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- Title
Federal Housing Policies: Subsidized Production, Filtration and Objectives: Part II.
- Authors
Kristof, Frank S.
- Abstract
The problem in the central cities of the United states is less one of housing shortage than of restoring the livability of neighborhoods that have lost this quality and of maintaining or rehabilitating housing in essentially sound structures. The low income average of its inhabitants is reflected in reduced income for public services in these cities at a time when the maintenance of services has become more important than ever. Relative to the essential requirement of meeting the record-breaking rate of new household formation of the 1960's, the data of an analysis show that any talk of housing shortage in the United States constitutes one of the great mythologies of housing discussion. However, that the need has not been met for many low-income households for qualitatively satisfactory housing within their ability to pay can also be asserted with little refutation. In some respects, central cities have become an entrapment for large numbers of low-income minority families as employment opportunities decline or provide only a low level of sustenance. The problem is exacerbated by low levels of skills among in-migrant adults and schooling difficulties experienced by a large proportion of minority children that do not qualify them for jobs that are available.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOUSING; HOUSING policy; URBAN policy; LOW-income housing; CITIES &; towns; HOUSEHOLDS
- Publication
Land Economics, 1973, Vol 49, Issue 2, p163
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145280