Affordable Housing and Development: Legal and Business Principles: Cases, Statutes, Models, and Materials

Affordable Housing and Development: Legal and Business Principles is an interdisciplinary casebook integrating the theory, laws, cases, trends, social issues, and basic financial programming involved in building, preserving, and regulating affordable housing and development in the U.S. Housing unaffordability is a persistent problem involving multiple drivers, but few people can articulate the core issues, and professionals and policymakers in the space are often limited in perspective by their training, which tends to be specialized. Improving literacy between key stakeholders is a necessary component to strategically resolving the affordability crisis, and this casebook presents the U.S. approach to funding, providing, and maintaining affordable housing at the federal level, and incorporates relevant state and local issues, along with a few international case studies. The product of a unified effort among industry and academic leaders to present the substance of affordable housing and development law and business concepts in a practical, accessible, cohesive, example-based structure, this casebook shows students the basic principles and conflicts at play within the sector, and aims to inspire innovation, eliminate the stasis of discussion, and facilitate ease of course creation. The text is organized into five parts, each containing several chapters that build upon each other to give readers an interconnected understanding of affordable housing. Each chapter includes an expository introduction to orient the reader to the substantive issues and their place within the larger context of the book. This is followed by illustrative case law excerpts, sample forms and finance sheets, and questions and explanations.