阿列克斯·施瓦兹(美)著,黄瑛 译。本书对美国住房政策和住房项目进行了深入细致的分析,并在城市规划、城市研究、公共政策、公共管理、社会服务等方面得出了许多具有启发意义、让人耳目一新的结论。该书所提供的大量信息,对国内政策制定者、开发商和住房消费者来说,都具有重要的指导意义。
2008年诺贝尔经济学奖得主保罗·克鲁格曼(Paul Krugman)写道“鉴于美国政策相较租赁更倾向于支持自有住宅,你可以看到这样的事实:美国自有住房者泛滥。”
“Given the way US policy favours owning over renting,” writes Paul Krugman, 2008’s Nobel laureate in economics, “you can make a good case that America already has too many homeowners.”
政策制定者们对所有这些表示赞许,因为这可以不必增加纳税人的负担就能使得更多的美国人拥有住房。
Policymakers smiled on all this because it allowed many more Americans to become homeowners at no cost to the taxpayer.
美国农业部(usda)的营养政策与宣传中心(Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion)发布的这份报告说,住房是家庭最大支出,其次是食品和孩子的抚养及教育费用。
The report, by the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, said that housing was a family's single largest expense, followed by food and the costs of child care and education.
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