Trying to Understand Low-income Housing Subsidies: Lessons from the United States

William G. Grigsby and Steven Bourassa
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William G. Grigsby: Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA, grigsby@pobox.uperen.edu

Urban Studies, 2003, vol. 40, issue 5-6, 973-992

Abstract: This article asks why nations subsidise their low-income housing sectors and offers five reasons: to improve public health; to reduce societal injustice; to preserve the social order; to increase equality of opportunity; and, to accommodate population growth. After discussing those reasons in some detail, they are used as a framework for exploring some salient questions about low-income housing policy in the US. It is suggested that the framework would also be useful for analysis of low-income housing policies in other countries. It is concluded that the largest low-income housing subsidy programme in the US—the Section 8 voucher programme-is inapt.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000074272

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