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Title: Low-Income Housing Policy

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: The United States federal government devotes around $40 billion each year to means-tested housing programs, plus another $6 billion or so each year in tax expenditures on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). This is well over twice the level of federal spending on either cash welfare or the Title I compensatory program in education, four times what is spent on the children’s health insurance fund (Falk 2012), and five times what is spent on Head Start.1 What exactly do we spend this money on, why, and what does it accomplish? Those are the overarching questions at the heart of our chapter. We should note these programs are just a modest share of the total subsidies government provides to subsidize housing for American . . .

Url: https://www.nber.org/chapters/c13485.pdf

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Authors: Collinson, Robert; Gould Ellen, Ingrid; Ludwig, Jens

Editors: Robert A. Moffitt,

Pages: 59-126

Volume Title: Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Poverty and Welfare

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