Housing Assistance

Household Composition and Housing Assistance

The living arrangements of public assistance recipients have been a concern of policymakers and researchers alike. Although the effects of welfare on household composition have been studied extensively, relatively little research has examined how housing assistance might relate to household composition. This research explores the relationship between housing assistance and household composition...

Housing assistance and regional disadvantage

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...

Housing assistance and non-shelter outcomes

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This material was produced with funding from the Commonwealth of Australia and the Australian States and Territories. AHURI Ltd gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from the Commonwealth, State and Territory Government, without which this work would not have been possible. DISCLAIMER AHURI Ltd is an independent, non-political body which has ...

Low-Income Housing Assistance: Its Impact on Labor Force and Housing Program Participation

Many studies in the 1970s and 1980s have examined the effects of the welfare system on individual behavior. All of these studies fail to appropriately consider low income housing assistance. Most studies have either ignored housing assistance or have implicitly assumed that there is no rationing in this program. This paper presents a simple model that measures the impact of rationing one public...