If properly implemented, the initiatives may contribute to avoiding the self-enforcing mechanisms that typically characterise deprived urban areas (Skirter Andersen, 2005).
This decision was apparently based on the recommendations of another review group, this one headed by Hector Skirter and George Kistiakowsky, who had replaced Killian as Eisenhower's science advisor earlier in the year.
However, in other countries, not least the other Nordic countries, public authorities have to a larger extent been retreating from their dominating role in the housing market (OECD, 1999; Lind, 2001; Skirter Andersen, 2002; ECB, 2003; Luj anen, 2004):