A NEW URBAN HOUSING POLICY FOR THE 1990s zyx DAVID C. SCHWARTZ* zyx Rutgers University DAVID W. BARTELT Temple University RICHARD FERLAUTO Center for Policy Alternatives DANIEL N. HOFFMAN Rutgers University DAVID LlSTOKlN Rutgers University ABSTRACT zyxwvutsrq A crisis zyxwvu of housing affordability confronts US Cities. The authors outline a plan for federal investment for cities. SpeciJic proposals include creation of a National Housing Investment Corporation to provide equity for homeownership project development: new laws to encourage pension fund investment in urban housing and to encourage employer-assisted housing, enhanced rental production programs for neighborhood-based nonprofit corporations, a national homelessness prevention law, a new transitional housing program for the homeless, and “housing with needed services”pr0grams for the elderly, handicapped, and homeless. The authors outline how urban governments can better enforce property maintenance codes, take over abandoned property, adopt planning processes that enhance housing affordability, encourage historic preservation, and invest additional city funds in housing. *Direcf all correspondence 10: David Schwartz, American Aflordable Housing Institute, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 118, New Brunswick, NJO8903. zyxwvu JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Volume 14, Number 314, pages 239-262. Copyright @ 1992 by JAl Press Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. ISSN: 0735-2166.