The housing bias : rethinking land use laws for a diverse new America / Paul Boudreaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boudreaux, Paul (Paul J.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Law and legislation--United States.

Land use.

Land use--Law and legislation.

United States.

Housing--Law and legislation--United States.

Housing.

Housing--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

As 300 million Americans Squeeze into our country, and as single-person households outnumbers parents with children, it's time to rethink our land use laws that favor the single-family house. This provocative book visits sites of recent controversies-from an immigration dispute in a Virginia suburb, to eminent domain in New York City, to illegal apartments in the backyards of California. Boudreaux explores how we could scrap the old housing bias in favor of affluent homeowners and in its place harness the free market to provide for a greater variety of residences-apartments, townhouses, and mobile homes-for the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Third Battle of Manassas 11

2 Public Uses and Abuses: Eminent Domain in and around the Empire State 61

3 Side Trip: Mount Laurel and the Fair Share 103

4 Guarding the Rural Myth in Michigan 117

5 Filling in the World's Biggest Suburb: Los Angeles 147

6 Conclusion: Overcoming the Housing Bias for Twenty-First-Century America 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages [201]-209) and index.

ISBN:

9780230110502

0230110509

OCLC:

742006398