Sheltering the Homeless in New York City

Expansion in an Era of Government Contraction

Bibliographic Data

ID4292193
AuthorsDonna Wilson Kirchheimer (corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume104
Issue4
Pages607-623
Publication date1989-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Science Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2151101
OpenAlexW2331982457
LanguageEN
Citations received8

In the United States, expansion of public social functions was not expected in the 1980s. The growth trend in national social spending contracted after the Reagan administration's Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, which repealed certain benefits and capped the allocations for new block grants. National social expenditure later continued to increase, but the growth was principally in programs that were previously legislated and was rarely due to authorization of new social functions. Research literature suggested it was unlikely that cities would surge forward independently to make a large and rapid addition of a social function. Studies of municipal expenditure change found that U.S. cities were historically preoccupied with their legal obligations to balance their budgets and made only conservative increments at the margin.1 Research on urban politics asserted that the interest of a city's leadership in promoting economic activity created a bias against redistributive policies for low-income residents.2 Moreover, when national policy ex

Contraction (grammar) · Criminology · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing Market and Economics · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Philosophy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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