How Housing Allowances Affect Housing Markets: Supply Experiment Interim Findings. Housing Assistance Supply Experiment

摘要

The Housing Assistance Supply Experiment report explores how a housing allowance program affects local housing markets and discusses the factors that explain these observed effects on housing prices, neighborhood change, and market intermediaries. Because of widespread preexperimental conjectures concerning the possible adverse effects that a full-scale program could generate, two north central metropolitan counties, Brown County, Wis., and St. Joseph County, Ind., were chosen for their contrasting market conditions. The housing markets of the counties differed in initial market condition, submarket structure, and housing quality.