Leading experts on housing law and policy come together in this book to focus attention on the critical need for affordable housing, address key issues of concern and suggest appropriate responses for future action.

Nestor M. Davidson is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Robin Paul Malloy is E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law at Syracuse University, and editor of Ashgate's Law, Property and Society series.

Contents: Editor's preface; Affordable housing and the conflict of competing goods: a policy dilemma, Michael Diamond; Our pluralist housing ethics and public-private partnerships for affordable housing, Tim Iglesias; The value of lawyering in affordable housing transactions, Nestor M. Davidson; Another model of low income housing tax credit development: building housing and building capacity, Michael Diamond; The national housing trust fund: a challenge and an opportunity for creative public-private partnerships, Peter W. Salisich Jr; Putting community equity in community development: resident equity participation in urban redevelopment, Barbara Bezdek; Constructing the social impact statement to measure the full cost to public housing tenants of urban renewal, Susan D. Bennett; Home ownership, debt and default: the affective value of home and the challenge of affordability, Lorna Fox O'Mahoney; Accessible housing and affordability, Robin Paul Malloy; Managing the risks of natural disasters in public housing, James Charles Smith; Table of cases; Bibliography; Index.