Affordable housing in US shrinking cities: From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity? - Hardcover

"Researchers, students and practitioners focusing on urban planning and housing policy issues will find this book fruitful" Lectures "In their analysis of five shrinking cities, the authors offer important lessons for institutionalizing more equitable planning processes and siting affordable housing to locate poorer residents in neighborhoods of opportunity." Dennis Keating, Professor of Urban Studies, Cleveland State University

Given the rapid urbanisation of the world's population, the converse phenomenon of shrinking cities is often overlooked and little understood. With almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, this book looks at the reasons for the failure (and success) of affordable housing experiences in these cities, stressing the importance of siting affordable housing in areas that ensure more equitable urban revitalisation.