Wednesday, January 9, 2013

How U.S. Housing Policy Leaves Low-Income Americans Behind

How U.S. Housing Policy Leaves Low-Income Americans Behind: Smart Growth America released a new report yesterday — first picked up by Grist — that highlights the way federal housing policy is grossly tilted to the benefit of the well-off. Between loans, tax expenditures, and subsidies, the federal government spent approximately $2.23 trillion on housing from 2007 to 2011. Most of that was in [...]/p