Rental Housing Assistance

Section 8 project-based rental assistance: the potential loss of affordable federally subsidized housing stock.

Background Using Section 8 project-based rental assistance contracts, HUD contracts with for-profit owners of private multifamily housing, who in turn make specific rental properties available to qualified low-income households. Typically, the subsidy will pay the difference between 30 percent of the household’s income and the contract rent; this subsidy is paid by HUD to the landlord. Approxim...

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...

Rental housing discrimination and the persistence of ethnic enclaves

We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for the residential mobility of immigrants and contributes to the ethnic residential segregation observed in large cities. We employ the Internet platform to identify vacant rental apartments in different areas of the two largest Spanish cities, Madrid and Barcelona. We send emails s...