Third Annual Report of the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment

ResearchPublished 1977

As of September 1976, the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment had completed three annual cycles of field surveys in Brown County, Wisconsin, and two in St. Joseph County, Indiana; and the experimental housing allowance program had operated for 27 months in the first community and 18 months in the second. A total of 6,556 households were receiving allowance payments, which averaged $75 a month. The contrasts between the two areas that led to their selection as experimental sites are reflected in allowance program development: Because property values are lower in St. Joseph County, more low-income households own homes there and more program participants are homeowners; blacks are heavily represented among enrollees there because of their lower incomes; St. Joseph County dwellings need more repairs to bring them up to program standards; St. Joseph County residents move more often because there are more vacant dwellings. In neither site has the program disturbed market or neighborhood settlement patterns, and in both the program is generally approved by officials and ordinary citizens alike.

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  • Year: 1977
  • Pages: 146
  • Document Number: R-2151-HUD

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