Library Guides: Housing Research Resources: Housing Policy

United States Housing Policy

Online Resources

Center for Budget and Policy Priorities - Housing
Founded in 1981 to analyze federal budget priorities, with a particular focus on how budget choices affect low-income Americans.
A Chronology of housing legislation and selected executive actions, 1892-2003
U.S. Congressional Research Service, 2003.

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Provides access to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis. (U.S. Code of Federal Regulations)

Compilation of basic laws on housing and community development
Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, House of Representatives. (Committee Print 108-C) Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.
National Housing Conference
Formed in 1931, the nonprofit National Housing Conference is dedicated to helping ensure safe, decent and affordable housing for all in America. As the research division of NHC, the Center for Housing Policy specializes in solutions through research, working to broaden understanding of America’s affordable housing challenges and examine the impact of policies and programs developed to address these needs.
Policy development & research (PD&R) publications
U.S. HUD. Links to many full-text housing policy documents.

Print Resources

Blueprint 2001: housing element ideas and solutions for a sustainable and affordable future: Bay Area housing. Association of Bay Area Governments, Bay Area Council, Greenbelt Alliance, et. al. Oakland, CA: ABAG, 2001.
From tenements to the Taylor homes: in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America. Bauman, John F., Biles, Roger, and Szylvian, Kristin M., eds. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2000.
A Guide to State and Federal Housing Policy in California. Nemirow, Ruth Alison. Thesis. Berkeley, CA: University of California-Berkeley, 2011.
History of housing in the U.S., 1930-1980. Mason, Joseph B. Houston: Gulf Pub. Co., Book Division, 1982.
Housing & development reporter. Includes directory of major housing and development organizations, pertinent CFR texts and other Federal legislation.
Housing in America: 1970-2000: the nation's housing needs for the balance of the 20th century. Apgar Jr., William C., Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, 1991.
Housing policy in the United States: an introduction. Schwartz, Alex F. NY: Routledge, 2010.
The housing policy revolution: networks and neighborhoods. Erickson, David J. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press., 2009.
Oversight of the Federal Housing Finance Agency: hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013.
Reauthorizing the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, and for other purposes: report (to accompany S.1342). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014
Understanding housing policy. Lund, Brian. Portland, OR: Policy Press., 2011.

International Housing Policy

Online Resources

International Federation for Housing and Planning
The IFHP sponsors an annual congress. The papers presented (and published in the proceedings) are often about housing policies in a particular country.

Print Resources

Housing in East Asia: socioeconomic and demographic challenges. Doling, John and Ronald, Richard. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Housing markets and the global financial crisis: the uneven impact on househoulds. Forrest, Ray and Yip, Ngai-Ming, eds. Cheltenham, U.K.; Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2011.
Housing policy reforms in post socialist Europe: lost in translation. Tsenkova, Sasha. Heidelberg: Physica; London: Springer, 2009.
The housing question: tensions, continuties, and contingencies in the modern city. Murphy, Edward and Hourani, Najib, eds. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.
International handbook of housing policies and practices. van Vliet, Willem, ed., NY: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Inclusionary housing in international perspective: affordable housing, social inclusion and land value recapture. Calavita, Nico and Mallach, Alan. Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010.
A review of UUDP's support to the South African housing sector. Menguele, Francois, Motsei, Lenyalo, and Sliverment, Melinda, eds. South Africa; Urban Upgrading and Development Programme, 2004.
A roof over every head: Singapore's housing policies in the 21st century: between state monopoly and privatisation. Tai-Chee, Wong and Guillot, Xavier. Calcutta: Sampark, 2005.
Room for development: housing markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. Bouillion, Cesar Patricio, ed. Inter-American Development Bank. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Urban housing policy. Gringsby, William G. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers., 2012.
Women and housing: an international analysis. Kennett, Patricia and Kam Wah, Chan. NY: Routledge, 2011

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