Editing Public housing (section)

==== Turn to subsidized housing ====
In the 60s and 70s, the popularization of neoliberalism caused a turn away from public sector solutions towards private or public-private solutions. This, in conjunction with the narrative of public housing being obsolete, led to both the turn away from public housing and towards subsidized housing solutions.

Houses, apartments or other residential units are usually subsidized on a rent-geared-to-income (RGI) basis. Some communities have now embraced a mixed income, with both assisted and market rents, when allocating homes as they become available.

A significant change in the program took place in 1969, with the passage of the Brooke Amendment. Rents now became set at 25% of a tenant's income with the result that the program began serving the "poorest tenants."

Other attempts to solve these problems include the 1974<ref>1974 Housing and Community Development Act</ref> [[Section 8 (housing)|Section 8]] Housing Program, which encourages the private sector to construct affordable homes, and subsidized public housing.  This assistance can be "project-based", subsidizing properties, or "tenant-based", which provides tenants with a voucher, accepted by some landlords. This policy option represented a turn away from the public-sector policy of public housing, instead turning towards the private market to address housing needs. The program, in conjunction with HOPE VI, was intended to create income-integrated communities, by giving residents the choice of where to move'''<ref name=":0"/>'''. However, the housing voucher program has historically had long wait times and limited choice on where one can actually move'''<ref name=":03">{{Cite journal |last=Teater |first=Barbra |date=May 3, 2018 |title=A Place to Call "Home": Exploring the Experiences of Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program Recipients in Their Efforts to Find Housing |url=https://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3892 |journal=Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=271–278 |doi=10.1606/1044-3894.3892 |via=Sage Journals}}</ref>'''. Additionally, it was found that many people of color did not want to move away from their families, communities, and systems of support, as well as experiencing stigma and difficulties with landlords, safety, or expenses'''<ref name=":03" />'''. This leads to the program doing little to actually create a more racially-integrated city demographics, mostly reproducing inequality while simultaneously not having enough valid housing units for the long list of applicants'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rosen |first=Eva |title=The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |year=2020}}</ref>'''.