Affordable Housing in Charlotte
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Affordable Housing in Charlotte

What One City's History Tells Us about America's Pressing Problem

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Affordable Housing in Charlotte

What One City's History Tells Us about America's Pressing Problem

About this book

Locally, regionally, and nationally, the lack of affordable housing is an urgent and ongoing issue. As elected officials rush to ramp up aid for the construction of affordable apartments, scholars and policymakers are asking how our present system of housing subsidies—both its strengths and its shortcomings—came into being. In this book, Tom Hanchett takes a case-study approach, tracking low-rent housing in the growing city of Charlotte, North Carolina, from the beginnings of public housing circa 1940 to the present.

Looking beyond policy battles in Washington, Hanchett tells an intimate history of how federal initiatives played out on the ground, making clear connections between the creation of federal housing programs and how agencies interacted with local and state forces to actually produce housing. Using Charlotte as a lens, Hanchett shows in detail how power brokers have clashed on all levels of government and yet have the ability to empower both citizens and elected officials to take action toward better housing for all, in North Carolina’s most populous city and beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 Before Government Got Involved
  8. Chapter 2 Federal Help for Better Housing
  9. Chapter 3 Subsidizing the ā€œFree Marketā€
  10. Chapter 4 Bathrooms, Building Codes, and ā€œSlum Clearanceā€
  11. Chapter 5 Tax Shelters and Investor-Built Low-Rent Housing
  12. Chapter 6 Dispersing Subsidized Housing throughout the City
  13. Chapter 7 1980s Housing Revolution: Inventing the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Era
  14. Chapter 8 Remix: Rediscovering Mixed-Income Housing, 1990s and Beyond
  15. Chapter 9 The Tumultuous 2010s
  16. Epilogue After a Whole Book about Affordable Housing, Where Are We?
  17. A Few Words about Methods and Sources
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index