Housing in the Seventies Working Papers 2. National Housing Policy Review

摘要

One of a two - volume set of working papers, produced in response to a 1973 Presidential directive, this anthology organizes the contributions under the following categories: (1) building codes, (2) housing subsidies and housing markets, (3) tax law, (4) rehabilitation and preservation, (5) housing production, (6) housing revenue sharing, (7) housing allowances, (8) equal opportunity, and (9) general. Specific topics include building codes for manufactured housing and the influence of model codes on local builders' acceptance of innovative technology, housing subsidies and their influence on housing starts, and the social aspects of Federal low - income housing. Also discussed are existing and proposed tax regulations related to real estate development and investment, rationales for homeowners' tax benefits, tax credits as a housing assistance system, rehabilitation versus redevelopment, and scattered versus concentrated housing rehabilitation. An evaluation of a proposed shallow subsidy rental housing production program is presented, as is a study of housing revenue sharing funds. Other topics include the benefits of direct loans versus interest rate subsidies, attitudes of State and local government and the general public toward federally subsidized housing, alternative mortgage forms, and consumer preferences in housing. A parent report developed on the basis of the working papers was published in 1973.