Housing Subsidies: Effects on Housing Decisions, Efficiency, and Equity

AFFH Metrics for Affordable Housing Programs: An Approach to Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Housing Subsidies in Large Jurisdictions in the Assessment of Fair Housing

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2784583 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Mindy Kao ◽

Dan Immergluck

Keyword(s):

Spatial Distribution ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

Fair Housing ◽

Housing Subsidies ◽

Housing Programs

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Housing Subsidies

Comparative Housing Policy ◽

10.1007/978-1-349-25878-9_9 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 133-150

Author(s):

John Doling

Keyword(s):

Housing Subsidies

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How do Housing Subsidies Improve Quality of Life Among Homeless Adults? A Mediation Analysis

American Journal of Community Psychology ◽

10.1002/ajcp.12229 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 61 (3-4) ◽

pp. 433-444 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maria O'Connell ◽

Kyaw Sint ◽

Robert Rosenheck

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Mediation Analysis ◽

Improve Quality ◽

Homeless Adults ◽

Housing Subsidies

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Direct Subsidies and Housing Affordability in Australian Private Rental Markets

Environment and Planning C Government and Policy ◽

10.1068/c0445 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 759-783 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gavin A Wood ◽

Matthew Forbes ◽

Kenneth Gibb

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Policy Design ◽

Housing Affordability ◽

Housing Cost ◽

Microsimulation Model ◽

Change Of Direction ◽

Housing Subsidies ◽

The Social ◽

Maintenance Systems ◽

Rental Markets

Many countries have undergone a broad retreat from the use of indirect (supply) subsidies to meet low-income housing-affordability problems, shifting to direct subsidies often linked to means-tested income-maintenance systems. Although the reasons for this change of direction are well documented, the efficacy of direct housing subsidies in terms of tackling affordability remains in question. The authors examine in detail one such system, Australia's Rent Assistance (RA) programme, making use of a microsimulation model of the Australian housing market linked to a model of the social security system. It is found that there is considerable targeting error because many low-income renters are ineligible for direct subsidies. It is also found that RA is relatively ineffective in overcoming affordability problems in high housing cost areas of Australia. Although RA does not of itself contribute much to poverty-trap problems, it may deter unemployed households from moving to areas where job vacancies exist. The authors conclude that future comparative work could usefully analyse the distributional and behavioural impacts of different forms of housing allowances. Moreover, alternative policies could be recalibrated within the microsimulation model in order to examine the first-round impacts of policy design change.

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