Description: Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date description and analysis of the housing and neighborhood problems facing residents of the nation's largest city, and the policies that have been developed to solve these problems.
Brief description: Michael H. Schill is Professor of Law and Urban Planning and Director of the School of Law Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University. He is the coauthor (with Richard P. Nathan) of Revitalizing America's Cities: Neighborhood Reinvestment and Displacement, also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"I teach a course in housing policy and for a number of years have been disappointed with what is available to assign to students to read. What has been needed is a book which presents different perspectives on housing problems and policies and which gives readers a sense of the 'nuts and bolts' issues involved in low income housing programs. Housing and Community Development in New York City certainly addresses this gap in the literature." - David P. Varady, author of Neighborhood Upgrading: A Realistic Assessment