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May 1986

Foreign housing voucher systems: evolution and strategies

E. Jay Howenstine

European governments have historically used housing allowance concepts with various strategies depending on the given definition of "mostly needy;" models include those with priority given to large families, the elderly, and the handicapped, and a model based on labor mobility.

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