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Community Associations The Emergence and Acceptance of a Quiet Innovation in Housing
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Donald R. Stabile
ISBN: 0-313-31571-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31571-8
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2000
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Throughout history human beings have formed communities spontaneously with residences constructed haphazardly. Today a new type of community is emerging—one planned from the start regarding housing location, style, and governance. These Community Associations (CAs) have increased in number from 500 in 1960 to 205,000 in 1998. This book explores the issues surrounding this housing innovation and provides a history of community associations and their membership organization, the Community Associations Institute (CAI).

The book explores the process of trial and error in the design of CAs and how the CAI was set up to help them work. It opens with a consideration of the economics of land, housing, and community associations; explores the social, intellectual, legal background for CAs; and surveys their development in the United States. After considering the FHA's role, the book focuses on the development of the CAI .
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Quiet Innovation in Housing
    The Economics of Land, Housing and CAs
    Common Property: A Social and Intellectual Background
    The Development of CAs in the United States
    Government, Business, and Housing: Early Years of Cooperation
    The Promotion of CAs: A Government-Business Collaboration
    The Community Associations Institute: Formation and Growth
    The Community Associations Institute: A Period of Change
    The CAI and the Management of CAs
    The CAI and Community Building in CAs
    A Perspective on CAs and the CAI
    Conclusion: A Revolution in Housing
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: DONALD R. STABILE holds The G. Thomas and Martha Myers Yeager Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of Maryland where he is also chair of the Economics Department. His most recent books include The Origins of Public Finance (Greenwood, 1998) and Work and Welfare (Greenwood, 1996).
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