Trying to Understand Low-income Housing Subsidies: Lessons from the United States
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.
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2003
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Authors: | Grigsby, William G. ; Bourassa, Steven C. |
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Urban Studies. - Urban Studies Journal Limited. - Vol. 40.2003, 5-6, p. 973-992
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Urban Studies Journal Limited |
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