Privatization, Self-Help, and Public Housing Home Ownership in the United States

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The privatization of American low-income housing programs in general, and the sale of public housing in particular, long preceded the Reagan administration (Silver, McDonnell, & Ortiz, 1985). Yet the apparent success of Mrs. Thatcher's “right to buy” policy, resulting in the sale of more than a million British council houses, gave the policy new impetus in the United States during the 1980s. Responding to advocates from New Right think tanks and citing the British experience, the President's Commission on Housing proposed public housing sales in its 1982 report. Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the policy in his 1985 State of the Union Address. That year, ...

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