This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent movements toward recovery. The book focuses on the complexities of housing and housing-related issues, engendering an understanding of housing, its relationship to national economic factors, and housing policies. It comprises individual chapters written by housing experts who have specialization within the discipline or field, offering commentary on the physical, social, psychological, economic, and policy issues that affect the current housing landscape in the United States and abroad, while proposing solutions to its challenges.

Contributions by: Mira Ahn, Akin S. Akinyemi, Jorge H. Atiles, Julia O. Beamish, Marilyn J. Bruin, Christine C. Cook, Dennis Culhane, Petra Doan, Rosa Elena Donoso, Rachel Bogardus Drew, Marja Elsinga, Heidi Ewen, Rosemary Caruci Goss, Annie Hardison-Moody, Kathryn L. Howell, Suk-Kyung Kim, Sarah D. Kirby, Joseph Laquatra, Kirk McClure, Jean Memken, Deborah Mitchell, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Elizabeth Mueller, Shirley Niemeyer, Kathleen Parrott, Deirdre Pfeiffer, Corianne Payton Scally, Martin Seay, Cherie Stueve, Daniel Treglia, Becky L. Yust