Fixer-Upper

How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.Fixing systemic problems that arose over decades won’t be easy, in large part because millions of middle-class Americans benefit from the current system and feel threatened by potential changes. But Fixer-Upper suggests ideas for building political coalitions among diverse groups that share common interests in putting better housing within reach for more Americans, building a more equitable and healthy country.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-02-22
Mått153 x 224 x 13 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor220
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780815739289

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1 Housing Sits at the Intersection of Several Complex Systems 2 Build More Homes Where People Want to Live 3 Stop Building Homes in the Wrong Places 4 Give Poor People Money 5 Homeownership Should Be Only One Component of Household Wealth 6 High-Quality Community Infrastructure Is Expensive, But It Benefits Everyone 7 Overcoming the Limits of Localism 8 Build Political Coalitions around Better Policies

[Fixer Upper]…is one of the clearest overviews of America’s housing policy failures and just its housing policies that you’ll find. But reading it, a much deeper argument struck me throughout. This is very much a book about when democracy works and when it fails… what [Schuetz] is saying is that this system, what we often imagine to be the essence of democracy, it is failing and it is failing worst in the places where it often looks to be operating best. It’s a pretty profound set of questions, not just for liberals, but for anybody who thinks about political systems, to grapple with.