Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies.

This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.

Katrin B. Anacker is an Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She co-edited Introduction to Housing (2018) and edited The New American Suburb: Poverty, Race and the Economic Crisis (2015). Her work has appeared in Housing Policy Debate, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and Housing Studies. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Mai Thi Nguyen is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her scholarship has been motivated by a desire to understand how to create a more equitable social and spatial world. Her research focuses on housing policy, resilient communities, and socially vulnerable populations. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

David P. Varady, a Professor at the University of Cincinnati, has authored six books, nine book chapters, 76 journal articles, and 89 book reviews on neighborhood development and housing. He has held Visiting Scholar positions at TU Delft in the Netherlands, the City of Helsinki, Rutgers University, University of Glasgow, the National Association of Realtors, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.