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Focusing on how toxic scare stories are literally spooking the general public out of house and home, Haunted Housing is a compelling expose of the fears and realities of radon, lead, asbestos, and electromagnetic fields. Haunted Housing is a manual for buyers and sellers of homes, regulators, legislators, and public policy analysts. Haunted Housing is sensible, scholarly, skeptical, pragmatic, and wonderfully well written for the non-specialist general reader. When the media constantly bombards the public with scare stories about the effects of substances on our families and homes (and a network of federal bureaus and regulations further fuel the hysteria), Haunted Housing stands alone as a clarion appeal to common sense and the application of scientific reasoning.

"It is ironic that the emphasis on abatement of lead in housing emerged and has been escalating just as lead exposure was dropping dramatically. In fact, lead concentrations in humans have been decreasing for more than a century, at least in the industrialized world."

Cassandra Chrones Moore

Cassandra Moore, an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute, writes frequently in regulation of housing, trucking, trusts and pensions. After earning her bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University and her doctorate from the University of Michigan, she spent several years learning the practical side of real estate, as an agent and broker and as a director with the National Association of Realtors.