The Future of Federal Housing Policies in the United States

James Gillies
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James Gillies: University of California

Chapter Chapter 11 in The Economic Problems Of Housing, 1967, pp 137-148 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The first federal housing policies in the United States, as expressed in federal legislation, were developed in 1933. In the intervening 32 years an enormous amount of legislation dealing with a wide variety of housing and land use problems has been enacted with varying degrees of effectiveness.1 On the explicit asumption that the factors which contributed to the success or failure of policies in the past will continue to influence the success or failure of policies in the future, it is the purpose of this paper to examine, albeit very briefly, certain segments of federal programmes in order to identify the most significant elements associated with their operation. Specifically, three general questions are examined:

Keywords: Public Housing; Housing Policy; Housing Programme; Life Insurance Company; Federal Housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1967
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08473-9_11

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