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- Title
Rent Subsidy and Housing Satisfaction. The case of Urban Renewal in Lubbock, Texas.
- Authors
Edgley, Charles K.; Steglich, W. G.; Cartwright, Walter J.
- Abstract
The article discusses rent subsidy and housing satisfaction in the U.S. The article presents data relative to dissatisfaction of tenants in a rent subsidized program in Lubbock, Texas, a program designed to help low income families displaced by the city's urban renewal program. Governmental programs proposing rental supplements for low-income families assume that social and economic conditions of these families may be improved by rent subsidy. Data were gathered at an urban renewal relocation housing project in Lubbock, Texas, and suggest that when families who, before urban renewal, were self-sufficient in slum housing are forced into welfare situations because of rent subsidy programs, dissatisfaction with relocation facilities results. The federal program emphasizes the need for rental subsidy for all low-income families, whereas the local program centers on fulfilling the requirements of providing standard housing only for Negro families displaced by urban renewal. These omissions are paradoxical since urban renewal officials have consistently regarded the social problems associated with slum clearance and urban rehabilitation as the most important ones facing the urban renewal program.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RENT subsidies; HOUSING satisfaction; LOW-income tenants; SLUM clearance; URBAN policy
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1968, Vol 27, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1968.tb01032.x