We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program … was generous, giving free housing to beneficiaries in desirable areas. We evaluate the program by leveraging housing … lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find that public housing increases high school graduation by seven …

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 …

randomized controlled trial with housing voucher recipients in Seattle and King County. We provided services to reduce barriers …, barriers in the housing search process are a central driver of residential segregation by income. Interviews with families … informational interventions - have much smaller impacts. We conclude that redesigning affordable housing policies to provide …

lottery. Families received one of two types of housing vouchers: the first (Experimental) required families to move to very …

We combine national administrative data on earnings and participation in subsidized housing to study how the demolition … of 160 public housing projects--funded by the HOPE VI program--affected the adult labor market outcomes for 18 …

Researchers and policy-makers have explored the possibility of restricting the use of housing vouchers to neighborhoods … estimate preferences over neighborhoods of likely recipients of housing vouchers in Los Angeles. We combine simulations of the … children. Simulations suggest a policy that restricts housing vouchers to the top 20% of neighborhoods maximizes expected …

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs "investable" tax … credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing …

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

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents …