ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and offers a preliminary assessment of the feasibility, in a political/administrative sense, of the program proposals. It focuses on the general results of the meetings and on what these results seem to imply for the recommended innovations in housing policy in the city. To the extent that proposed housing policies are in fact innovative, they imply, as one by-product, a reallocation of values within the community of housing interests, and also within the community as a whole. This is so for two reasons. First, when a housing policy is implemented–when it becomes a reality and not just an idea–it leads to the growth of organizations responsible for its administration. Second, for every policy in housing, existing or proposed, there is some consumer clientele of relevant interest, either real or potential. It follows that innovations in policy must result in a rearrangement of existing institutions and in a new distribution of burdens and benefits.
