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Comments on Jeff R. Crump's ‘The end of public housing as we know it: public housing policy, labor regulation and the US city’

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Jeff Crump's discussion of housing policy in the United States is highly polemic but not very analytic or informative. Crump argues that federal housing policy is attempting to move people out of public housing and into the private housing market and the lowwage labor force. However, he fails to support his argument with credible evidence. My comments point out the most egregious of Crump's claims. I start with Crump's most extreme contentions that housing policy is coercing public housing residents into the low‐wage labor force. I then question his dismissive attitude toward the problems confronted by residents of distressed public housing and policies designed to help low‐income families move out of impoverished neighborhoods. I subsequently show how Crump exaggerates the extent to which federal housing policy is clearing central cities of subsidized low‐income housing. I conclude with a few words on the serious issues that a more informed critique of US housing policy could have raised. L'exposé de Jeff Crump sur la politique du logement aux Etats‐Unis relève principalement de la polémique, plus que de l'analyse ou de l'information. Selon lui, la politique fédérale tente de déplacer la population des logements sociaux vers les marchés de l'habitat privé et de la main‐d'œuvre à bas salaires. Toutefois, il n'apporte aucune preuve crédible à son propos. Ma réaction porte sur ses arguments les plus insignes, en commençant par ses allégations extrémistes selon lesquelles la politique du logement contraint les habitants des logements publics à des emplois peu rémunérés. Je remets ensuite en cause son dédain à l'égard des difficultés que rencontrent les résidents des logements sociaux insalubres, sans oublier les politiques prévues pour aider les familles à faibles revenus à quitter les quartiers pauvres. En conséquence, à mon avis, Crump exagère la mesure dans laquelle la politique fédérale élimine des centres‐villes les habitats à loyer modéré subventionnés. En quelques mots, ma conclusion porte sur les questions graves qu'aurait pu soulever un commentateur mieux documenté sur la politique du logement aux Etats‐Unis.

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  • Alex Schwartz, 2003. "Comments on Jeff R. Crump's ‘The end of public housing as we know it: public housing policy, labor regulation and the US city’," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(1), pages 188-192, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:27:y:2003:i:1:p:188-192
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00439
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    1. Jeff R. Crump, 2003. "Rejoinder: Alex Schwartz's critique of ‘The end of public housing as we know it’," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(1), pages 193-195, March.

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