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Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker. Housing in the United States offers an accessible introduction to key concepts in housing and a concise overview of the programs that affect housing choices, affordability, and access in America today.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Rethinking the State -- 2 Whose State is it? Hindu-nationalist Violence and Populism in India -- 3 The 'Privatization' of the State: North Africa in Comparative Perspective -- 4 The State Against Itself: Market Reforms and the Judicialization of Politics in Mexico -- 5 The Phoenix State: War Economy and State Formation in Liberia -- 6 The Rise of the Social and the Banalization of the State in China -- 7 Uganda - A State in Suspense

"Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience. Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than soften the blow of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 for ordinary citizens, policies of austerity slow growth and lead to increased inequality. While political consent for such policies may have been achieved, it was reached amidst significant levels of disaffection and strong opposition to the extremes of austerity. The authors build their analysis in three sections, looking alternatively at theoretical and ideological dimensions of the lived experience of austerity; how austerity plays out in various public sector occupations and policy domains; and the class dimensions of austerity. The result is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of austerity politics and policies."--