With a $30-plus billion backlog in capital needs and no Congressional will to address it through appropriations, the nation must explore alternative solutions to financing the repair and modernization of our aging public housing stock.

Jeff Lines and Gregory Russ's "Public Housing Reloaded: Creating Capital and Aligning Preservation Legislation" examines possible solutions to the funding crisis framed within the context of today's political, financial and regulatory realities; paying particular attention to the ideas included in HUD's Transforming Rental Assistance initiative and the successful Moving to Work Demonstration.