Residential Mobility of Housing Allowance Recipients. Housing Assistance Supply Experiment

摘要

Unlike most other housing subsidies, housing allowances are portable; this component of the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment describes the influence of 'portability' on the residential mobility of allowance recipients during the experiment's first 2 years. It develops a new statistical procedure that analyzes 'censored' residential histories and applies the procedure to early mobility data. In the 2 experimental sites (Brown County, Wis., and St. Joseph County, Ind.), 9,100 households received housing allowances during the first 2 years. Only 1,900 of these recipients (20 percent) moved while enrolled in the program. Statistically transforming the data into annual probabilities of moving vary sharply with household characteristics and with the way the program's housing requirements were met. For about half the enrollees, the dwellings occupied at the time of enrollment met the program's standards; others were repaired after enrollment. Among eventual recipients, 14 percent qualified for payments by moving to an acceptable dwelling. That group, fully two - thirds of all mobile recipients, is therefore dominated by those whose previous dwelling did not meet program standards. Influences on mobility include certification of enrollment dwellings, renting rather than owning, the household's stage in the family life cycle, and tenure. Study data and equations are presented. (Author abstract modified).