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A Rationale for Government Intervention in Housing: Housing as a "Merit Good"



Report Acceptance Date: 
June 1973 (55 pages)
Posted Date:   
November 1, 2022



An entry in the National Housing Policy Study Papers, this historic document is #31 in the series, an entry in Volume 3, Background Studies. It makes an ideological and economic argument for government's involvement in the housing sector. This paper was commissioned by HUD.


This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.