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Encouraging Residential Moves to Opportunity Neighborhoods: An Experiment Testing Incentives Offered to Housing Voucher Recipients

Given the potential benefits of upwardly mobile residential moves, housing practitioners should continue testing policies to facilitate voucher-based opportunity moves.

Jan 24, 2017
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Price effects of housing allowances

The Housing Assistance Supply Experiment showed that housing allowances do not cause serious price increases, contrary to many pre-experiment predictions. Empirical observation and theoretical analyses both indicate that even during the initial, max...

Jan 1, 1982
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Experimenting with Housing Allowances: Executive Summary

Summarizes and interprets the findings of the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE), conducted in two metropolitan housing markets between 1974 and 1980.

Jan 1, 1982
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Who Applies for Housing Allowances? : Early Lessons from the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment

Examines factors affecting an eligible household's decision to apply for a housing allowance during the first program year in St. Joseph County, Indiana.

Jan 1, 1981
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Testing the supply response to housing allowances : an experimental design

Proposes an experimental design for testing supply response to housing allowance demand. Problems include (1) quantifying changes in housing service flow, (2) creating a small-scale market, (3) focusing and stabilizing demand, (4) observing response...

Jan 1, 1981
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Funding housing allowances for homeowners under Sec. 235

Explores the feasibility of providing homeowners' housing allowances in the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE) through an existing program of mortgage subsidies for low-income homeowners, Sec. 235 of the National Housing Act. Compares the ...

Jan 1, 1980
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Public perceptions of housing allowances : the first two years

Public perceptions of housing allowances : the first two years

Jan 1, 1979
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Expected and Actual Effects of Housing Allowances on Housing Prices

Reviews the conjectures about allowances' market effects, summarizes evidence from the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment, and explains why the allowance program has not engendered the price inflation that was expected.

Jan 1, 1979
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How Housing Allowances Affect Housing Prices

Examines experimental evidence from fullscale housing allowance programs conducted in Brown County, Wisconsin, and St. Joseph County, Indiana.

Jan 1, 1979