Skip to page content

Residential Housing

Featured

Report
What Is the Housing Cost Burden Among U.S. Veterans?
Fewer veteran households than nonveteran ones are financially burdened by housing costs. Veterans are more likely to be homeowners than nonveterans are, and have lower housing costs than nonveteran homeowners. Veterans who are younger, are female, live in high-cost housing markets, or rent are the ones most in need of housing support.
Oct 12, 2023
Essay
How New York City Can Make Housing More Affordable
With few vacancies, rents in New York City have become some of the most unaffordable in the world. People with subsidized housing vouchers often have nowhere to go to use them. Housing production is a critical part of any solution to housing affordability—in New York and elsewhere.
Nov 10, 2023

Explore Residential Housing

News Release
RAND Report Recommends Strategies for the Federal Government to Accelerate Innovation in Housing Industry
This study examines the rationale and strategies available to the federal government for promoting and accelerating innovation in housing.
Feb 25, 2003
Report
Building Better Homes: Government Strategies for Promoting Innovation in Housing
This study examines the rationale and strategies available to the federal government for promoting and accelerating innovation in housing.
Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article
Changes in Subjective Quality of Life Among Homeless Adults Who Obtain Housing: A Prospective Examination
This study suggested that becoming independently housed may improve some aspects of quality of life for homeless people, but not others.
Jan 1, 2001
Report
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
Report
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
Report
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
Report
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
Report
Equity and housing objectives in homeowner assistance
This Note reports RAND's views on two housing allowance program standards that were proposed for homeowner assistance in the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment. One was a dollar ceiling on the amount of assets that may be held by a program partici...
Dec 31, 1980
Report
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
Report
Public perceptions of housing allowances : the first two years
Public perceptions of housing allowances : the first two years
Jan 1, 1979
Report
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
Report
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
Report
The simulation of search behavior in urban housing markets
Description of a micro-level urban simulation model of Cook County, Illinois. Although similar to the NBER Urban Simulation Model in its emphasis of polycentric employment locations, heterogeneous housing bundles, neighborhood externalities, and disc...
Jan 1, 1979
Report
Economic Analysis of Urban Housing Markets: A New Approach
Develops a theoretical model of the housing market capable of incorporating a wide range of housing characteristics, and subjects the theory to an empirical test.
Jan 1, 1977
Report
Pirate Settlements, Housing Construction by Incremental Development, and Low Income Housing Policies in Bogota, Colombia
Examines the economic and social impact of the "pirate settlements" that house nearly half of Bogota's families. Unlike the squatters common throughout the poorer countries, pirate settlers acquire their land legally and then move onto the site and ...
Dec 31, 1972
Report
The Residential Movements of Low-Income Families: The Case of Bogota, Colombia
Examines the residential movements of the immigrant and native low-income families within the Bogota metropolitan area. The city center has lost its unique receiving function for immigrants. Low-income immigrants locate predominately in the illegal...
Dec 31, 1972
Report
Patterns of Negro-White Residential Segregation.
A critical review of some quantitative empirical studies of racial residential segregation, principally Negroes in Cities: Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Change, by Taeuber and Taeuber, which uses an "index of dissimilarity" as the princip...
Jan 1, 1970
Report
A Guide to Government Activities in New York City's Housing Markets
A comprehensive survey of government activities in New York City's housing markets.
Nov 1, 1968
Report
Résumé of the RAND Conference on Urban Economics
Public officials and researchers discussed race relations and poverty, urban transportation, and ways in which a coordinated set of policy tools for attacking urban problems and improving urban functions might help in shaping a better metropolis.
Oct 1, 1964
Report
Commuting and the residential decisions of Chicago and Detroit central business district workers.
A presentation of a model for explaining and predicting the travel and residential behavior of the urban population. The model is tested using data on work travel obtained from transportation studies of Chicago and Detroit. For the most part, the t...
Jan 1, 1963

Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Next

Research conducted by

RAND Social and Economic Well-Being

Researcher Spotlight

Heather L. Schwartz

Director, Pre-K to 12 Educational Systems Program

Heather Schwartz is the director of the Pre-K to 12 educational systems program, a senior policy researcher at RAND, and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She also co-directs the American School District Panel. She researches education and housing policies…
Jonah Kushner

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND

Jonah Kushner is a Ph.D. student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. His interests include workforce development and the future of work; affordable housing and homelessness; and health care delivery, health care payment, and social determinants of health.

Explore Our People »