Landlord Knowledge and Evaluation of Housing Allowances: St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1975

摘要

This study is part of HUD's Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE) examination of program awareness and evaluation among household heads and landlords in St. Joseph County, IN. The survey was addressed to a multistage, stratified, random sample of 3,025 rental residential properties and resulted in 1,915 completed interviews. This report deals with landlord awareness, attitudes, and expectations concerning the housing allowance program before open enrollment began. It describes salient characteristics of the landlord population and explores how they affected diffusion of information about the program and the formation of attitudes toward it. About four-fifths of all knowledgeable landlords were either favorably disposed or neutral toward the housing allowance program. However, verbatim responses suggest that landlord support was more tentative than that of other favorably inclined households.