Household Life Cycle And Housing Choices

By Kevin F. McCarthy

The Housing Assistance Supply Experiment is designed to test the effects on local housing markets of a full-scale program of housing allowances for low-income households.A test is important because, unlike most housing assistance programs, this one is administered largely by its beneficiaries, operating through normal market channels.

Within limits, a program participant is free to choose the type and quality of housing and the form of tenure that suit his preferences and his allowance-augmented budget.The administering agency assists with a monthly payment whose amount does not depend on these decisions, requiring of the recipient only that he occupy housing that meets minimum standards of space and habitability.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1288934157
• ISBN13: 9781288934157
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Bibliogov
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.4" x 9.7"