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A Review of Three Models For Enforcing Housing Codes
Corbett, Angus
Corbett, Angus
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2017-04-04
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Center for Public Health Law Research (Temple University Beasley School of Law)
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/7454
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This draft memo, prepared by Angus Corbett, addresses the question of how local governments can enforce housing codes to enable low-income tenants to live in safe and healthy housing. It reviews the market for low-cost rental housing and provides an outline of the “dynamics” of this market. The memo identifies three models in use for enforcing housing codes: the “deterrence” model, the strategic code enforcement model and a meta-regulation model. The memo uses regulatory theory to analyze the interaction between each of these models and the dynamics of the low-cost rental market for housing. This analysis reveals that local governments often enforce housing codes in ways that reinforce practices that result in low-income tenants living in unsafe and unhealthy housing. It also identifies the potential for local governments to use enforcement to influence the dynamics of the low-cost market for rental housing to enable low-income tenants to live safety and healthy housing. These enforcement approaches require collaboration between local and state governments, the federal government and community organizations.
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Corbett, Angus, A Review of Three Models for Enforcing Housing Codes, Ctr. for Pub. Health L. Rsch. (Apr. 4, 2017), https://phlr.org/product/review-three-models-enforcing-housing-codes.
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