Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: Accessibility, local public goods, and welfare

Public Housing: The Experimental Housing Allowance Program

The financial impact of welfare targeting in public housing

• Largely because of increased welfare targeting since the early 1990s, around 88% all public housing tenants in South Australia and Victoria pay concessional rents (compared to around 70% in the 1990s). This change has resulted in an annual cost to revenues (compared to 1990) of approximately $32 million in Victoria and $28 million in South Australia. This translates to $200 million for all pu...

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 Assistance, Public Transportation, and the Welfare-to-Work Transition

Using data for welfare recipients who left the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program during 1996 in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), Ohio, the authors compare the determinants of labor market outcomes across three classes of housing assistance: those who receive a certificate or voucher, those who reside in a traditional public housing project, and those who reside in a Section 8 housing ...

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