number 59 • Spring 2024

The Public Interest

How housing regulations cause homelessness

William Tucker

Winter 1991

THE PROBLEM of homelessness in the 1980s has puzzled liberals and conservatives alike. Both have tended to fit the problem into their preconceived views, without looking at what is new and different about the phenomenon. 

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