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Subsidizing shelter : the relationship between welfare and housing assistance

Title
Subsidizing shelter : the relationship between welfare and housing assistance / Sandra J. Newman, Ann B. Schnare.
Author
Newman, Sandra J.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by University Press of America, ©1988.

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Additional Authors
Schnare, Ann Burnet.
Description
ix, 193 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"This study examines the relationship between income and housing assistance programs. The welfare system, through the explicit and implicit shelter allowances that welfare recipients receive as part of their public assistance benefits, spends at least $10 billion a year on housing assistance--roughly the same as the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Yet the two streams of government financing for low income housing are uncoordinated and frequently overlapping. ; Part 1 presents new evidence on both the nature and the impact of this tow-pronged approach to providing shelter assistance to the poor. It compares the level of benefits available to households receiving various combinations of aid, and documents the housing outcomes that are produced by the two systems of shelter support. ; Part 2 presents detailed statistics on estimated shelter allowances under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and General Assistance (GA) for each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia. Subsequent reports will focus on alternative policy strategies for addressing weaknesses in the current system"--Abstract.
Series Statement
Urban Institute report, 0897-7399 ; 1
Uniform Title
Urban Institute report ; 88-1.
Subject
  • Low-income housing > United States
  • Public welfare > United States
  • Housing policy > United States
  • Housing policy
  • Low-income housing
  • Public welfare
  • United States
Note
  • "May 1988."
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 193.
Contents
  • Analysis and findings -- Data book -- Appendices.
  • Executive summary -- Introduction -- Shelter allowances under the welfare system -- The impact of the two-pronged system -- Directions for future policy -- Aid to families with dependent children -- Supplemental security income -- General assistance.
ISBN
  • 0877664145
  • 9780877664147
LCCN
87034026
OCLC
  • ocm17199660
  • 17199660
  • SCSB-2137806
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library