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Rural Housing Needs and Barriers: The Case of Central Appalachia*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Brady J. Deaton  and
Charles E. Hanrahan
Brady J. Deaton
Affiliation:
The University of Tennessee
Charles E. Hanrahan
Affiliation:
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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The nation's housing needs are a subject of major public concern – and rightfully so. The 1970 Census revealed 2.5 million substandard houses in nonmetropolitan areas inhabited by almost 13 million people. Two earlier major government reports presented a picture of unfulfilled housing needs, and the pervasive social, economic, political and institutional obstacles to meeting these needs.

Unfortunately, despite the pressing nature of substandard housing illuminated in these reports, few researchers have responded with serious analysis of the problem. Only passing attention to housing needs was given by the President's Poverty Commission, even though the quality of housing is widely recognized as a key indicator of economic development and the quality of living.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , July 1973 , pp. 59 - 67
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1973

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This research effort was supported jointly by the Commission on Religion in Appalachia, Knoxville, Tennessee, and the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, and was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Kurt R. Anschel, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky.

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