Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development

David Marcouiller is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Mark Lapping is Distinguished Professor of the Muskie School of Public Policy and Management Planning at the University of Southern Maine, USA, and Owen Furuseth is Associate Provost for Metropolitan Studies and Academic Programs at the University of North Carolina, USA

'This book demonstrates that the problems and challenges of rural areas and rural housing are not uniform. As industrialized nations become more affluent, exurban, and driven by amenity centered development, we are increasingly asked to develop rural housing and growth policies that must address the challenges of both have and have not towns and regions. This book therefore paints a picture of a complex rural challenge. Urban planners, in particular, should pay close attention to this book’s findings and recommendations, as this books shows that planning has failed thus far to adequately address the challenges of our rural areas.' Charles Connerly, University of Iowa, USA 'Here is a collection of essays that captures both the diversity of contemporary rural America and the growing disparity in rural communities and their housing conditions. Marcouiller, Lapping and Furuseth have pulled together an impressive group of researchers who together provide a broad account of housing in the changing rural landscape, from amenity-rich areas where population growth and upscale, often second home, housing are the story, to rural communities struggling to adapt to economic decline where old housing stock can be had very cheap, to those chronically poor areas where low income households struggle to find affordable, livable housing in areas that have seen underinvestment for decades. The book will be useful to housing and community developers as well as students in planning, development or social policy.' Mil Duncan, Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire and author of Worlds Apart 'While rural places are haves and have-nots in varying degrees, there are common categories, defined in this book, which will make conversations surrounding this topic more meaningful. I strongly recommend the book for academic libraries.' Journal of Regional Science 'As a whole, this book is a well-written presentation of the contemporary situations of rural America, an insight into th

• I: The Context of Twenty-first Century Rural Housing; Chapter 1: An Introduction; Chapter 2: The Nature of Rural Housing; Chapter 3: The Exurbanization Process and Rural Housing Markets; Chapter 4: Heterogeneity of Rural Housing Markets; Chapter 5: Elderly Populations and the Rural Housing Continuum; II: Rural Amenity-Driven Housing: The “Haves”; Chapter 6: Natural Resources and Exurban Housing: Landscapes in Transition; Chapter 7: Housing Tourists: Accommodating Short-term Visitors; Chapter 8: The Rural Rich and Their Housing: Spatially Addressing the “Haves”; III: The Rural Housing “Have Nots”; Chapter 9: Chronic Poverty, Community Decline, and Amenity-Rich Growth in Rural America; Chapter 10: Exurbanization, Homeownership, and the Working Poor; Chapter 11: The Challenge of Housing California's Hired Farm Laborers; Chapter 12: Subprime Lending and Foreclosure in Rural Minnesota; Chapter 13: Homelessness in Rural America; IV: Policies to Affect Change in Rural Housing; Chapter 14: The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Affecting Rural Housing Change; Chapter 15: Rarely Managing Growth: The Under-utilization of Land Use Policy Approaches; Chapter 16: Conclusions and Integrative Thoughts on Rural Housing Policy