Part 1: Conflicting motivations for housing policy in the U.S. -- Introduction to part one -- "How the other half lives" / Jacob Riis -- "The lost history of urban renewal" / Alexander von Hoffman -- "Introduction and summary" / The President's Committee on Urban Housing, Chairman Edgar F. Kaiser -- "Housing policy and the myth of the benevolent state" / Peter Marcuse -- "The reluctant hand: privatization of public housing in the U.S." / Norman Krumholz -- "Why a right to housing is needed and makes sense: editors' introduction" / Rachel G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone and Chester Hartman -- Part 2: Competing definitions of housing problems -- Introduction to part two -- 'The concept of housing affordability: six contemporary uses of the housing expenditure-to-income ratio' / J. David Hulchanski -- "What is housing affordability? The case for the residual income approach" / Michael E. Stone -- "How do we know when housing is 'affordable'?" / Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyuorko -- "Counterpoint: the 'housing + transportation index' and fair housing" / Philip Tegeler and Scott Bernstein -- "Remedial phase report of john powell in Thompson v. HUD August 19, 2005" / john a. powell -- Part 3: Conflicting views of low income homeownership -- Introduction to part three -- "The grapes of rent: a history of renting in a country of owners" / Donald A. Krueckeberg -- "Low income homeownership: American dream or delusion?" / Anne B. Shlay -- "More than money: what is shared in shared equity homeownership?" / John Emmeus Eavis -- "The social benefits and costs of homeownership: a critical assessment of the research" / William M. Rohe, Shannon van Zandt, and George McCarthy -- "High risk lending and public policy: 1995-2008" / Dan Immergluck.

Part 4: Shifting emphases in the provision of affordable housing -- Introduction to part four -- "The evolution of low-income housing policy, 1949 to 1999" / Charles J. Orlebeke -- "Federal policy and the rise of nonprofit housing providers" / Katherine M. O'Regan and John M. Quigley -- "The low-income housing tax credit as an aid to finance: How well has it worked?" / Kirk McClure -- "Strengths and weaknesses of the housing voucher program" / Margery Austin Turner -- "Federally-assisted housing: privatization vs. preservation" / Emily Paradise Achtenberg -- Part 5: Competing goals: place as community or opportunity? -- Introduction to part five -- "Federal support for CDCs: some of the history and issues of community control" / Stewart E. Perry -- "Neoliberal urban policy and new paths of neighborhood change in the American inner city" / Kathe Newman and Philip Ashton -- "Housing dispersal programs" / Edward G. Goetz -- "Has HOPE VI transformed residents' lives? New evidence from the HOPE VI panel study" / Susan J. Popkin, Diane K. Levy, and Larry Buron -- "Is mixed-income development an antidote to urban poverty?" / Mark L. Joseph -- Reconciling people and place in housing and community development policy / Nestor M. Davidson -- Part 6: The relationship between land use regulations and housing choices -- Introduction to part six -- "Regulations and housing development: what we know" / Michael H. Schill -- "Local land use regulation and the chain of exclusion" / Rolf Pendall -- "Housing market effects of inclusionary zoning" / Antonio Bento, Scott Lowe, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Arnab Chakraborty -- "Growth management and affordable housing policy" / Arthur C. Nelson and Susan M. Wachter -- "Neighborhood change and transit: what we learned" / Stephanie Pollack, Barry Bluestone, and Chase Billingham -- Part 7: Housing and race: enduring challenges, debated strategies -- Introduction to part seven -- "By words and deeds: racial steering by real estate agents in the U.S. in 2000" / George Galster and Erin Godfrey -- "The dynamics of racial residential segregation" / Camille Zubrinsky Charles -- "Fair housing and community development: time to come together" / Elizabeth K. Julian -- The future of fair housing / National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.