ABSTRACT
Public housing aids the undeserving poor, as do home relief and aid to dependent children. Public housing affects only one class and a much smaller proportion of the total population. The rent subsidy proposal demonstrates a failure to see public housing in relation to the poor as members of a community, and to see the community in terms of its class characteristics. To establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment thereof, to provide Federal aid to assist slum-clearance projects and low rent public housing projects initiated by local agencies, and for other purposes. Conventionally public housing is placed in the broad category of "welfare," and so Medicare is assumed to be basically similar to housing as public programs. To the extent that Medicare and public housing represent recognition of material needs that can only be filled by some sort of government intervention, these are similar programs.
