Public Housing: From Tenants to Homeowners

Publication Date: June 1984

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Stuart M. Butler

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Welfare

Type: Report

Abstract:

The program suggested is not a proposal to sell off public housing to developers or suburban homesteaders. It is a device to provide ownership opportunities for existing tenants of public housing projects.. If successful, it could transform some of the most troublesome communities in the nation's urban areas. It draws on the known successes of tenant management associations and that powerful ingredient of commitment to neighborhood--ownership. Turning public housing tenants into homeowners in this way would utilize the strengths and ownership dreams of residents themselves to help overcome the debilitating problem of America's inner cities.