US Federal housing expenditures: Difference between revisions

It is often said that United States Federal spending on low-income housing was ''cut dramatically, by 2/3 or more, in the early 1980s'' as part of President Ronald Reagan's general scaleback of social-services spending. This has long and influentially been asserted, for example, by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, and the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) in their "Without Housing" campaign: see "Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures" [WRAP 2010]. This view is widely expressed by housing advocates and major media; and also often given as the primary explanation for the rise in US homelessness in the 1980s: see., e.g. [Yentel (LIHC), 2018] and [Emily Badger, ''New York Times'', 2019].