Bernard J. Frieden, in The Public Interest (Spring 1980) Box 542, Old Chelsea, New York, N.Y. 1001 1.
Providing the poor with good quality housing has been a high priority of the federal government since the New Deal era. But a recent federal experiment suggests that low-income people are troubled most high rents. So reports Frieden, a professor of urban studies at MIT.
Beginning in 1973, the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment offered cash payments averaging $75 a month to poor tenants...