摘要:

Although there is a general agreement among housing analysts that affordability has gotten worse and that overall quality has gotten better, there is some debate on whether the supply of low cost housing is adequate. Based upon available data, this paper takes the view that many local markets have severe shortages of decent, low cost rental housing. After concluding that cash vouchers would not stimulate housing production, and that the unaided private market is not capable of meeting the demand, a preliminary comparison is made between the two previously tried housing supply strategies for low income people: private market with public incentives and direct production and ownership by the public sector. While a lack of systematic data hampers the analysis, the public housing program emerges in a stronger position than the publicly subsidized multi‐family programs that depend on for‐profit developers. However, low rent housing production by community and tenant groups presents a compelling and exciting new strategy that warrants further exploration and support. The paper concludes that a national program should be launched to promote community‐based housing initia

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1985.tb00085.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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This study explores the impacts of publicly and privately funded housing rehabilitation efforts in Cleveland, Ohio. The results show that (1) selective census tracts receiving publicly funded home owner rehabilitation assistance did not experience demographic, economic or property stabilization; (2) private borrowing for housing renovation increases as the number of home owners, median gross rents, median family incomes, median values of owner‐occupied housing and median sales‐to‐median assessed market ratios increase and (3) heterogeneous populations, poverty incomes, high unit vacancies, high tax delinquencies and housing demolitions decrease home owner propensities to borrow for repairs and maintenance. Many neighborhoods have experienced incumbent upgrading, but housing disinvestment and property tax delinquency threatens neighborhood stability. Public intercession is unlikely to influence these real estate market processes because housing disinvestment is merely symptomatic of a deeper economic malaise. Only a dramatic economic upturn can possibly slow housing disinvestment. Otherwise, housing unit removal shall continue unabated, inevitably wrecking neighborhoods and frustrating public ef

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1985.tb00086.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper attempts to measure the effect of a court‐ordered desegregation plan on three aspects of the housing market in Dallas County, Texas. The indicators include sale price, number of sales, and proportion of home sales financed by conventional mortgages. Monthly data from 1969 to 1979 are analyzed using Box‐Jenkins time series models. After best fit models are determined, various intervention terms are introduced into the models to assess the impact of both a 1975 Circuit Court Order and a 1976 District Court Order. The analysis suggests neither order had a measurable effect on the housing market in Dal

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1985.tb00087.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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This research note examines a recent tax credit initiative held in The District of Columbia. At issue was a tax credit of $1,200 per family for each child enrolled in a private school. Thus, parents, or guardians with children enrolled in private schools, stood to receive significant lax reductions. This referendum, if successful, would have had dramatic effects on the tax resources available to the District of Columbia and had a profound impact on public services, especially the schools. The effects of the tax credit initiative outcome would have extended beyond the District. Not only was the DC initiative part of a national tax revolt, it was also visibly located in the nation's capital. Depending on the outcome, the results would have encouraged either supporters or opponents of similar tax protest issues across the country. This paper analyzes the result by examining factors associated with voting. This note also offers some observations on tax issue campaigning and its relationship to influencing voters. Special attention will be addressed to the conception of voter's self‐interest in deciding whether to support or oppose the tax credit issue. In this regard, it will be argued that voter altitudes toward self‐interest, particularly “public regarding” attitudes, are good indicators for explaining t

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1985.tb00088.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The argument is advanced that rental affordability problems are the key symptom of the rental housing crisis. These problems may be measured by the rent‐to‐income ratio as reported by the 1980 census for five different income groups. Of special significance is that these data are available in a standardized form for every county, city and census tract in the nation. To demonstrate the use of these data, a rent burden indicator is constructed from these data and then applied to all counties in Texas with at least 100,000 population. One county, Travis, stands out with a particularly high incidence of rent burden, and this incidence is only slightly reduced when the rent burden indicator is adjusted to a standardized income distribution. This provides clear evidence of an unusually severe rental housing cri

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1985.tb00089.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY