America's Homeless: Victims of Rent Control

Publication Date: January 1989

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

Author(s): William Tucker

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Society

Type: Report

Abstract:

To solve the housing shortage, America's poor must be given an opportunity, as consumers, to take part in the housing market. This means that suburban homeowners and rent-controlled tenants cannot continue to maintain the privileges they have conferred upon themselves at the expense of the poor. Suburban homeowners must be pressed to give up some of their exclusionary zoning practices, and middle-class rent-controlled tenants will have to give up some of the benefits they enjoy at the expense of the poor. There is no other way in which the crisis of homelessness can be solved.