Rachel G Bratt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4393002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel G Bratt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel G |
| FAMILY NAME | Bratt |
| SIGNATURE | BRATT R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Right to Housing
We started our introductory chapter with this statement of outrage: "It is unconscionable that in the twenty-first century, upwards of one hundred million people in the United States live in housing that is physically inadequate, in unsafe neighborhoods, overcrowded or way beyond what they realistically can afford."We noted the ethical basis of our argument, which invoked principles of justice and the ideal of a commonwealth.But we also pointed o…
Neighborhood , by Emily Talen
Emily Talen’s Neighborhood is a smart, thoroughly researched, and insightful book. While it remains to be seen whether it will be viewed as the definitive early 21st-century contribution on this to
The Role of Nonprofits in Meeting the Housing Challenge in the United States
Housing owned by nonprofit housing organizations comprises one of the two components of the U.S.’s social housing sector, the other being public housing. After providing relevant background about affordable rental housing programs in the United States (including federal, state, and local strategies); the overall size of the U.S. social housing sector; and the level of direct and indirect subsidies for housing, the article focuses on the key chall…
The mutual housing experiment , by Kristin M. Szylvian
The Mortgage Crisis
The Quadruple Bottom Line and Nonprofit Housing Organizations in the United States
The work of US nonprofit housing organizations can be viewed as involving a commitment to meet the Quadruple Bottom Line—the financial demands of developing and maintaining affordable housing while serving resident groups and neighborhoods, in an environmentally responsible manner. Nonprofit organizations may be categorized into three major groups, based on their primary areas of concern—‘people’, ‘places’ and ‘projects’. This article outlines th…
Challenges for Nonprofit Housing Organizations Created by the Private Housing Market
Community development corporations (CDCs) and other large nonprofit housing organizations are major producers of housing for low-income households. One of the least recognized and examined set of challenges facing these groups relates to how the workings of the private housing market—both weak and strong market conditions—impact their ability to carry out their mission. After presenting examples of how housing market conditions create challenges …
Organizational Changes among Cdcs
Since the 1970s, community development corporations (CDCs) have gained skills, visibility, and prominence in their efforts to rebuild very low-income distressed communities. While the net number of organizations has increased, there has been a certain degree of flux, with some organizations going out of business, while new ones have been created. Although many CDCs are financially sound, some are facing significant financial problems that threate…
Policy Review
What was the record concerning housing for very low-income households under US President Bill Clinton? This paper reviews the record of federal funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and assesses how three major indicators changed between 1993 and 2000: the number of people who were homeless or who faced other serious housing problems; the net new number of affordable housing units added, including the net new number of…
Housing and Family Well-being
Housing encompasses a bundle of characteristics that are integral to family well-being. This literature review demonstrates that, on a physical level, housing must be decent and safe, as well as present in a family's life. Housing is also critical because of the way in which it relates to its occupants, providing sufficient space so that the family is not overcrowded; being affordable; providing opportunities to create a positive sense of self an…
Cdcs
(1997). Cdcs: Contributions Outweigh Contradictions, a Reply to Randy Stoecker. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 23-28
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support
The viability of the low income housing built by nonprofit organizations in US cities hinges on the ability of these groups to maintain and manage it. Nonprofit sponsors and their institutional support system have only recently begun to recognize the importance of property and asset management. First priority continues to be housing production, followed by organizational capacity building. This paper explores how the institutional support network…
Federal Housing Policy and Hud
The authors first review the origins and birth of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Second, they analyze four recurrent types of problems: (1) lack of consistent presidential and congressional support for low-income housing and urban aid, (2) primary reliance upon the private sector to meet housing needs, (3) HUD's structure, internal conflicts, and shortcomings, and (4) the complexity of housing and urban problems. Thir…
Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization
Dilemmas of Community‐based Housing
Community-Based Housing Programs
This paper reviews three broad types of community-based housing programs and assesses their contributions toward providing decent, affordable housing to low- and moderate-income households. Despite some significant weaknesses in the overall approach, community-based housing offers many benefits and provides real options for people who are struggling with the frustration and despair of poor housing. Based upon a generally positive evaluation, the …
Housing for Low Income People
Although there is a general agreement among housing analysts that affordability has gotten worse and that overall quality has gotten better, there is some debate on whether the supply of low cost housing is adequate. Based upon available data, this paper takes the view that many local markets have severe shortages of decent, low cost rental housing. After concluding that cash vouchers would not stimulate housing production, and that the unaided p…
Local Land Policy Overrides
The state has the power both to enable local communities to regulate land usage, as well as to override local jurisdictions' zoning policies. In Massachusetts, two pieces of legislation have empowered the state to override local land use control for the purpose of constructing two types of facilities: low and moderte income housing and hazardous waste treatment facilities. Both initiatives have stimulated considerable debate and controversy. This…
Housing and Family Well-being
Housing encompasses a bundle of characteristics that are integral to family well-being. This literature review demonstrates that, on a physical level, housing must be decent and safe, as well as present in a family's life. Housing is also critical because of the way in which it relates to its occupants, providing sufficient space so that the family is not overcrowded; being affordable; providing opportunities to create a positive sense of self an…
Challenges for Nonprofit Housing Organizations Created by the Private Housing Market
Community development corporations (CDCs) and other large nonprofit housing organizations are major producers of housing for low-income households. One of the least recognized and examined set of challenges facing these groups relates to how the workings of the private housing market—both weak and strong market conditions—impact their ability to carry out their mission. After presenting examples of how housing market conditions create challenges …
The Quadruple Bottom Line and Nonprofit Housing Organizations in the United States
The work of US nonprofit housing organizations can be viewed as involving a commitment to meet the Quadruple Bottom Line—the financial demands of developing and maintaining affordable housing while serving resident groups and neighborhoods, in an environmentally responsible manner. Nonprofit organizations may be categorized into three major groups, based on their primary areas of concern—‘people’, ‘places’ and ‘projects’. This article outlines th…
Organizational Changes among Cdcs
Since the 1970s, community development corporations (CDCs) have gained skills, visibility, and prominence in their efforts to rebuild very low-income distressed communities. While the net number of organizations has increased, there has been a certain degree of flux, with some organizations going out of business, while new ones have been created. Although many CDCs are financially sound, some are facing significant financial problems that threate…
Cdcs
(1997). Cdcs: Contributions Outweigh Contradictions, a Reply to Randy Stoecker. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 23-28
The Mortgage Crisis
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support
The viability of the low income housing built by nonprofit organizations in US cities hinges on the ability of these groups to maintain and manage it. Nonprofit sponsors and their institutional support system have only recently begun to recognize the importance of property and asset management. First priority continues to be housing production, followed by organizational capacity building. This paper explores how the institutional support network…
Community-Based Housing Programs
This paper reviews three broad types of community-based housing programs and assesses their contributions toward providing decent, affordable housing to low- and moderate-income households. Despite some significant weaknesses in the overall approach, community-based housing offers many benefits and provides real options for people who are struggling with the frustration and despair of poor housing. Based upon a generally positive evaluation, the …
Housing for Low Income People
Although there is a general agreement among housing analysts that affordability has gotten worse and that overall quality has gotten better, there is some debate on whether the supply of low cost housing is adequate. Based upon available data, this paper takes the view that many local markets have severe shortages of decent, low cost rental housing. After concluding that cash vouchers would not stimulate housing production, and that the unaided p…
Policy Review
What was the record concerning housing for very low-income households under US President Bill Clinton? This paper reviews the record of federal funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and assesses how three major indicators changed between 1993 and 2000: the number of people who were homeless or who faced other serious housing problems; the net new number of affordable housing units added, including the net new number of…
Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization
Local Land Policy Overrides
The state has the power both to enable local communities to regulate land usage, as well as to override local jurisdictions' zoning policies. In Massachusetts, two pieces of legislation have empowered the state to override local land use control for the purpose of constructing two types of facilities: low and moderte income housing and hazardous waste treatment facilities. Both initiatives have stimulated considerable debate and controversy. This…
Housing for Low Income People
Although there is a general agreement among housing analysts that affordability has gotten worse and that overall quality has gotten better, there is some debate on whether the supply of low cost housing is adequate. Based upon available data, this paper takes the view that many local markets have severe shortages of decent, low cost rental housing. After concluding that cash vouchers would not stimulate housing production, and that the unaided p…
Community-Based Housing Programs
This paper reviews three broad types of community-based housing programs and assesses their contributions toward providing decent, affordable housing to low- and moderate-income households. Despite some significant weaknesses in the overall approach, community-based housing offers many benefits and provides real options for people who are struggling with the frustration and despair of poor housing. Based upon a generally positive evaluation, the …
Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization
Dilemmas of Community‐based Housing
Federal Housing Policy and Hud
The authors first review the origins and birth of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Second, they analyze four recurrent types of problems: (1) lack of consistent presidential and congressional support for low-income housing and urban aid, (2) primary reliance upon the private sector to meet housing needs, (3) HUD's structure, internal conflicts, and shortcomings, and (4) the complexity of housing and urban problems. Thir…
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support
The viability of the low income housing built by nonprofit organizations in US cities hinges on the ability of these groups to maintain and manage it. Nonprofit sponsors and their institutional support system have only recently begun to recognize the importance of property and asset management. First priority continues to be housing production, followed by organizational capacity building. This paper explores how the institutional support network…
Cdcs
(1997). Cdcs: Contributions Outweigh Contradictions, a Reply to Randy Stoecker. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 23-28
Housing and Family Well-being
Housing encompasses a bundle of characteristics that are integral to family well-being. This literature review demonstrates that, on a physical level, housing must be decent and safe, as well as present in a family's life. Housing is also critical because of the way in which it relates to its occupants, providing sufficient space so that the family is not overcrowded; being affordable; providing opportunities to create a positive sense of self an…
Policy Review
What was the record concerning housing for very low-income households under US President Bill Clinton? This paper reviews the record of federal funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and assesses how three major indicators changed between 1993 and 2000: the number of people who were homeless or who faced other serious housing problems; the net new number of affordable housing units added, including the net new number of…
Organizational Changes among Cdcs
Since the 1970s, community development corporations (CDCs) have gained skills, visibility, and prominence in their efforts to rebuild very low-income distressed communities. While the net number of organizations has increased, there has been a certain degree of flux, with some organizations going out of business, while new ones have been created. Although many CDCs are financially sound, some are facing significant financial problems that threate…
Challenges for Nonprofit Housing Organizations Created by the Private Housing Market
Community development corporations (CDCs) and other large nonprofit housing organizations are major producers of housing for low-income households. One of the least recognized and examined set of challenges facing these groups relates to how the workings of the private housing market—both weak and strong market conditions—impact their ability to carry out their mission. After presenting examples of how housing market conditions create challenges …
The Quadruple Bottom Line and Nonprofit Housing Organizations in the United States
The work of US nonprofit housing organizations can be viewed as involving a commitment to meet the Quadruple Bottom Line—the financial demands of developing and maintaining affordable housing while serving resident groups and neighborhoods, in an environmentally responsible manner. Nonprofit organizations may be categorized into three major groups, based on their primary areas of concern—‘people’, ‘places’ and ‘projects’. This article outlines th…
The Mortgage Crisis
The mutual housing experiment , by Kristin M. Szylvian
The Role of Nonprofits in Meeting the Housing Challenge in the United States
Housing owned by nonprofit housing organizations comprises one of the two components of the U.S.’s social housing sector, the other being public housing. After providing relevant background about affordable rental housing programs in the United States (including federal, state, and local strategies); the overall size of the U.S. social housing sector; and the level of direct and indirect subsidies for housing, the article focuses on the key chall…
Neighborhood , by Emily Talen
Emily Talen’s Neighborhood is a smart, thoroughly researched, and insightful book. While it remains to be seen whether it will be viewed as the definitive early 21st-century contribution on this to
A Right to Housing
We started our introductory chapter with this statement of outrage: "It is unconscionable that in the twenty-first century, upwards of one hundred million people in the United States live in housing that is physically inadequate, in unsafe neighborhoods, overcrowded or way beyond what they realistically can afford."We noted the ethical basis of our argument, which invoked principles of justice and the ideal of a commonwealth.But we also pointed o…
Political science (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Affordable housing (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)