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Under one roof : issues and innovations in shared housing / edited by George C. Hemmens, Charles J. Hoch, and Jana Carp.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series on urban public policyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 152 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585034672
  • 9780585034676
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Under one roof.DDC classification:
  • 363.5 20
LOC classification:
  • HD7287.86.U6 U53 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Shared Housing in Low Income Households / George Hemmens and Charles Hoch -- Ch. 3. Informal Additions to the U.S. Housing Stock: Changing Structures and Changing Uses / Anna Hardman -- Ch. 4. Housing Alternatives for New Forms of Households / Sherry Ahrentzen -- Ch. 5. Designing Women's Welfare: Home/Work / Jacqueline Leavitt -- Ch. 6. Lakefront SRO Corporation: Reviving Single-Room Occupancy Housing / Jean Butzen -- Ch. 7. Abbeyfield: Community-Based Shared Housing for the Elderly / Richard Biddlecombe -- Ch. 8. Zoning as a Tool for Shared Housing / Patricia Baron Pollak -- Ch. 9. The Trouble with Sharing / Peter Marris -- Ch. 10. Conclusion.
Summary: Americans with changing lifestyles, nontraditional households, and special needs and interests are increasingly looking for alternatives to the single-family house, and especially for the opportunity to share housing with others for economic, social, and personal reasons. This book reviews the status of shared housing in the U.S. housing market, establishes a research and policy agenda on shared housing as a contribution to the national effort to improve housing affordability and quality, and argues for changing public policy to support it. The book consists of original essays (by Anna Hardman, Sherry Abrentzen, Jacqueline Leavitt, Jean Butzen, Richard Biddlecombe, Patricia Baron Pollak, Peter Marris, and the editors) on topics such as shared housing in low-income households; shared housing for the elderly; single-room occupancy housing; zoning as a tool for shared housing; and problems associated with shared housing. The authors argue convincingly that current housing policy and regulations, supported by popular opinion, greatly limit the development of multiple-dwelling houses, and they make the case that shared housing can provide an attractive option for low- and moderate-income families who cannot afford suburban homes during a period of economic recession and declining expectations.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index.

Print version record.

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Shared Housing in Low Income Households / George Hemmens and Charles Hoch -- Ch. 3. Informal Additions to the U.S. Housing Stock: Changing Structures and Changing Uses / Anna Hardman -- Ch. 4. Housing Alternatives for New Forms of Households / Sherry Ahrentzen -- Ch. 5. Designing Women's Welfare: Home/Work / Jacqueline Leavitt -- Ch. 6. Lakefront SRO Corporation: Reviving Single-Room Occupancy Housing / Jean Butzen -- Ch. 7. Abbeyfield: Community-Based Shared Housing for the Elderly / Richard Biddlecombe -- Ch. 8. Zoning as a Tool for Shared Housing / Patricia Baron Pollak -- Ch. 9. The Trouble with Sharing / Peter Marris -- Ch. 10. Conclusion.

Americans with changing lifestyles, nontraditional households, and special needs and interests are increasingly looking for alternatives to the single-family house, and especially for the opportunity to share housing with others for economic, social, and personal reasons. This book reviews the status of shared housing in the U.S. housing market, establishes a research and policy agenda on shared housing as a contribution to the national effort to improve housing affordability and quality, and argues for changing public policy to support it. The book consists of original essays (by Anna Hardman, Sherry Abrentzen, Jacqueline Leavitt, Jean Butzen, Richard Biddlecombe, Patricia Baron Pollak, Peter Marris, and the editors) on topics such as shared housing in low-income households; shared housing for the elderly; single-room occupancy housing; zoning as a tool for shared housing; and problems associated with shared housing. The authors argue convincingly that current housing policy and regulations, supported by popular opinion, greatly limit the development of multiple-dwelling houses, and they make the case that shared housing can provide an attractive option for low- and moderate-income families who cannot afford suburban homes during a period of economic recession and declining expectations.

English.

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