The President's Housing Commission and Two Tests of Realistic Recommendations
指出总统住房委员会的两大缺陷:未量化政策成本导致偏见,以及未提供激励减少地方政府限制,对住房政策制定者有警示作用。
The most commendable work of the President's Housing Commission suffered from two major faults. First, the Commission failied to quantify the costs of alternative policies. This led to biased judgments about what forms of housing aids to adopt. The Commission rejected making housing vouchers for poor renters an entitlement program because that would be too costly. But it accepted continuation of present tax benefits for non‐poor homeowners, though they are also entitlements vastly more expensive than the program it rejected. Second, the Commission correctly attacked local government restrictions for causing high housing costs. But it failed to provide any strong incentives for local governments to reduce such restrictions.