Preserving Neighborhood Opportunity: Where Federal Housing Subsidies Expire

Subsidies in Housing

Subsidies in housing / Stephen K. Mayo. Includes bibliographical references. p. cm. (Sustainable Development Dept. Technical papers series ; SOC-112) " It complements the Operational Guidelines for Housing, and should be used together " —Presentation. Presentation In 1995 the Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American Development Bank approved an amendment to the Operational Policy for ...

Federal Tax Arrears: Liquidity Problems, Federal Subsidies, or Regional Protection

The paper was prepared under the research program "Transforming Government in Economies in Transition" (GET) sponsored by the Ford Foundation (Grant No950-1503), project "Enterprise Financing and the Role of the Government". Earlier draft entitled: “Do Governors Protect Firms From Paying Federal Taxes?” We are very grateful to Ahmed Ahmedov, David Brown, Sergei Guriev, Evgeny Orlov, Elena Palts...

Neighborhood Effects and Housing

Do Low-Income Housing Subsidies Increase the Occupied Housing Stock?

A necessary condition for justifying a policy such as subsidized low-income housing, either via tenant-based rental assistance or construction of public or private projects, is that it has a real effect on market outcomes. In this paper, we examine one aspect of the real effect of subsidized housing – does it increase the housing stock? If subsidized housing raises the quantity of occupied hous...

Housing Subsidies in a Measure of Poverty

The objective of this paper is to review available research regarding the valuation of housing subsidies for inclusion in a measure of poverty. The introduction reviews the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance (the panel), which motivate most of the subsequent research. The second section describes the valuation method currently used i...