Molina scores big in this stimulating, thorough, and rigorous text on housing in America. Molina is careful to not simplify the consequences of institutional discrimination through time and across space, but instead highlights the aggregation of systemic inequalities ranging from raced housing policies and debates around home ownership to cases of institutional violence aimed at the poor and homeless. Further, in giving attention to the significance of place and policies at the intersection of race, class, and gender, the author provides a microlevel analysis of the consequences of housing trends, urban sprawl, gentrification projects in the city, and the continual suburbanization of the American landscape. The authors inclusion of case studies will prove to be a valuable tool for students and scholars of urban sociology, social problems, and inequalities in America.
Gwendolyn Purifoye, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Kent State University at Stark
Housing America offers a valuable social analysis of the role of housing in the United States as both human shelter and investment commodity. A thorough, multidimensional approach to the topic considers housing affordability, our history of housing discrimination, homelessness, homeownership, and resid ential planning and development. An array of case studies and illustrative graphics augment the accessible, engaging writing. Important teaching resources in each chaptersuch as discussion questions, vocabulary terms, and role-playing exercisesmake this an essential text for urban studies, urban planning, and housing policy courses.
Deborah L. Myerson, AICP, Instructor at Indiana University, Urban Planning Consultant, and author of How Did They Do It? Discovering New Opportunities for Affordable Housing
Molina provides a timely and very important policy analysis of the housing crisis. Her work is an impressive underpinning to Desmonds acclaimed study of residential evictions.
Lloyd Klein, Adjunct Associate Professor at City University of New York, Hostos Community College
With a deep appreciation and understanding of the political economy of housing, competing theories and debates, the role of race, and the challenges of producing affordable housing, Professor Molina offers a thoughtful, clear, and concise presentation of the key housing issues facing the U.S. Compelling vignettes, case studies, questions for discussion, and stimulating exercises will help educate a new generation of housing advocates, policy makers, and concerned citizens.
Rachel G. Bratt, Professor Emerita, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University and Senior Research Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
Housing America
In an effort to explain why housing remains among the United States most enduring social problems, Housing America explores five of the U.S.s most fundamental, recurrent issues in housing its population: affordability of housing, homelessness, segregation and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership and home financing, and planning. It describes these issues in detail, why they should be considered problems, the history and fundamental social debates surrounding them, and the past, current, and possible policy solutions to address them. While this book focuses on the major problems we face as a society in housing our population, it is also about the choices we make about what is valued in our society in our attempts to solve them. Housing America is appropriate for courses in urban studies, urban planning, and housing policy.
Emily Tumpson Molina is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where she teaches courses in urban sociology, quantitative methods, and social problems. Her research interests include housing, urban studies, race and racism, quantitative and geographic methods, and social policy. Her recent work on the foreclosure crisis has appeared in the Journal of Urban Affairs, City & Community, and Housing Policy Debate.
The Metropolis and Modern Life
A Routledge Series
Edited by Anthony Orum
Loyola University Chicago
and
Zachary P. Neal
Michigan State University
The Metropolis and Modern Life
A Routledge Series
Edited by Anthony Orum
Loyola University Chicago
and
Zachary P. Neal
Michigan State University
This series brings original perspectives on key topics in urban research to todays students in a series of short accessible texts, guided readers, and practical handbooks. Each volume examines how long- standing urban phenomena continue to be relevant in an increasingly urban and global world, and in doing so, connects the best new scholarship with the wider concerns of students seeking to understand life in the twenty- first-century metropolis.
Books in the Series:
Common Ground?
Reading and Reflections on Public Space
Edited by Anthony Orum and Zachary P. Neal
The Gentrification Debates
Edited by Japonica Brown- Saracino
The Power of Urban Ethnic Places
Cultural Heritage and Community Life
Jan Lin
Urban Tourism and Urban Change
Cities in a Global Economy
Costas Spirou
The Connected City
Zachary Neal
The Worlds Cities
Edited by A.J. Jacobs
Ethnography and the City
Edited by Richard Ocejo
Forthcoming:
Comparative Urban Studies
Hilary Silver
Housing America
Issues and Debates
Emily Tumpson Molina
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Names: Molina, Emily Tumpson, author.
Title: Housing America : issues and debates / Emily Tumpson Molina.
Description: 1 Edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016040346 | ISBN 9781138820883 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781138820890 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315743646 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: HousingUnited States.
Classification: LCC HD7293 .M635 2017 | DDC 333.33/80973dc23
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