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History lessons for today's housing policy: the politics of low-income housing

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History offers valuable lessons to housing policymakers. For those who would devise new low-income housing programs during today's trying economic circumstances, it is helpful to study the strategies that succeeded in achieving low-income housing programs in past difficult times. This article, History Lessons for Today's Housing Policy, examines the political processes that led to the adoption of new low-income housing policies during four political crises. The four crises were the Great Depression of the 1930s, the post-World War II housing shortage, the urban crisis of the 1960s, and the policy crisis of the 1970s. Among other history lessons, the article reveals that well-organized political support, especially from large institutions, is crucial to achieving distinctly different new programs; that decentralized programs are more politically resilient than centralized programs; that programs that appeal to the nation's broad middle-class are most popular; and that policy research is valuable but that politics trumps research.

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  • Alexander von Hoffman, 2012. "History lessons for today's housing policy: the politics of low-income housing," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(3), pages 321-376, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:22:y:2012:i:3:p:321-376
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2012.680478
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