The Outlook for the Metropolitan Area

Publication Date: February 1997

Publisher: Furman Center for Real Estate

Author(s): Dick Netzer

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Housing policy; Land use; Affordable Housing

Type: Article

Abstract:

Much of the discourse about regional and local economic development strategies in the United States over the past twenty-five years has looked like a search for general rules. Very few such rules have emerged, in part because—like all policy debates—there have been large inputs of ideology and self-interest, as well as professional inquiry, but in part because the appropriate strategies really are time- and place-specific.