- Summary
- Contents
- Reader's guide
- Entries A-Z
- Subject index
Since publication of the groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Housing in 1998, many issues have assumed special prominence within this field and, indeed, within the global economy. For instance, the global economic meltdown was spurred in large part by the worst subprime mortgage crisis we've seen in our history. On a more positive note, the sustainability movement and "green" development has picked up considerable steam and, given the priorities and initiatives of the current U.S. administration, this will only grow in importance, and increased attention has been given in recent years to the topic of indoor air quality. Within the past decade, as well, the Baby Boom Generation began its march into retirement and senior citizenship, which will have increasingly broad implications for retirement communities and housing, ...
- Abandonment
- Blight
- Displacement
- Eviction
- Filtering
- Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY)
- Obsolescence
- Substandard Housing
- Vacancy Rate
- Affordability
- Employer-Assisted Housing
- Extended-Stay Motels
- Fair Market Rent
- Foreclosures
- Housing Costs
- Housing Trust Funds
- Impact Fees
- Linkage
- Shared Group Housing
- Shelter Poverty
- Usury Laws
- Workforce Housing
- Behavioral Aspects
- Castle Doctrine
- Commuting
- Crime Prevention
- Crowding
- Cultural Aspects
- Feng Shui
- Home
- Housing Adjustment Theory
- Immigration and Housing
- Migration
- Mortgage Fraud
- Postoccupancy Evaluation
- Residential Autobiographies
- Residential Location
- Residential Mobility
- Residential Preferences
- Tenant Organizing in the United States, History of
- Cohousing
- Common Interest Development
- Community Development Block Grant
- Community Development Corporations
- Community Land Trust
- Community-Based Housing
- Company Housing
- Condominium
- Cooperative Housing
- Gated Community
- Homeowners’ Association
- Housing Counseling
- Land Bank
- Limited-Equity Cooperatives
- Military-Related Housing
- Mutual Housing
- Native Americans
- Neighborhood Stabilization Program
- Nonprofit Housing
- Participatory Design and Planning
- Planned Unit Development
- Pueblos
- Religion and Housing
- Resident Management
- Rural Housing
- Self-Help Housing
- Slaves, Housing of
- Social Housing
- Squatter Settlements
- Student Housing
- Vernacular Housing
- Zoning
- American Housing Survey
- Centrally Planned Housing Systems
- Colonias
- Global Strategy for Shelter
- Hedonic Pricing Model
- Hogan
- Household
- Housing Abroad: Africa
- Housing Abroad: Asia
- Housing Abroad: Canada
- Housing Abroad: Central and Eastern Europe
- Housing Abroad: Latin America
- Housing Abroad: Middle East
- Housing Abroad: Western and Northern Europe
- Housing Indicators
- Housing Markets
- Igloo
- Kibbutz
- Residential Satisfaction
- World Bank
- Exurbia
- Growth Machines
- Housing Bubble
- Housing Demand
- Housing Starts
- Housing Supply
- Infrastructure
- Levittowns
- McMansion
- Mixed-Use Development
- New Towns
- Open Space and Parks
- Real Estate Developers and Housing
- Smart Growth
- Space Standards
- Speculation
- Subdivision
- Subdivision Controls
- Suburbanization
- Blockbusting
- Discrimination
- Exclusionary Zoning
- Fair Housing Act
- Hispanic Americans
- Housing Courts
- Inclusionary Zoning
- Mount Laurel
- Predatory Lending
- Redlining
- Restrictive Covenants
- Right to Housing
- Segregation
- Eminent Domain
- Farmers Home Administration (Rural Housing Service)
- Federal Government
- Federal Housing Administration
- Government-Sponsored Enterprises
- HOPE VI
- Housing Act of 1949
- Housing Act of 1954
- Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
- President's Committee on Urban Housing (Kaiser Commission)
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974
- Resolution Trust Corporation
- United States Census Bureau
- United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- Single-Parent Households
- Women as Housing Producers
- Women as Users of Housing
- Environment and Housing
- Environmental Contamination: Asbestos
- Environmental Contamination: Lead
- Environmental Contamination: Mold
- Environmental Contamination: Radon
- Environmental Contamination: Toxic Waste
- Environmental Hazards: Earthquakes
- Environmental Hazards: Flooding
- Environmental Hazards: Hurricanes
- Health Codes
- Indoor Air Quality
- Restoration of Damaged Housing
- Slums
- Homelessness
- Hoovervilles
- Single-Room Occupancy Housing
- Tent Cities
- Appraisal Industry
- First-Time Home Buyer
- Homeownership
- Liens
- Multiple Listing Service
- Property Rights
- Property Tax
- Refinancing
- Warranties
- Ancient Housing
- Automated Valuation Model
- Building Codes
- Computer-Aided Design
- Construction Technology
- Decision Models for Housing and Community Development
- Disaster-Resistant Housing
- Earth-Sheltered Housing
- Flexible Housing
- Housing Codes
- HUD Minimum Property Standards
- In Situ Construction
- Innovation in Housing
- Lean Construction
- Manufactured Housing
- Model Codes
- Modular Construction
- New Urbanism
- Operation Breakthrough
- Panic Room (Safe Room)
- Prefabrication
- Smart House and Automation Technologies
- Solar Housing
- Building Cycle
- Building Permit
- Consolidated Plans
- Home Improvement
- Housing Finance Agencies
- Landscape Architecture
- Maintenance
- Savings and Loan Industry
- Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
- Equity
- Mortgage Credit Certificates
- Mortgage Finance
- Mortgage Insurance
- Mortgage Revenue Bonds
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Negative Amortization
- Proposition 13
- Second Mortgage
- Subprime Mortgage Crisis
- Tax Expenditures
- Tax Incentives
- Accessory Dwelling Units
- Aging in Place
- Assisted Living
- Congregate Housing
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- Dementia
- Disabilities, Housing of Persons with
- Elderly
- Home Care
- Hospice Care
- Nursing Homes
- Retirement Communities
- Reverse-Equity Mortgage
- Second Homes
- Universal Design
- Depreciation of Property
- Lease
- Multifamily Housing
- Rent Control
- Rent Strikes
- Residential Hotels
- Residential Property Management
- Gautreaux Program
- Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
- Pruitt-Igoe
- Public Housing
- Public-Private Housing Partnership
- Demand-Side Subsidies
- Moving to Opportunity
- Supply-Side Subsidies
- Energy Conservation
- Green Building
- Housing Careers
- Shared-Equity Homeownership
- Tenure Sectors
- Adaptive Reuse
- Brownfields
- Community Reinvestment Act
- Gentrification
- High-Rise Housing
- Historic Preservation
- Homestead
- Incumbent Upgrading
- Infill Housing
- Mixed-Income Housing
- Model Cities Program
- Tax Increment Financing
- Urban Redevelopment
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