Housing quality incentives depend on neighborhood character, demanding area-based planning

Evidence

In any event, because the private incentive to achieve and maintain good housing is related to the character of the surrounding neighborhood, a housing program should be planned in terms of neighborhood areas. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 408

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how individual housing investment is a collective good hostage to neighborhood conditions — an essay on why housing codes fail or succeed at block scale.
• XREF: connects to: A single housing code standard cannot serve both slums and conservation areas — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 236; Housing regulation disputes hinge on whether standards mean health or decency, not mere enforcement — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 399; Federal aid conditioned local housing codes on workable anti-slum programs — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 227 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Wealth-based neighborhood targeting can legally redirect homeownership subsidies #expands (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 242