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Affordable Housing




A Ford Foundation Program Paper on the growing housing crisis for low-income families and public and private efforts to resolve it.

Ford Foundation
1989
57 pages


Contents
Preface
America's Housing: a Short Look Ahead, a Long Look Back
Public Intervention
Achievements
Failures
The Problem
Housing Affordability and Income Trends
The Cost of Housing
Homelessness
Quality of Low-Income Housing
Rural Housing
Projections of Future Need
Support for Housing
The 1960S: the Great Society
The 1970S: the End of Supply-Side Programs
Recession in the Early 1980S
Promising Local Responses
Future Directions for the Ford Foundation
Widen The National Policy Debate
Assist Nonprofit Housing Developers
Link Emergency Shelter and Permanent Housing
Conclusion
Notes
Appendixes
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H