List of Housing Resarch Repository articles that focus on Housing Assistance: vouchers, subsidies, public housing and other public assistance.

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Housing Assistance Resources

Insufficient Evidence Exists on Work Requirements Related to Housing Assistance

A paper by The Urban Institute, Work Requirements in Public Housing Authorities, examines work requirements for public housing and housing choice voucher (HCVs). The large majority of families receiving housing assistance are disabled or elderly, or they are already working. Work requirements’…

Housing Needs Have Grown Faster than Available Assistance

A report by G. Thomas Kinsley from the Urban Institute, Trends in Housing Problems and Federal Housing Assistance, finds that the population of low income renters with housing needs grew by 24% between 2005 and 2015, while the number of households receiving assistance from one of HUD’s deep subsidy…

Nonmetropolitan Voucher Holders Have Greater Access to Opportunity

A paper published in Cityscape by Rebecca Walter and Vince Wang, A Research Note: The Housing Choice Voucher Program and Access to Opportunity in Florida’s Nonmetropolitan Areas, examines the geographic distribution of Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) in Florida across large metropolitan, small…