Reagan's Federal Housing Policy
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Upon entering office, President Reagan proposed a funda mental shift in federal housing policy, the ultimate intent of which was to eliminate a federal role in the supply of housing (Congressional Quarterly, 1986). As a consequence, he refused to approve any legislation which created new federal housing programs, or increased funding for existing federal housing programs (Congressional Quarterly, 1988). In fact, in most instances, he refused to sign into law any housing legislation which did not either reduce federal housing funding, or, in some way, limit the scope of federal activity in the provision of housing. Although both houses of Congress were able to pass bills expanding federal funding for housing with large majori ties (even in the Republican controlled Senate during the 1981 1982 time period), the Senate was never able to override a Rea gan veto of a housing bill (even after the Republicans lost their majority position in that house).It was not until 1987 that President Reagan finally agreed to sign a bill which included some modest funding increases for federal housing programs in the 1988 and 1989 fiscal years (Congressional Quarterly, 1988). The President agreed to these increases, in order to obtain an expansion of the voucher pro gram for low income housing assistance. Thus, the federal housing policy during the tenure of the Reagan Administration was largely Reagan policy. Most federal housing programs existing when Reagan entered office did r
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of the homeless. Con versely, the Reagan Administration's political agenda had no room for the homeless. Acknowledging their existence would have created both budgetary and policy problems (Ehrlich, 1988). As a consequence, the Reagan Administration attempted to define the homeless out of existence, by contending that most of the homeless are simply persons temporarily between 7permanent residences. The Department of Housing and Urban Development attempted to minimize the scope of the problem (Ehrlich, 1988) an approach eagerly endorsed by many in the nation's business community, who worried that an acknowledge ment of a major homelessness problem will translate into higher federal taxes (Magnet, 1987).
An accurate estimate of the number of homeless persons likely falls at some point between the estimates of the advo cacy groups and those of the federal government, that is some where between 400 thousand and three million at any given time. A mid point between these estimates would place about three quarters of one percent of the American population in the home less classification some point within a given year. That level is significant in terms of both absolute numbers and population proportion.
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