William G Grigsby
Biographic Data
| ID | 260790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William G Grigsby |
| GIVEN NAMES | William G |
| FAMILY NAME | Grigsby |
| SIGNATURE | GRIGSBY W G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Section 8: The time for fundamental program change?
We argue that Section 8 low‐income rental assistance—now called the Housing Choice Voucher Program—needs to be restructured and integrated with the other elements of the federal safety net for low‐income households. Since the program was introduced in 1974, the quality of the nation's housing stock has continued to improve, to the point that only a very small percentage of it is severely inadequate. Yet low‐income households continue to face prob…
Trying to Understand Low-income Housing Subsidies: Lessons from the United States
This article asks why nations subsidise their low-income housing sectors and offers five reasons: to improve public health; to reduce societal injustice; to preserve the social order; to increase equality of opportunity; and, to accommodate population growth. After discussing those reasons in some detail, they are used as a framework for exploring some salient questions about low-income housing policy in the US. It is suggested that the framework…
Housing Finance and Subsidies in the United States
The dynamic of neighborhood change and decline
Economics
Declining Neighborhoods: Problem or Opportunity
Widespread deterioration and squalid living conditions in many older residential areas in the United States stand in dramatic contrast to the large, comfortable, and attractive residences in the suburbs. The disparity in living environment is not easily explainable in terms of differences in household incomes, since real incomes in many of our older and now unsightly central-city neighborhoods have been generally increasing, not falling. A variet…
Public Housing Policy: Convention versus Reality
Thoughts on poverty and its elimination
Efforts to eliminate poverty as a major domestic problem in the United States have a long history. The attack was significantly heightened in 1964 with the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act, the statute designed as the foundation of the so-called war on poverty. In the succeeding years which have encompassed two national Administrations, one Democratic and the other Republican, a variety of means have been brought to bear on the problem. Pu…
Housing and Slum Clearance: Elusive Goals
Urban renewal in the United States had its genesis in legislation to improve the residential living environ ment for low-income families. Despite this fact, housing and slum-clearance goals have gradually lost their priority among those responsible for formulating public policy. The shift away from residential objectives in renewal appears to stem from the fact the goals are not uniformly held, are interpreted in various ways, are frequently in c…
Housing Markets and Public Policy
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The Demand for Housing in Racially Mixed Areas: A Study of the Nature of Neighborhood Change
Residential Renewal in the Urban Core
Housing Finance and Subsidies in the United States
Trying to Understand Low-income Housing Subsidies: Lessons from the United States
This article asks why nations subsidise their low-income housing sectors and offers five reasons: to improve public health; to reduce societal injustice; to preserve the social order; to increase equality of opportunity; and, to accommodate population growth. After discussing those reasons in some detail, they are used as a framework for exploring some salient questions about low-income housing policy in the US. It is suggested that the framework…
Thoughts on poverty and its elimination
Efforts to eliminate poverty as a major domestic problem in the United States have a long history. The attack was significantly heightened in 1964 with the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act, the statute designed as the foundation of the so-called war on poverty. In the succeeding years which have encompassed two national Administrations, one Democratic and the other Republican, a variety of means have been brought to bear on the problem. Pu…
Declining Neighborhoods: Problem or Opportunity
Widespread deterioration and squalid living conditions in many older residential areas in the United States stand in dramatic contrast to the large, comfortable, and attractive residences in the suburbs. The disparity in living environment is not easily explainable in terms of differences in household incomes, since real incomes in many of our older and now unsightly central-city neighborhoods have been generally increasing, not falling. A variet…
Residential Renewal in the Urban Core
The Demand for Housing in Racially Mixed Areas: A Study of the Nature of Neighborhood Change
Housing Markets and Public Policy
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Housing and Slum Clearance: Elusive Goals
Urban renewal in the United States had its genesis in legislation to improve the residential living environ ment for low-income families. Despite this fact, housing and slum-clearance goals have gradually lost their priority among those responsible for formulating public policy. The shift away from residential objectives in renewal appears to stem from the fact the goals are not uniformly held, are interpreted in various ways, are frequently in c…
Thoughts on poverty and its elimination
Efforts to eliminate poverty as a major domestic problem in the United States have a long history. The attack was significantly heightened in 1964 with the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act, the statute designed as the foundation of the so-called war on poverty. In the succeeding years which have encompassed two national Administrations, one Democratic and the other Republican, a variety of means have been brought to bear on the problem. Pu…
Public Housing Policy: Convention versus Reality
Declining Neighborhoods: Problem or Opportunity
Widespread deterioration and squalid living conditions in many older residential areas in the United States stand in dramatic contrast to the large, comfortable, and attractive residences in the suburbs. The disparity in living environment is not easily explainable in terms of differences in household incomes, since real incomes in many of our older and now unsightly central-city neighborhoods have been generally increasing, not falling. A variet…
Economics
The dynamic of neighborhood change and decline
Housing Finance and Subsidies in the United States
Trying to Understand Low-income Housing Subsidies: Lessons from the United States
This article asks why nations subsidise their low-income housing sectors and offers five reasons: to improve public health; to reduce societal injustice; to preserve the social order; to increase equality of opportunity; and, to accommodate population growth. After discussing those reasons in some detail, they are used as a framework for exploring some salient questions about low-income housing policy in the US. It is suggested that the framework…
Section 8: The time for fundamental program change?
We argue that Section 8 low‐income rental assistance—now called the Housing Choice Voucher Program—needs to be restructured and integrated with the other elements of the federal safety net for low‐income households. Since the program was introduced in 1974, the quality of the nation's housing stock has continued to improve, to the point that only a very small percentage of it is severely inadequate. Yet low‐income households continue to face prob…
Economics (8 works) · Business (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Housing Market and Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Population (3 works)