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Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy
This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing's impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges. Also available as Open Access.
Lee Anne Fennell (Edited by), Benjamin J. Keys (Edited by)
9781107164925, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 29 August 2017
356 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.7 kg
No area of law and policy is more central to our well-being than housing, yet research on the topic is too often produced in disciplinary or methodological silos that fail to connect to policy on the ground. This pathbreaking book, which features leading scholars from a range of academic fields, cuts across disciplines to forge new connections in the discourse. In accessible prose filled with cutting-edge ideas, these scholars address topics ranging from the recent financial crisis to discrimination and gentrification and show how housing law and policy impacts household wealth, financial markets, urban landscapes, and local communities. Together, they harness evidence and theory to capture the 'state of play' in housing, generating insights that will be relevant to academics and policymakers alike. This title is also available as Open Access.
Introduction Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin J. Keys
Part I. Housing and the Metropolis: Law and Policy Perspectives: 1. The rise of the homevoters: how the growth machine was subverted by OPEC and Earth day William A. Fischel
2. How land use law impedes transportation innovation David Schleicher
3. The unassailable case against affordable housing mandates Richard A. Epstein
Part II. Housing as Community: Stability, Change, and Perceptions: 4. Balancing the costs and benefits of historic preservation Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brian J. McCabe
5. Historic preservation and its even less authentic alternative Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
6. Losing my religion: Church condo conversions and neighborhood change Georgette Chapman Phillips
7. How housing dynamics shape neighborhood perceptions Matthew Desmond
Part III. Housing as Wealth Building: Consumers and Housing Finance: 8. Behavioral leasing: renter equity as an intermediate housing form Stephanie M. Stern
9. Housing, mortgages, and retirement Christopher Mayer
10. The rise and (potential) fall of disparate impact lending litigation Ian Ayres, Gary Klein and Jeffrey West
Part IV. Housing and the Financial System: Risks and Returns: 11. Household debt and defaults from 2000 to 2010: the credit supply view Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
12. Representations and warranties: why they did not stop the crisis Patricia A. McCoy and Susan Wachter
13. When the invisible hand isn't a firm hand: disciplining markets that won't discipline themselves Raphael W. Bostic and Anthony W. Orlando.
Subject Areas: Housing & property for the individual - buying/selling & legal aspects [VSH], Urban & municipal planning [RPC], Housing law [LNSH9], Law [L], Urban economics [KCU]