How Do Changes in Housing Voucher Design Affect Rent and Neighborhood Quality?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Collinson, Robert; Ganong, Peter
• 署名单位: New York University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20150176
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 62-89
• 关键词: holders

摘要

US housing voucher holders pay their landlord a fraction of household income and the government pays the rest, up to a rent ceiling. We study how two types of changes to the rent ceiling affect landlords and tenants. A policy that makes vouchers more generous across a metro area benefits landlords through. increased rents, with minimal impact on neighborhood and unit quality. A second policy that indexes rent ceilings to neighborhood rents leads voucher holders to move into higher quality neighborhoods with lower crime, poverty, and unemployment.