Good [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Edition: second ] Publisher: State University of New York Press Pub Date: 3/1/1995 Binding: Paperback Pages: 333.