Housing

As of this writing, the Carter administration has given few clues to its housing policy. On the one hand, both President Carter and new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris are committed to deal with the urgent housing problems of low- and moderate-income people. On the other hand, the President is committed to a balanced budget by 1980. The two commitments are incompatible: it simply is impossible to make a meaningful impact on low- and moderate-income housing n...