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A Decent Home: Housing Policy in Perspective

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John Quigley (University of California at Berkeley)

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This paper provides a selective review of two aspects of urban policy in the U.S. -- federal policy providing housing subsidies for lower income households, and federal support for urban redevelopment and physical renewal. The paper reviews four periods in the history of American housing policy, indicating the major equity and efficiency issues in delivering housing services, the factors affecting program costs, and the development of more effective programs. The paper also traces urban development policy from the urban renewal partnership sponsored by the 1949 Housing Act to the present, indicating the linkage between theories of intergovernmental fiscal relations and the evolution of programs. The analysis is mostly an exercise in positive economics, explicating the development of policies, their economic rationale, and economic consequences. However, inevitably, there is some attention paid to the normative aspects of these programs.

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Paper provided by Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy in its series Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series with number 1038.

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  1. Katherine O'Regan & John Quigley, 2006. "Accessibility and Economic Opportunity," Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series 1003, Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Richard A. Musgrave, 1961. "Approaches to A Fiscal Theory of Political Federalism," NBER Chapters, in: Public Finances: Needs, Sources, and Utilization, pages 97-134 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
  3. Painter, Gary, 1997. "Does Variation in Public Housing Waiting Lists Induce Intra-Urban Mobility?," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 6(3), pages 248-276, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. John Quigley & Steven Raphael & Eugene Smolensky, 2006. "Homelessness in California," Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series 1055, Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Veronica Cacdac Warnock & Francis E. Warnock, 2007. "Markets and Housing Finance," NBER Working Papers 13081, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  8. Jens Ludwig & Greg Duncan & Joshua Pinkston, 2006. "Housing Vouchers and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment," Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series 1032, Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy. [Downloadable!]
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