Affordable housing reads for the holidays

If the weather outside is frightful, you might want to curl up indoors with David Smith's perspectives on affordable housing. Right now his weblog is leading with a full archive of his New Orleans posts, followed by an international perspective on the U.S. model for housing subsidies through tax credits.

Should you find yourself in further need of ruminations for long winter evenings, there's Brookings on the Katrina recovery progress here and here... NPACH on Katrina and homelessness... the newly released third-quarter U.S. Housing Market Conditions report from HUDUSER... and if that's not gripping enough, there are always (vaguely) affordable-housing-related classics available online: Charles Dickens' Bleak House with its cautionary tale of housing blight due to excessive litigation... Ibsen's The Master Builder... or Jane Addams' Twenty Years At Hull-House... heck, browse on over to The Online Books Page and pick one out for yourself.