A new report was released last week that estimates the effects of alternative reforms of the current system of low-income housing assistance on the number of people of various types who would receive assistance. The report, entitled “The Effect on Program Participation of Replacing Current Low-Income Housing Programs with an Entitlement Housing Voucher Program” explores reforms that would replace HUD’s largest low-income housing programs with alternative tenure-neutral entitlement housing voucher programs, and are designed to eliminate the system’s substantial inefficiencies, inequities, and bias against homeownership. The results indicate that even the entitlement housing voucher program that reduces public expenditure by more than 10 percent would serve 75 percent more households.
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