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Associating for Affordable Housing: Nonprofit Social Housing in Germany and the USA

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Welfare policies in Germany and the USA have recently undergone significant changes. In particular, relationships between governments and nonprofits have experienced restructuring, particularly in those areas where nonprofits always had a decisive role in producing welfare-related services. Keeping that in mind, this chapter focuses on social housing policies in the two nations of Germany and the USA. In each country, social housing policy emerges as a policy developed since industrialization through different historic steps with shifting policy objectives, financing, and delivery modes. Across the two countries, marked differences and commonalities exist.

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The authors would like to thank Rachel Fyall and Stefan Toepler for comments on earlier versions of this chapter. Also, the financial support of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Patrick Boadu

  2. Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

    Aman Jain

  3. European Research Services GmbH, Münster, Germany

    Friedrich Paulsen

  4. University of Washington, Seatle, Washington, USA

    Steven Rathgeb Smith

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Boadu, P., Jain, A., Paulsen, F., Smith, S. (2014). Associating for Affordable Housing: Nonprofit Social Housing in Germany and the USA. In: Freise, M., Hallmann, T. (eds) Modernizing Democracy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0485-3_20

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