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Perverse Incentives

Jesse Walker | 12.4.2002 10:11 AM


Scatter-site housing programs are often praised as a step up from dysfunctional shelter systems. They pose problems of their own, though: Sometimes, they're a subsidy for slumlords.

Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.