Federal Housing Assistance : Comparing the Characteristics and Costs of Housing Programs

In FY 1999, about 5.2 million low- & very-low-income households received about $28.7 billion in Fed. housing assist. through more than a dozen programs, yet almost 9 mill. other very-low-income household still have serious housing needs. This report: describes characteristics of the housing provided under the 6 active housing assist. programs; estimates the per-unit-cost of each of these programs; computes the portion of each program's per-unit cost paid by the Fed. gov't., tenants, & others (state, local, & private sources); & identifies public policy issues raised by this study, taking into account tradeoffs between the programs' costs & qualitative differences. Charts & tables.Czerwinski, Stanley J. is the author of 'Federal Housing Assistance : Comparing the Characteristics and Costs of Housing Programs', published 2002 under ISBN 9780756724849 and ISBN 0756724848.