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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 variable with the most impact on the course of housing policy has been ideology--in particular, the ideological orientations of the various presidential administrations during the past sixty years.

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• List of Tables and Figures
• Introduction
• 1 Power, Ideology, and Public Policy
• 2 The Ideological Context of Housing Policy
• 3 Housing Markets and Submarkets
• 4 Federal Housing Assistance from the Depression to the Moratorium: 1934-1973
• 5 New Directions in Housing Subsidies: 1973-1980
• 6 The Growth of the Federal Role in Community Development
• 7 Community Development Block Grants
• 8 Retrenchment and Recovery: From Reagan to Clinton
• 9 Federal Housing Policy: Past, Present and Future
• References
• Index

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Hays analyzes how basic liberal and conservative political ideologies affect the formation of public policy in the fields of urban housing and community development. Operating within a configuration of a changing demography, shifting socioeconomic conditions, and coalitions among various vested interested groups, these competing ideologies shape urban public policy from which housing programs are developed. The continuous ideological struggle over the role of the federal government in housing and community development is traced from its inception under New Deal programs. Such programs as FHA Sections 235 and 236 are analyzed relative to the ideologies of the times. The author traces the shaping and reshaping of policies up to the 1960s, when there was greater federal participation in the programs. There was a more conservative realignment of policy during the Nixon and Carter administrations, as evidenced by the advent of revenue sharing, block grants, and Section 8 programs. The Reagan ideology has stressed a greater disengagement of the federal government, leaving housing and community development responsibilities to the states and localities. Hays's book is highly recommended for students of public and social policy, upper-division undergraduate level and above.-E.J. Norman, University of North Dakota

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R. Allen Hays is Professor of Political Science at the University of Northern Iowa. His other published research covers such topics as urban renewal, housing rehabilitation, intergovernmental relations, transportation policy, and government policies promoting home ownership.