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In this article we will review various discussions of these point, and what evidence or viewpoints may support the conclusion that low-income funding housing was or was not greatly reduced.
== (1) Total direct spending outlays, and also ''tax expenditures,'' have risen mostly steadily and at least 100% since 1980. ==
US Federal expenditures on low-income housing have increased substantially, in absolute and inflation-adjusted dollar terms, from the 1970s through Reagan's presidency, and to 2019. They have increased substantially in ''direct expenditures ''(spending ''outlays'', mostly through [[United_States_Department_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development_(HUD)|US Department of Housing and Urban Development]]), and additionally via ''tax expenditures ''with the [[Low-Income_Housing_Tax_Credit|Low Income Housing Tax Credit]] (LIHTC) program established in 1986. Also, the number of households receiving some type of low-income housing support has increased significantly [citation needed].
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c) a view is that the Federal government has effectively withdrawn or disinvested from regulated-affordable housing because it has not nearly met the much-increased need, which it pledged to do for example with the [https://www.yimby.wiki/wiki/Right_to_housing#Preamble_to_the_1949_Housing_Act.C2.A0 1949 Housing Act]. <br/>
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A key proponent of the argument that US post-1980s homelessness is caused by reduced Federal spending has been WRAP. <br/> <br/> "In 2006, WRAP published a Without Housing report that clearly showed the world why America’s 'approach' to ending homelessness has been overwhelmingly ineffective. In 2010, we updated the report, now available in both English and Spanish.
"the historical policy decision made under the Reagan administration to defund the federal production and subsidization of affordable housing is the primary cause of contemporary mass homelessness."
In the beginning of 2012 WRAP created a Organizers’ Toolkit, we offer it here to any community based organizing effort, be it Rural or Urban. We offer it in order to preserve and build on what we already know to be fact and we will add to it as we move forward in the work we are doing." ▼
WRAP's argument appears to be based once again on Budget Authority figures for HUD. See section "HUD Budget Outlays vs Budget Authority" further below on why this is a misleading measure of 'funding'.
Western Regional Advocacy Project - WRAP. (2010). "Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures." San Francisco: WRAP, 2010. [https://wraphome.org//wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Without-Housing.pdf. https://wraphome.org//wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Without-Housing.pdf. ]▼
[[File:WRAP-Without-Housing-report-2010 budget-chart.png|alt=WRAP "Without Housing" report 2010, Federal budgets chart|none|thumb|700x700px|WRAP "Without Housing" report 2010, Federal budgets chart]]
▲source: Western Regional Advocacy Project - WRAP. (2010). "Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures." San Francisco: WRAP, 2010.
▲"In the beginning of 2012 WRAP created a Organizers’ Toolkit, we offer it here to any community based organizing effort, be it Rural or Urban. We offer it in order to preserve and build on what we already know to be fact and we will add to it as we move forward in the work we are doing."
[https://wraphome.org/organizing/organizingtoolkit/ https://wraphome.org/organizing/organizingtoolkit/]
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[[File:HUD-budget-1976-2007-NLIHC-chart.png|thumb|left|800px|HUD expenditures, 1976-2007, from NLIHC 2002]]
<div style="clear: both">Dolbeare, Cushing N<sup>1</sup>., and Sheila Crowley<sup>2</sup> (2002). "Changing Priorities: The Federal Budget and Housing Assistance 1976-2007." National Low Income Housing Coalition, August 2002. [https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Changing-Priorities-Report_August-2002.pdf. https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Changing-Priorities-Report_August-2002.pdf. ]<br /> <sup>1</sup>Founder and Chair Emeritus, National Low Income Housing Coalition<br /> <sup>2</sup>President, National Low Income Housing Coalition. </div>
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<br/> Rice, Douglas. "Chart Book: Cuts in Federal Assistance Have Exacerbated Families’ Struggles to Afford Housing." Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 12, 2016.<br/> [https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/chart-book-cuts-in-federal-assistance-have-exacerbated-families-struggles-to-afford https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/chart-book-cuts-in-federal-assistance-have-exacerbated-families-struggles-to-afford].
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