Public Opinion in California

How do California residents feel about public housing? One indicator of
public opinion are the resluts of a survey reported to the Odum Institute between
the years of 1979 and 1991. The Odum Institute is the third largest archive in the
United States of social science data available in computer readable form.
Reviewing the results of this study can give us an idea of how (or even if) public
opinion changes over time. The survey examined whether adult residents of
California felt that tax money (at the state level) for public housing should be
increased, held the same, or decreased.
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