Comments on Jeff R. Crump's 'The end of public housing as we know it: public housing policy, labor regulation and the US city' Export

@article{citeulike:2198709, abstract = {Jeff Crump's discussion of housing policy in the United States is highly polemic but not very analytic or informative. Crump argues that federal housing policy is attempting to move people out of public housing and into the private housing market and the lowwage labor force. However, he fails to support his argument with credible evidence. My comments point out the most egregious of Crump's claims. I start with Crump's most extreme contentions that housing policy is coercing public housing residents into the low-wage labor force. I then question his dismissive attitude toward the problems confronted by residents of distressed public housing and policies designed to help low-income families move out of impoverished neighborhoods. I subsequently show how Crump exaggerates the extent to which federal housing policy is clearing central cities of subsidized low-income housing. I conclude with a few words on the serious issues that a more informed critique of US housing policy could have raised. L'expose de Jeff Crump sur la politique du logement aux Etats-Unis releve principalement de la polemique, plus que de l'analyse ou de l'information. Selon lui, la politique federale tente de deplacer la population des logements sociaux vers les marches de l'habitat prive et de la main-d'oeuvre a bas salaires. Toutefois, il n'apporte aucune preuve credible a son propos. Ma reaction porte sur ses arguments les plus insignes, en commencant par ses allegations extremistes selon lesquelles la politique du logement contraint les habitants des logements publics a des emplois peu remuneres. Je remets ensuite en cause son dedain a l'egard des difficultes que rencontrent les residents des logements sociaux insalubres, sans oublier les politiques prevues pour aider les familles a faibles revenus a quitter les quartiers pauvres. En consequence, a mon avis, Crump exagere la mesure dans laquelle la politique federale elimine des centres-villes les habitats a loyer modere subventionnes. En quelques mots, ma conclusion porte sur les questions graves qu'aurait pu soulever un commentateur mieux documente sur la politique du logement aux Etats-Unis.}, author = {Schwartz, Alex}, citeulike-article-id = {2198709}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2427.00439}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00439}, doi = {10.1111/1468-2427.00439}, journal = {International Journal of Urban and Regional Research}, keywords = {housing, usa}, number = {1}, pages = {188--192}, posted-at = {2008-01-05 23:42:01}, priority = {2}, title = {Comments on Jeff R. Crump's 'The end of public housing as we know it: public housing policy, labor regulation and the US city'}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00439}, volume = {27}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2198709 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2198709 N2 - Jeff Crump's discussion of housing policy in the United States is highly polemic but not very analytic or informative. Crump argues that federal housing policy is attempting to move people out of public housing and into the private housing market and the lowwage labor force. However, he fails to support his argument with credible evidence. My comments point out the most egregious of Crump's claims. I start with Crump's most extreme contentions that housing policy is coercing public housing residents into the low-wage labor force. I then question his dismissive attitude toward the problems confronted by residents of distressed public housing and policies designed to help low-income families move out of impoverished neighborhoods. I subsequently show how Crump exaggerates the extent to which federal housing policy is clearing central cities of subsidized low-income housing. I conclude with a few words on the serious issues that a more informed critique of US housing policy could have raised. L'expose de Jeff Crump sur la politique du logement aux Etats-Unis releve principalement de la polemique, plus que de l'analyse ou de l'information. Selon lui, la politique federale tente de deplacer la population des logements sociaux vers les marches de l'habitat prive et de la main-d'oeuvre a bas salaires. Toutefois, il n'apporte aucune preuve credible a son propos. Ma reaction porte sur ses arguments les plus insignes, en commencant par ses allegations extremistes selon lesquelles la politique du logement contraint les habitants des logements publics a des emplois peu remuneres. Je remets ensuite en cause son dedain a l'egard des difficultes que rencontrent les residents des logements sociaux insalubres, sans oublier les politiques prevues pour aider les familles a faibles revenus a quitter les quartiers pauvres. En consequence, a mon avis, Crump exagere la mesure dans laquelle la politique federale elimine des centres-villes les habitats a loyer modere subventionnes. En quelques mots, ma conclusion porte sur les questions graves qu'aurait pu soulever un commentateur mieux documente sur la politique du logement aux Etats-Unis. IS - 1 JF - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research EP - 192 TI - Comments on Jeff R. Crump's 'The end of public housing as we know it: public housing policy, labor regulation and the US city' VL - 27 SP - 188 KW - housing KW - usa AU - Schwartz, Alex PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00439 ER -