Alex F Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4496029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex F Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex F |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0613-2736 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Where Is the Housing Shortage? Reply to Respondents
In our article, we argue that few metropolitan markets suffer from a housing shortage. We use decennial census data to look at the growth of the housing stock from 2000 to 2010 and onward to 2020 i
Where Is the Housing Shortage
This article examines the extent to which the US as a whole and its metropolitan areas face a housing shortage by comparing change in total housing units and total households from 2000 to 2020. Although various studies indicate that the nation has a shortage of anywhere from 2 million to 4 million units, Census data show little evidence of a shortage. Household formation did exceed the growth of households from 2010 to 2020, but that does not tak…
The Geography of Absence: Cities, Towns, and Suburbs with No LIHTC Housing
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the largest affordable housing production program in the United States. The program has been the subject of some criticism because it has done an unimpressive job of placing low-income renter households in high-opportunity neighborhoods, especially in suburban jurisdictions. This research examines, at the municipal level, what kinds of communities do not contain LIHTC properties. Communities with no LI…
Housing for People with Disabilities: A Review of State Olmstead and HUD Consolidated Plans
Although some scholars have discussed the serious shortage of appropriate housing for people with disabilities, planners and housing policy makers have been largely silent on this issue. We summarize the literature, to date, about the housing needs of people with disabilities in the United States. We investigate what progress states have made in addressing these needs since the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) by examining recent court-orde…
Neighbourhood opportunity, racial segregation, and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program in the United States
Housing policy for low-income renters seeks to deconcentrate poverty by moving the poor to neighborhoods offering opportunities for safety, good education, and gainful employment. Federal law compels communities to take affirmative steps to promote racial and ethnic integration. We argue that it is not possible for a community to effectively deconcentrate poverty unless it actively engages in racial and ethnic integration. This research evaluates…
Remaking housing policy: An international approach , by David Clapham Remaking housing policy: An international approach , by David Clapham, London and New York, Routledge, 2019
The Uses and Limits of Architectural Design for Affordable Rental Housing: Case Studies of the Complexities of New York City, USA
Affordable rental housing design and architectural practices have had a limited exposure and relationship in New York. The main design choices for both planners and architects have been to forge links through sustainable design and building formats. The three cases we highlight offer insights into both the varied forms of financial and policy assistance that have been required to create more innovative designs, but to also illustrate the limits a…
Housing Policy in Australia: A Case for System Reform
Housing Policy in Australia is the first textbook to be published in decades on that country’s housing situation. But it is much more than a textbook, as sorely needed as that is. The book is also
International experience of public infrastructure delivery in support of housing growth
No simple solutions: Transforming public housing in Chicago
With this slender volume (only 160 pages), Susan J. Popkin makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the redevelopment of public housing and its effect on the lives of former resi
Housing Affordability and Health: Evidence From New York City
It is generally understood that households make tradeoffs between housing costs and other living expenses. In this article, we examine the relationship between health-related outcomes and housing-induced financial burdens for renters in one of the most expensive cities in the world, New York, New York. Drawing from the Housing Vacancy Survey for 2011, a representative survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau of more than 16,000 households in Ne…
Introduction to the special issue
Housing Policy in the United States
The classic primer for its subject, Housing Policy in the United States, has been substantially revised in the wake of the 2007 near-collapse of the housing market and the nation’s recent signs of recovery. Like its previous editions, this standard volume offers a broad overview of the field, but expands to include new information on how the crisis has affected the nation’s housing challenges, and the extent to which the federal government has ad…
Public Housing and Vouchers
Public housing and rental vouchers constitute two distinct forms of housing subsidy in the United States. Public housing, the nation’s oldest housing program for low-income renters provides affordable housing to about 1.2 million households in developments ranging in size from a single unit to multibuilding complexes with hundreds of apartments. The Housing Choice Voucher Program, founded more than 35 years after the start of public housing is no…
The credit crunch and subsidized low-income housing: The UK and US experience compared
Lessons from the Housing Crisis: Lessons From the Housing Crisis
Public discourse on the causes and consequences of the housing crisis, and the appropriate policy responses, has been ideological and partisan. The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 and the subsequent financial crisis and deep recession could and should have prompted the nation to reconsider many core assumptions about the role of the market in the housing finance system and about the value of homeownership, among many other questions, howev…
Year 15 and Preservation of Tax-Credit Housing for Low-Income Households: An Assessment of Risk
This paper examines the risk associated with the expiration of the initial 15-year period protecting affordability for housing units developed using the federal Low-Income Housing Tax-Credit (LIHTC). The paper finds that the primary determinants of risk for properties with credit allocated between 1987 and 1989 are reduced by three factors: whether not-for-profit sponsors are part of the ownership structure of the projects, the existence of addit…
Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11 , Edited by Howard Chernick
Housing Policy In The United States: An Introduction
Housing Policy in the United States is an essential guidebook to, and textbook for, housing policy, it is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important issues in the field, introduces key concepts and institutions, and examines the most important programs. Written as an introductory text, it explains all concepts, trends, and programs without jargon, and inc…
Housing policy in the United States: An Introduction
Housing Policy: An Introduction
Bank Lending to Minority and Low-Income Households and Neighborhoods: Do Community Reinvestment Agreements Make a Difference
This article marks a new direction in research on the Community Development Act (CRA) by examining the outcomes of CRA agreements, comparing the mortgage and home improvement lending of banks with and without agreements. The analysis examines Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for all the states and metropolitan areas with CRA agreements in effect and compares mortgage and lending to low-income and minority households and neighborhoods by banks wi…
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support: The Management Challenge
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…
Minneapolis-St. Paul in the Global Economy
Through an analysis of foreign exports, foreign direct investment, and international migration, this paper assesses the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area's status as a world city. The data suggest that although Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities metropolitan area, is increasingly anchored to the global economy, the Twin Cities area is not a world city that facilitates international investments and trade. Instead, the increased internation…
Corporate Service Linkages in Large Metropolitan Areas: A Study of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago
Some urban analysts contend that suburbs provide the same economic functions as the central city, and others argue that they lack the agglomeration economies necessary for high-level corporate activities, especially financial, business, and professional services. The author compares the suburbs and central cities of the nation's three largest consolidated metropolitan statistical areas-New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago-as providers of several co…
The Geography of Corporate Services: A Case Study of the New York Urban Region
This paper analyzes the spatial organization of corporate (also known as producer) services within the greater New York urban region. It examines employment growth trends for individual business, financial, and professional services, the headquarters locations of the largest corporate service firms, and the market linkages of corporate service firms and their clients. Certain corporate service activities have suburbanized far more than others. Su…
Bank Lending to Minority and Low-Income Households and Neighborhoods: Do Community Reinvestment Agreements Make a Difference
This article marks a new direction in research on the Community Development Act (CRA) by examining the outcomes of CRA agreements, comparing the mortgage and home improvement lending of banks with and without agreements. The analysis examines Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for all the states and metropolitan areas with CRA agreements in effect and compares mortgage and lending to low-income and minority households and neighborhoods by banks wi…
The credit crunch and subsidized low-income housing: The UK and US experience compared
Psychiatric diagnoses as reported to Medicaid and as recorded in patient charts
This study was undertaken to address the issue of data reporting in the psychiatric sector of New York City Medicaid, the largest publicly financed psychiatric health care delivery system in the nation. Six outpatient psychiatric clinics in general hospitals, four with residency programs, and all 29 free standing psychiatric clinics in New York City were audited as were charts from 120 psychiatrists billing for 10 or more Medicaid patients. Overa…
Lessons from the Housing Crisis: Lessons From the Housing Crisis
Public discourse on the causes and consequences of the housing crisis, and the appropriate policy responses, has been ideological and partisan. The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 and the subsequent financial crisis and deep recession could and should have prompted the nation to reconsider many core assumptions about the role of the market in the housing finance system and about the value of homeownership, among many other questions, howev…
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support: The Management Challenge
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…
Minneapolis-St. Paul in the Global Economy
Through an analysis of foreign exports, foreign direct investment, and international migration, this paper assesses the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area's status as a world city. The data suggest that although Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities metropolitan area, is increasingly anchored to the global economy, the Twin Cities area is not a world city that facilitates international investments and trade. Instead, the increased internation…
Crisis of the Fiscal Crisis
Book reviewed in this articles: A Review of James O'Connor's The Fiscal Crisis of the State and its Urban Implications
International experience of public infrastructure delivery in support of housing growth
Year 15 and Preservation of Tax-Credit Housing for Low-Income Households: An Assessment of Risk
This paper examines the risk associated with the expiration of the initial 15-year period protecting affordability for housing units developed using the federal Low-Income Housing Tax-Credit (LIHTC). The paper finds that the primary determinants of risk for properties with credit allocated between 1987 and 1989 are reduced by three factors: whether not-for-profit sponsors are part of the ownership structure of the projects, the existence of addit…
Psychiatric diagnoses as reported to Medicaid and as recorded in patient charts
This study was undertaken to address the issue of data reporting in the psychiatric sector of New York City Medicaid, the largest publicly financed psychiatric health care delivery system in the nation. Six outpatient psychiatric clinics in general hospitals, four with residency programs, and all 29 free standing psychiatric clinics in New York City were audited as were charts from 120 psychiatrists billing for 10 or more Medicaid patients. Overa…
Crisis of the Fiscal Crisis
Book reviewed in this articles: A Review of James O'Connor's The Fiscal Crisis of the State and its Urban Implications
Corporate Service Linkages in Large Metropolitan Areas: A Study of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago
Some urban analysts contend that suburbs provide the same economic functions as the central city, and others argue that they lack the agglomeration economies necessary for high-level corporate activities, especially financial, business, and professional services. The author compares the suburbs and central cities of the nation's three largest consolidated metropolitan statistical areas-New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago-as providers of several co…
The Geography of Corporate Services: A Case Study of the New York Urban Region
This paper analyzes the spatial organization of corporate (also known as producer) services within the greater New York urban region. It examines employment growth trends for individual business, financial, and professional services, the headquarters locations of the largest corporate service firms, and the market linkages of corporate service firms and their clients. Certain corporate service activities have suburbanized far more than others. Su…
Nonprofit Housing Organizations and Institutional Support: The Management Challenge
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…
Minneapolis-St. Paul in the Global Economy
Through an analysis of foreign exports, foreign direct investment, and international migration, this paper assesses the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area's status as a world city. The data suggest that although Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities metropolitan area, is increasingly anchored to the global economy, the Twin Cities area is not a world city that facilitates international investments and trade. Instead, the increased internation…
Bank Lending to Minority and Low-Income Households and Neighborhoods: Do Community Reinvestment Agreements Make a Difference
This article marks a new direction in research on the Community Development Act (CRA) by examining the outcomes of CRA agreements, comparing the mortgage and home improvement lending of banks with and without agreements. The analysis examines Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for all the states and metropolitan areas with CRA agreements in effect and compares mortgage and lending to low-income and minority households and neighborhoods by banks wi…
Housing Policy: An Introduction
Housing Policy In The United States: An Introduction
Housing Policy in the United States is an essential guidebook to, and textbook for, housing policy, it is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important issues in the field, introduces key concepts and institutions, and examines the most important programs. Written as an introductory text, it explains all concepts, trends, and programs without jargon, and inc…
Housing policy in the United States: An Introduction
Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11 , Edited by Howard Chernick
Year 15 and Preservation of Tax-Credit Housing for Low-Income Households: An Assessment of Risk
This paper examines the risk associated with the expiration of the initial 15-year period protecting affordability for housing units developed using the federal Low-Income Housing Tax-Credit (LIHTC). The paper finds that the primary determinants of risk for properties with credit allocated between 1987 and 1989 are reduced by three factors: whether not-for-profit sponsors are part of the ownership structure of the projects, the existence of addit…
The credit crunch and subsidized low-income housing: The UK and US experience compared
Lessons from the Housing Crisis: Lessons From the Housing Crisis
Public discourse on the causes and consequences of the housing crisis, and the appropriate policy responses, has been ideological and partisan. The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 and the subsequent financial crisis and deep recession could and should have prompted the nation to reconsider many core assumptions about the role of the market in the housing finance system and about the value of homeownership, among many other questions, howev…
Public Housing and Vouchers
Public housing and rental vouchers constitute two distinct forms of housing subsidy in the United States. Public housing, the nation’s oldest housing program for low-income renters provides affordable housing to about 1.2 million households in developments ranging in size from a single unit to multibuilding complexes with hundreds of apartments. The Housing Choice Voucher Program, founded more than 35 years after the start of public housing is no…
Housing Policy in the United States
The classic primer for its subject, Housing Policy in the United States, has been substantially revised in the wake of the 2007 near-collapse of the housing market and the nation’s recent signs of recovery. Like its previous editions, this standard volume offers a broad overview of the field, but expands to include new information on how the crisis has affected the nation’s housing challenges, and the extent to which the federal government has ad…
Introduction to the special issue
Housing Affordability and Health: Evidence From New York City
It is generally understood that households make tradeoffs between housing costs and other living expenses. In this article, we examine the relationship between health-related outcomes and housing-induced financial burdens for renters in one of the most expensive cities in the world, New York, New York. Drawing from the Housing Vacancy Survey for 2011, a representative survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau of more than 16,000 households in Ne…
No simple solutions: Transforming public housing in Chicago
With this slender volume (only 160 pages), Susan J. Popkin makes a very important contribution to our understanding of the redevelopment of public housing and its effect on the lives of former resi
The Uses and Limits of Architectural Design for Affordable Rental Housing: Case Studies of the Complexities of New York City, USA
Affordable rental housing design and architectural practices have had a limited exposure and relationship in New York. The main design choices for both planners and architects have been to forge links through sustainable design and building formats. The three cases we highlight offer insights into both the varied forms of financial and policy assistance that have been required to create more innovative designs, but to also illustrate the limits a…
Housing Policy in Australia: A Case for System Reform
Housing Policy in Australia is the first textbook to be published in decades on that country’s housing situation. But it is much more than a textbook, as sorely needed as that is. The book is also
International experience of public infrastructure delivery in support of housing growth
Remaking housing policy: An international approach , by David Clapham Remaking housing policy: An international approach , by David Clapham, London and New York, Routledge, 2019
The Geography of Absence: Cities, Towns, and Suburbs with No LIHTC Housing
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the largest affordable housing production program in the United States. The program has been the subject of some criticism because it has done an unimpressive job of placing low-income renter households in high-opportunity neighborhoods, especially in suburban jurisdictions. This research examines, at the municipal level, what kinds of communities do not contain LIHTC properties. Communities with no LI…
Housing for People with Disabilities: A Review of State Olmstead and HUD Consolidated Plans
Although some scholars have discussed the serious shortage of appropriate housing for people with disabilities, planners and housing policy makers have been largely silent on this issue. We summarize the literature, to date, about the housing needs of people with disabilities in the United States. We investigate what progress states have made in addressing these needs since the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) by examining recent court-orde…
Economics (21 works) · Political science (17 works) · Business (15 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (15 works) · Housing Market and Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Finance (8 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (7 works) · Public economics (6 works) · Affordable housing (5 works)