The Benefits of Subsidized Housing Programs
An Intertemporal Approach

Rental housing subsidy programmes have been an important part of the American welfare system since the 1930s.

Claire Holton Hammond (Author)

9780521074469, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 August 2008

152 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 0.9 cm, 0.23 kg

Rental housing subsidy programmes have been an important part of the American welfare system since the 1930s. The Benefits of Subsidized Housing Programs: An Intertemporal Approach is an empirical study of the distributive effects of the entire system of rental housing subsidies for lower-income households based on a national sample. Using the 1977 Annual Housing Survey, Professor Hammond has evaluated the benefits of all federal, state and local government rental housing subsidy programmes taken as a whole across the nation. Additionally, she has estimated the changes in consumption patterns resulting from these programmes and the relationship between household benefit and household income; household size; age, education, sex, and race of the head of the household; and the geographic location of the household.

1. Introduction
2. Evolution of the methodology
3. The model
4. Estimation procedures
5. Empirical results
6. Summary and conclusion.

Subject Areas: Social welfare & social services [JKS], Social issues & processes [JFF]