The Public Interest

The successes and failures of federal housing policy

Anthony Downs

Winter 1974

TO ASSESS the effectiveness of federal housing-related policies in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, it is necessary to make some arbitrary distinctions, heroic assumptions, and controversial judgments. The first arbitrary distinction is to divide all federal housing-related policies into the following four categories...

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