) randomized housing-mobility experiment, which offered some public-housing families but not others the chance to move to less …

that arise in housing rental markets and explains the political popularity of affordable housing policies. We estimate the … model using data collected by the New York Housing Vacancy Survey in 2011. We find that there are significant adjustment … costs in all markets as well as serious search frictions in the market for affordable housing. Moreover, there are large …

A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the … city's periphery. Fourteen years later, relative to lottery losers, winners report improved housing farther from the city … subsidized housing and 32% eventually exited. Our results point to the importance of considering social networks when designing …

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high- poverty housing projects … housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long … high- poverty housing projects may reduce the intergenerational persistence of poverty and ultimately generate positive …

the impact of the provision of improved housing to extremely poor populations on subjective measures of well-being to test … whether poor populations exhibit hedonic adaptation when their basic housing needs are met. After sixteen months, we find that … subjective perceptions of well-being improve substantially for recipients of better housing but that after, on average, eight …

The United States government devotes about $40 billion each year to means-tested housing programs, plus another $6 … billion or so in tax expenditures on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). What exactly do we spend this money on, why …, and what does it accomplish? We focus on these questions. We begin by reviewing the history of low-income housing programs …

We nonparametrically estimate spillovers of properties financed by the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) onto … million. Affordable housing development acts like a place-based policy and can revitalize low-income communities …

Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to …

One of the goals of federal housing policy is to improve the prospects of children in poor families. But little … research has been conducted into the effects of participation in housing programs on children, perhaps because it is difficult … from several sources in order to provide a first look at the effect of public housing projects on housing quality and the …