Scarcity by Design : The Legacy of New York City's Housing Policies / Peter D. Salins, Gerard C. S. Mildner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salins, Peter D., author.

Mildner, Gerard C. S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--New York (State)--New York.

Housing policy--New York (State).

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.

Local Subjects:

Housing policy--New York (State)--New York.

Housing policy--New York (State).

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No American metropolis has intervened in its housing market quite as aggressively as New York since World War II - and yet none is as burdened by the scarcity, poor quality, uneven distribution, and high cost of its rental housing stock. Why, after half a century of rent control, public housing programs, tax abatements, and land use regulation, is it so difficult for thousands of New Yorkers to find, rent, or maintain decent apartments? Addressing issues that are hotly debated in the Big Apple and other cities across the nation, Peter Salins and Gerard Mildner analyze New York's policies and assess their largely detrimental effects on housing quality and availability. They show how programs that were instituted for the benefit of both investors and the poor - by directly and indirectly subsidizing housing construction and by capping rents - have instead caused misallocation of housing, exacerbated tensions between tenants and landlords, progressively stifled private investment, and resulted in building deterioration and abandonment. Scarcity by Design is an object lesson in what governments should not do if they wish to improve housing and maintain communities. The authors make a strong case for deregulation: arguing from a free-market perspective, Salins and Mildner clearly demonstrate how transition to a fully deregulated, unsubsidized housing market would alleviate the social and economic woes of New York's tenants. They present deregulation as the essential stimulus of housing production, fair pricing, and good maintenance. The authors' crisply written analysis of New York's housing problems and their proposed solutions will enlighten citizens, city managers, investors, builders, and urban planners, and should spark discussions in academic as well as professional circles

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. The Vicious Cycle

2. All the Wrong People

3. The Price of Cheating the Market

4. A World of Adversaries

5. Once Upon a Time

6. Broken Promises

7. Zoning New York

8. The Hidden Tax on Housing

9. Public Housing by Default

10. The State of the Debate

11. Abundance by Design

APPENDIX A. Lease Succession and Tenure Rights

APPENDIX B. Notes on the History of Rent Regulation

APPENDIX C. Homeless Housing

Works Cited

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-43247-9

OCLC:

1013966637