French Urban Housing and the Mixed Economy: The Privatization of the Public Sector

Peter K. Eisinger

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1982, vol. 459, issue 1, 134-147

Abstract: This examination of the French experience with public-private or mixed-economy corporations in the area of urban renewal and housing explores the advantages and disadvantages of involving private capital on a for-profit basis in the financing and implementation of certain types of public service. Although urban mixed-economy corporations initially helped the French to address their postwar housing crisis, the private partners to such arrangements have increasingly turned from low-income housing to more profitable ventures. The French case suggests the difficulty of sustaining a social housing program underwritten by private capital.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716282459001011

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