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Trickle down [housing] is a pejorative characterization of support for higher-end market-rate housing, or the idea that such housing can benefit lower-income households. Present usage is probably by analogy to the pejorative term "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics trickle-down economics]" used to describe Reagan's economic program. |
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We've found usage of "trickle down," to describe what's later called filtering down of housing (see [[Filtering]]) as far back as 1939, & a burst of usage around end of WWII when post-war housing shortages + remedies were being discussed by policymakers. See: [https://www.google.com/search?q=trickle+down+housing&client=safari&hl=en-us&source=lnt&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:,cd_max:1950&tbm=bks https://www.google.com/search?q=trickle+down+housing&client=safari&hl=en-us&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A%2Ccd_max%3A1950&tbm=bks] |
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Latest revision as of 05:37, 20 August 2019
Trickle down [housing] is a pejorative characterization of support for higher-end market-rate housing, or the idea that such housing can benefit lower-income households. Present usage is probably by analogy to the pejorative term "trickle-down economics" used to describe Reagan's economic program.
We've found usage of "trickle down," to describe what's later called filtering down of housing (see Filtering) as far back as 1939, & a burst of usage around end of WWII when post-war housing shortages + remedies were being discussed by policymakers. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=trickle+down+housing&client=safari&hl=en-us&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A%2Ccd_max%3A1950&tbm=bks