Housing Need and Demand Assessment: Focused on Public Housing Development Projects

Are Public Housing Projects Good for Kids?

One goal of federal housing policy is to improve the prospects of children in poor families. This paper examines the effect of public housing participation on housing quality and educational attainment. Using the SIPP, we show that living in projects is associated with more negative outcomes for children, although this appears to be due to unobserved heterogeneity. We control for the endogeneit...

Public Housing: The Experimental Housing Allowance Program

Housing Demand and Neighborhood Choice with Housing Vouchers

One goal of the U.S. housing voucher program, as an alternative to public housing subsidies, is to help participants gain access to decent neighborhoods. I find that in a typical implementation of the program, participants in the housing voucher program live in better neighborhoods than public housing residents, but in lower-quality neighborhoods compared to unsubsidized households eligible for...

Public Housing: An Introspective Study on Public Housing and Its Effects on Health and Well-being

Rent Assistance and Housing Demand

1 Tlie authoxs thank paitidpants at a seminar in Konstanz fox theii comments. Reraain-ing eirors are ours. The Cential Bureau of Statistics ptovided the data. Abstract We examine the effect of a rent subsidy program, Rent Assistance, on the demand for rental housing in The Netherlands. Low-income households with a rent that exceeds a norm rent, but is smaller than a maximum rent are eligible fo...