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Community-Based Housing: Potential For A New Strategy, Rachel G. Bratt
Community-Based Housing: Potential For A New Strategy, Rachel G. Bratt
William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications
While the housing problem in the United States has changed since Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed that "one-third of the nation is ill-housed," it has by no means disappeared. For most low-income people, and to a lesser extent for moderate income people, housing still presents formidable problems.
Academics and housing analysts recognize four major aspects of the housing problem: affordability (ratio of housing costs to income), adequacy (including quality and overcrowding), neighborhood conditions, and availability. Over the past decade, the nature of the country's housing problem has undergone some important transformations.
Until ten years ago the phrase "housing problem" conjured up …