Urban Housing Programs: What Is the Question?

John C. Weicher

Cato Journal, 1982, vol. 2, issue 2, 411-436

Abstract: The record of American housing policy represents something of a paradox. The basic purpose of subsidized housing has been to enable everyone, including the poorest, to live in decent, safe and sanitary" housing. In fact, virtually everyone now does, at least according to the traditional notions ofdecent housing. One inference might there- fore be that past policy and programs have been successful. But that is not at all the general pcrception, either of housing conditions or housing programs. There is a very widespread dissatisfaction with both. This paper attempts to identify the reasons for that dissatisfac- tion and to examine their implications for housing policy in the future...

Keywords: enterprise zones; urban housing programs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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