Housing Policy What went Wrong
Date of Award
2007
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Fitzgerald, Keith
Keywords
Housing, Institutions, Discourse
Area of Concentration
Political Science
Abstract
While tracing the narrow, overlapping, political, cultural and economic paradigms that contributed to what went wrong with federal housing policy; three related trends have emerged. First, since housing was identified as an appropriate realm of government action, a strong bifurcation has existed, separating the institutions which support middle and upper class polities from those of the working classes and the poor. Once relegated to the bottom tier of a bifurcated policy framework, public housing did not attain the necessary funding or political momentum to become broadly accepted as an alternative to indirect or stealth incentives for private housing production. Second, in the nested context of a bifurcated policy framework, bureaucratic efforts to avoid political conflict often undermined public housing possibilities by consistently missing opportunities to forge bureaucratic autonomy. Third, entrepreneurial politicians used elite access to communities of discourse to limit the rhetorical tools available to public housing advocates while ensconcing the primacy of private enterprise into the legislative vocabulary
Recommended Citation
Lichtenberger, Adam, "Housing Policy What went Wrong" (2007). Theses & ETDs. 3819.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/3819
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