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The previous chapter dealt with the various policies that can be employed to remove slum housing. However, in the course of the discussion it was pointed out that for a policy to eliminate slum conditions successfully it will need to combine the physical process of redevelopment or improvement with financial provisions to assist low-income households. Without this assistance slums can be expected to reappear elsewhere as these households will be unable to afford good-quality housing. There are a number of ways in which this assistance can be extended to low-income households to enable them to obtain satisfactory housing. In Britain the direct provision of Local Authority (LA) housing at rents below the market level has been the major policy used in this connection.
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Robinson, R. (1979). Local Authority Housing. In: Housing Economics and Public Policy. Studies in Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16069-3_8
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