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An in-depth examination of the non-profit housing sector that covers theory, research, and policy.
Dissatisfied with the performance of government and the for-profit sector in the provision of low-income housing, housing policymakers have increasingly turned to the nonprofit sector. The nonprofit housing sector, despite its small size in the United States and its serious problems with production and management capacity, benefits in the public eye from the positive aura of volunteerism, coupled with the vague promise of shifting governmental fiscal burdens to philanthropy and private charity. But despite the favorable aura of nonprofit housing, governments and housing advocates in the United States display limited understanding of the nonprofit sector. This book addresses this deficiency by examining theory, research, and policy. It moves beyond descriptions of current nonprofit housing providers and the programs they use, to a deeper level of understanding of the nonprofit housing sector, providing the policymaker, administrator, and advocate, as well as the scholar and student, with the theoretical and research grounding from which to develop better policies, practices, and research.
Contributors to this book include Peter J. Boelhouwer, Rachel G. Bratt, Peter Dreier, Robert Dyck, Scott Hebert, C. Theodore Koebel, William M. Rohe, Bishwapriya Sanyal, Richard Steinberg, Harry M. H. van der Heiden, James Wallace, and Robert B. Whittlesey.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Nonprofit Housing: Theory, Research, and Policy
C. Theodore Koebel
Part I: Theory
Chapter 2. The Theory of the Nonprofit Sector in Housing
Richard Steinberg
Chapter 3. Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing: Definitions and Applications in an International Perspective
C. Theodore Koebel, Richard Steinberg, and Robert Dyck
Chapter 4. Beyond the Theory of Comparative Advantage: Political Imperatives of the Government-Nonprofit Relationship
Bishwapriya Sanyal
Part II: Research
Chapter 5. Philanthropy and the Housing Crisis: Dilemmas of Private Charity and Public Policy in the United States
Peter Dreier
Chapter 6. Nonprofit Developers and Managers: The Evolution of their Role in U.S. Housing Policy
Rachel G. Bratt
Chapter 7. The Development of the Social Rental Sector in Western Europe in Relation to Housing Policy
Peter J. Boelhouwer and Harry M. H. van der Heijden
Chapter 8. Do Community Development Corporations Live Up to their Billing? A Review and Critique of the Research Findings
William M. Rohe
Chapter 9. Nonprofit Housing: A Study of Costs and Funding
Scott Hebert and James Wallace
Chapter 10. The Tortuous Path of Nonprofit Development
C. Theodore Koebel
Part III: Policy
Chapter 11. Restructuring the Nonprofit Sector: On Lessons Learned from American and European Experience
Robert B. Whittlesey
Chapter 12. Responding to the Crisis in Nonprofit Housing
C. Theodore Koebel
Contributors
Index