Like Spence he is skeptical that mixed - income projects will ever meet the needs of more than a tiny proportion of the poor, and he suggests that the best, though imperfect, policy might be a
system of housing
vouchers that disperses the poor by providing them with a
subsidy with which to seek housing in the private market.
These
subsidies have not only improved education for the students who attend the schools of choice, but study after study has shown that kids who remain in public school also benefit when a
voucher system is instituted and schools are forced to compete for students.