Les Jones

Economics > Housing Vouchers vs. Low-income Housing

FEMA's original plan was to house hurricane evacuees in trailer cities. That plan came under immediate criticism. FEMA quickly changed that plan to one based on rental vouchers

Michael Barone notes that the liberal National Low Income Housing Coalition agrees with the revised decision, and supports housing vouchers over public housing (.pdf file) in general. Says Barone:

Two and three generations ago, liberals supported large public housing projects. Most of those turned out to be dismal failures, and very many have been torn down. Now liberals like the NLIHC and conservatives like George W. Bush seem to have ended up in roughly the same place on the issue at hand, housing for hurricane evacuees. Interesting.