Community-University Partnerships for Affordable HousingAbstractThis article addresses the experience of university-community partnerships designed to tackle the issue of affordable housing. First, it contextualizes the housing issue, because housing problems at the community level are determined significantly in the wider political economy. Second, it provides a brief background on the recent rise in university-community partnerships in the housing area. The third and main section discusses the more general issue of partnerships, their strengths and weaknesses, and their political significance. The conclusion offers the outline of an optimal model of partnership between academy and community. Locating the promise and tension of collaboration within a wider framework of the costs, benefits, and best practices of partnership structures generally, the question is raised as to whether such networking can form part of a new urban governance better able to resolve problems such as housing need.Community-University Partnerships for Affordable Housing (*.pdf)
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