HUD’s Stewardship of National Urban Policy: A Retrospective ViewAbstractOnce again under a threat of dissolution, the 30-year-old U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is being assailed from many sides. HUD’s enemies fail, through ignorance or through cynicism, to acknowledge the importance of the Department’s basic historical mission to guarantee safe, sanitary, and decent housing in a suitable livable environment for all Americans. HUD’s friends see a suicidal tendency in some of the Department’s evasive survival measures that often appear to be cures worse than the disease. Students of HUD, with longer memories and more miles on their HUD-watching odometers, recall having heard all this before and realize that too few people are left who share these recollections clearly.HUD’s Stewardship of National Urban Policy: A Retrospective View (*.pdf, 431 KB)
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