America's trillion-dollar housing mistake : the failure of American housing policy / Howard Husock.

Main entry:

Husock, Howard.

Title & Author:

America's trillion-dollar housing mistake : the failure of American housing policy / Howard Husock.

Publication:

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2003.

Description:

140 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Most of the contents of this book originally appeared as articles in City Journal.
Includes index.
We don't need subsidized housing -- How public housing harms cities -- Let's end housing vouchers -- The trillion-dollar bank shakedown that bodes ill for cities -- Don't let CDCs fool you -- How Charlotte is revolutionizing public housing -- Take Habitat for Humanity seriously.

Summary:

"In America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake, Mr. Husock lays out his case for opposing subsidized housing. He contends that our housing program failures are not due to minor flaws that can be easily corrected with new and improved management or new and improved subsidies." "In confronting America's housing problems, Mr. Husock points to the deep but often unappreciated importance of economically diverse urban neighborhoods, and the need to offer privately built "affordable" housing in the historic tradition of the brownstones of Brooklyn, the bungalows of Oakland, and, today, houses built through Habitat for Humanity. He calls for time limits on housing assistance to ensure that government-funded housing provides a springboard to self-sufficiency rather than a complacent lifestyle. "Our task now," he writes, "is to dismantle public housing in a gradual, sensitive, and humane way.""--Jacket.

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Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

1566635314
9781566635318

Subject:

United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
Housing policy United States.
Public housing United States.
Community development corporations United States.
Low-income housing Government policy United States.
Logement Politique gouvernementale États-Unis.
Développement communautaire États-Unis Associations.
Community development corporations.
Housing policy.
Public housing.
United States.

Added entries:

City Journal (New York, N.Y.)

Trillion-dollar housing mistake

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233502
Call No.: HD7293 .H87 2003
Status: Available

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