Residential Alienation, Home Ownership and the Limits of Shelter Policy

Authors

Peter Marcuse, Columbia University

Abstract

There is greater public confusion over housing policy today than there has been in any comparable period in the last thirty years. The Nixon-Ford administration's wholesale program terminations and budget slashes only cloak the problem temporarily. Everyone agrees that the ostrich ought to get his head out of the sand, but few agree where he should go once he doel so. Housing allowances, at this point, seem to many the best answei; at least they haven't been proven wanting yet. But others disagree, and certainly there is reason to be wary.

Recommended Citation

Marcuse, Peter (1975) "Residential Alienation, Home Ownership and the Limits of Shelter Policy," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 3: Iss. 2, Article 10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.1122
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol3/iss2/10