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Issues in Indian Housing: A Background Paper
This background paper examines Federal efforts to provide housing to Indians on reservations and provides a discussion of issues that have arisen with regard to the administration of Indian housing programs by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a trustee, the Federal Government is obligated to assure that Federal services are provided to reservation Indians. Federal housing programs are generally designed to rely on private investment, but the insecurity of investment on inalienable lands, along with the low incomes of most reservation residents are significant disincentives to the establishment of a private housing market for Indians on reservations. A history of HUD's Indian housing programs is presented and sources of information on Indians and Indian housing are noted. Issues that have emerged from a review of Federal efforts to provide housing services for Indians are a lack of interagency coordination, a lack of a well-defined HUD administrative structure for dealing with Indian housing programs, the development cost of Indian housing, inadequacies of the existing housing stock, failure to achieve housing production goals, deficiencies in program design and structure, and management problems associated with Indian housing authorities. The paper evaluates factors affecting HUD's ability to deliver adequate housing to reservation Indians. A catalog of Indian housing studies and policy papers and regional issue summaries are appended.
Issues in Indian Housing: A Background Paper
This background paper examines Federal efforts to provide housing to Indians on reservations and provides a discussion of issues that have arisen with regard to the administration of Indian housing programs by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a trustee, the Federal Government is obligated to assure that Federal services are provided to reservation Indians. Federal housing programs are generally designed to rely on private investment, but the insecurity of investment on inalienable lands, along with the low incomes of most reservation residents are significant disincentives to the establishment of a private housing market for Indians on reservations. A history of HUD's Indian housing programs is presented and sources of information on Indians and Indian housing are noted. Issues that have emerged from a review of Federal efforts to provide housing services for Indians are a lack of interagency coordination, a lack of a well-defined HUD administrative structure for dealing with Indian housing programs, the development cost of Indian housing, inadequacies of the existing housing stock, failure to achieve housing production goals, deficiencies in program design and structure, and management problems associated with Indian housing authorities. The paper evaluates factors affecting HUD's ability to deliver adequate housing to reservation Indians. A catalog of Indian housing studies and policy papers and regional issue summaries are appended.
Issues in Indian Housing: A Background Paper
D. Kaminsky (author)
1977
56 pages
Report
No indication
English
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