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Actual Rent
allowance
Author_E. Jay Howenstine
burden
Canada Mortgage
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ceilings
comparative housing policy
cross national housing subsidy comparison
ECE Country
entitlement program evaluation
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excessive
Excessive Rent Burden
Fair Market Rent
Federal Republic Of Germany
General Income Maintenance
Housing Allowance
Housing Allowance Programs
Housing Allowance Systems
Housing Subsidy
Housing Subsidy Policy
Housing Subsidy Systems
Hugo Priemus
Income Ceiling
Income Security Systems
international rent assistance
Large Families
low income housing studies
minimum
Minimum Rent
Minimum Standard Housing
Private Rental Housing Sector
programs
public policy research
Reasonable Rent
rent
Rent Burden
Rent Ceiling
Rent Control
Rent Rebates
social welfare analysis
standards
subsidy
systems
Product details
- ISBN 9780882851112
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 1986
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Outside the United States, the idea of a consumer housing subsidy is a highly developed concept. Housing allowances, shelter allowances, rent allowances - or rent rebates as they are called - have been paid out on a larger scale for longer periods of time on an entitlement basis, with a much greater variety of rationales than in the United States. As the United States moves ahead with its demonstration program, it is timely to examine and evaluate foreign experiences with the consumer housing approach.E. Jay Howenstine addresses common questions that have puzzled many policymakers: How do consumer housing subsidies work? For tenants? Homeowners? Builders? And government officials? Gathered here is the definitive experience of the countries that have employed them. From Australia to the United Kingdom, here is the reality gleaned from a dozen countries and brought to bear on the United States. Both the virtues and the limitations of the approach are presented in detail for everyone interested in housing.This study is divided into three major parts. First, Howenstine reviews the historical background and analyzes housing allowance strategies that foreign governments have adopted. A second part examines in detail the major principles and elements with which governments have fashioned their systems. The third part examines the impact of housing allowance systems and weighs them in the light of the original objectives. Conclusions are also drawn about foreign experiences: Should financial assistance to low-income families be in the form of consumer housing subsidies or producer housing subsidies, or some synthesis of the two systems? Should the housing allowance be maintained as a separate housing policy, or should it be integrated into a general income maintenance policy? This book addresses an increasingly prominent portion of the housing market.
