Housing Assistance

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

Report on Benefits of Increasing Shortterm Rental Assistance

On December 15, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) issued a report, “Options for Jobs Legislation: Providing $1 Billion to Prevent Homelessness,” that uses the example of the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP) to describe the stimulative…

Joint Center Study: Impacts and Implications of the Voucher Program

The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University has released a study of the effects of housing vouchers on families receiving TANF. The study focuses on how effective housing vouchers are in the following areas: allowing families to move away from areas of concentrated poverty,…

Housing Subsidies are Key Component to Ending Homelessness for Families

A new report from the National Alliance to End Homelessness and Enterprise Community Partners shows that access to affordable housing is the key to preventing and ending homelessness for most families and that housing subsidies are generally all that is needed to ensure housing…