Date: March 30th, 2005

Untying assistance from tenure choice

30 March, 2005 (09:46) | Uncategorized |

Should housing assistance be linked to particular tenures?  What if the assistance can be better deployed in another tenure? 
 
In the US, rental subsidies fund rental housing, and homeownership subsidies fund homeownership, and never the tenure twain shall meet.  Is this wisdom, habit, or mere prejudice repeated to the level of received wisdom?
 
Section 8 vouchers, […]