Housing Assistance

There are three primary federal housing assistance programs in the United States: the Housing Choice Voucher (or “Section 8”) Program, which provides vouchers for housing selected by recipients in the private market; project-based rental assistance, which provides subsidized rent in designated privately owned buildings; and public housing, which provides subsidized rent in publicly owned and operated housing.

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The State of the Nation’s Housing

  • Chris Herbert
  • Webinar
  • 2019
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Kathleen Moore on the Housing Choice Voucher Program and Rental Market Discrimination

  • Kathleen Moore
  • Podcasts
  • 2018
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Renter’s tax credit

  • Sara Kimberlin, Laura Tach, and Christopher Wimer
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2017
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Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction

  • Matthew Desmond
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2015
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Reducing inequality: Neighborhood and school interventions

  • Lawrence F. Katz
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2015
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Housing Voucher Receipt and the Quality of Schools Available to Recipient Children

  • Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan, and Barbara Wolfe
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2014
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An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States

  • Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert Moffitt, and John Karl Scholz
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2011
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The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program: A Framework and First-Year Estimates

  • Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan, and Barbara Wolfe
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2010
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Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers on Labor Market Outcomes

  • Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Tom Kaplan, and Barbara Wolfe
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2009