Here’s my general view of housing subsidies: Allow the market to produce as much housing as possible, when price falls more people are able to pay for housing, those that can’t are subsidized with direct cash payments, and only those with the greatest needs would have built housing solutions with intensive case management. Deregulation of housing is subsidy because when there is more supply, price goes down. But what about just paying the rent? 

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