Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. What Is Shelter Poverty?
1. Human Needs and Housing Affordability
2. The Shelter-Poverty Concept of Affordability
II. Why Does Shelter Poverty Exist and Persist?
3. The Historical Roots of the Affordability Problem to the Early 1930s
4. The Triumph and Illusions of Housing Policy and the Economy, 1930–1970
5. Economic Crisis, Shelter Poverty, and Housing Programs, 1970 to the Early 1990s
6. The Instability of Housing Production and Finance Since the Late 1960s
III. How Can Shelter Poverty Be Overcome?
7. Social Ownership
8. Financing and Implementing Social Ownership
9. Housing Reform with a Vision: Ownership and Production
10. Housing Reform with a Vision: Financing and Other Elements
11. Housing Affordability and Social Change
12. Conclusion: Shelter Poverty and the Right to Housing
A. Methods and Issues in Deriving the Shelter-Poverty Affordability Standard
B. Determining the Extent and Distribution of Housing Affordability Problems: Methodological Comments
C. Tables of Shelter Poverty and Conventional Affordability Problems, 1970–1991
Notes
References
Index