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The policy debate on housing assistance is moving from a focus on how to alleviate poverty through decent housing to how to reduce economic dependency more broadly. This book looks at how policymakers have wrestled with the link between housing and social and economic advancement, describes local strategies being used to improve the existing system, and sorts out the possible effects of economic independence on both housing assistance and welfare receipt.

The policy debate on housing assistance is moving from a focus on how to alleviate poverty through decent housing to how to reduce economic dependency more broadly. This book looks at how policymakers have wrestled with the link between housing and social and economic advancement, describes local strategies being used to improve the existing system, and sorts out the possible effects of economic independence on both housing assistance and welfare receipt.

This study examines the relationship between income and housing assistance programs. The welfare system, through the explicit and implicit shelter allowances that welfare recipients receive as a part of their public assistance benefits, spends at least $10 billion a year on housing assistance--roughly the same as the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Yet the two streams of government financing for low-income housing are uncoordinated and frequently overlapping.

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