Quality Control for Rental Assistance Subsidy Determinations: Final Income Match Report FY 2012

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As part of the Quality Control for Rental Assistance Subsidy Determinations (HUDQC) Study, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contracted with ICF International to conduct an Income Match Study between income data from the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) income data and income data from the Quality Control (QC) study collected during field data collection. The purpose of the Income Match Study is to identify the rental housing assistance payment errors associated with intentional tenant misreporting of income. The match was conducted for all adult household members in the Fiscal year (FY) 2012 HUDQC study through their social security numbers with NDNH data files provided by HUD. This report includes the results of the income match for the PHA-administered Public Housing, Section 8 - Voucher, and Section 8 - Moderate Rehabilitation programs; and the Housing-administered Section 8, Section 202 and Section 811 Project Rental Assistance Contracts (PRAC) and Section 202/162 Project Assistance Contracts (PAC) programs.

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Quality Control for Rental Assistance Subsidy Determinations: Final Report for FY 2013

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2014

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Quality Control for Rental Assistance Subsidy Determinations (HUDQC) Study provides national estimates of the extent, severity, costs, and sources of rent errors in tenant subsidies for the largest housing programs administered by the Office of Housing and the Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH). These programs account for nearly all of HUD’s current housing assistance outlays administered by the Office of Housing and PIH, as well as the large majority of units assisted by HUD. This study was designed to measure the extent of administrator income and rent determination error by housing providers. It does not involve an audit of individual Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) or projects, nor does it monitor the implementation of housing programs. Its singular focus is to identify households for which an error was made in the calculation of the amount of the household’s rent and to provide nationally representative findings related to those errors.

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Quality Control for Rental Assistance Subsidy Determinations: Final Income Match Report FY 2013

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ICF International

As part of the Quality Control for Rental Assistance Subsidy Determinations (HUDQC) Study, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contracted with ICF International to conduct an Income Match Study between income data from the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) and income data from the Quality Control (QC) study collected during field data collection. The purpose of the Income Match Study is to identify the rental housing assistance payment errors associated with intentional tenant misreporting of income. The match was conducted for all adult household members in the Fiscal year (FY) 2013 HUDQC study through their social security numbers with NDNH data files provided by HUD. This report includes the results of the income match for the PHA-administered Public Housing, Section 8 - Voucher, and Section 8 - Moderate Rehabilitation programs; and the Housing-administered Section 8, Section 202 and Section 811 Project Rental Assistance Contracts (PRAC) and Section 202/162 Project Assistance Contracts (PAC) programs.

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The Evaluation of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program

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The past decade has been marked by a massive housing bubble and foreclosure crisis. During the first half of the decade, home prices nationally experienced unprecedented growth, increasing 85 percent in real terms between 1997 and 2005 (Shiller, 2008). The increase was notable for its sheer magnitude and because it occurred in many markets throughout the country. In a report to Congress on the causes of the foreclosure crisis, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) detailed how, in a few short years, the country saw a housing market that had seemingly limitless potential for growth change into one that brought the economy to the brink of collapse (HUD, 2010).

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Housing Choice Voucher Program Administrative Fee Study: Draft Final Report

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2015

The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the federal government’s largest low-income housing assistance program, serving approximately 2.1 million households nationwide. The HCV program is administered federally by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and locally by approximately 2,300 local, regional, and state agencies, referred to collectively as public housing agencies (PHAs). Funding for the HCV program is provided by the federal government. The funding that PHAs receive for running the HCV program includes the housing subsidy itself, plus administrative fees to cover the costs of running the program.

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Housing Choice Voucher Program Administrative Fee Study: Final Report Executive Summary

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The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the federal government’s largest low-income housing assistance program, serving approximately 2.1 million households nationwide. The HCV program is administered nationally by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and locally by approximately 2,300 local, regional, and state agencies, referred to collectively as public housing agencies (PHAs). The federal government provides funding for the HCV program. The funding that PHAs receive for running the HCV program includes the housing subsidy itself plus administrative fees to cover the costs of operating the program.

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Multidisciplinary Research Team Reports

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PD&R developed the Multidisciplinary Research Team (MDRT) vehicle to manage a team of qualified researchers. Researchers are selected for their expertise to produce an array of high quality, short-turnaround research. MDRT researchers use a variety of HUD and external data sources to answer research questions relating to HUD’s priority policies and strategic goals.

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Picture of Disability and Designated Housing

Analysis of need and availability of designated accessible housing for persons with disabilities in HUD assisted housing using HUD administrative data, American Community Survey (ACS), and Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) data.

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Accessibility of America’s Housing Stock

Analysis of accessibility of the U.S. housing stock by housing market characteristics as well as resident characteristics using core American Housing Survey (AHS) data and 2011 AHS topical module on accessibility.

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Multifamily Preservation Study: Opting In, Opting Out, a Decade Later

Study of multifamily housing preservation, rates of prepayment and opting out of HUD assistance contracts using administrative data.

Effect of Qualified Action Plan Incentives on the Location of LIHTC Properties

Analysis of whether and how features of state Qualified Allocation Plans shape siting patterns of Low Income Housing Tax Credit developments.

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Quality of America’s Assisted Housing Stock: Analysis of the 2011 and 2013 AHS

Analysis of housing quality in public and assisted housing using HUD tenant identifiers in the American Housing Survey.

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Effect of QAP Incentives on the Location of LIHTC Properties

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2015

Recent research has examined the siting patterns of Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments, but the reality is that the LIHTC program is not one uniform, national program. Rather, the program is administered by state allocating agencies, each of which has considerable discretion over how to allocate tax credits. In particular, each state issues a Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP), which outlines the selection criteria the state will use when awarding its nine percent tax credits. Some criteria are required by the federal government, such as setting aside at least 10 percent of credits for nonprofit developers and using the minimum amount of tax credit financing feasible. However, states are also allowed to adopt additional criteria that further the state’s housing policy and other goals, such as providing set-asides for developments with existing housing subsidies, including the HOPE VI Program, or awarding bonus points for locating developments in particular types of neighborhoods. As the competition for credits has increased, it seems likely that these criteria play a greater role in shaping where tax credit developments are built.

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Worst Case Housing Needs: 2015 Report to Congress

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2015

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development finds that worst case housing needs decreased during the 2011-to-2013 period but persist at high levels across demographic groups, household types, and regions. Substantial unmet needs for affordable rental housing remain even as economic conditions are improving. The unmet need for decent, safe, and affordable rental housing continues to outpace the ability of federal, state, and local governments to supply housing assistance.

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A Picture of Disability and Designated Housing

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2015

This report examines the characteristics of federally-assisted housing designated for disabled households living in the U.S. Prior research suggests that disabled persons face significant challenges when trying to secure affordable, high quality housing. The 2009 “Worst Case Housing Needs of People with Disabilities” report (Souza et al. 2011) finds that renter households with nonelderly disabled members are more likely than nondisabled households to have very low incomes, experience worst case housing needs, pay more than 50 percent of their income on rent, and live in inadequate or overcrowded housing. The inadequate housing conditions of the disabled reflects both the relatively lower incomes and assets of disabled persons (She and Livermore 2009) combined with the lack of available housing with accessibility features. Hoffman and Livermore (2012) find that disabled persons also tend to live in less desirable neighborhoods than non-disabled persons. Such neighborhoods exhibit lower median incomes, lower fair market rents, poorer access to public services, and more neighborhood problems such as crime and heavy street noise.

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Opting In, Opting Out a Decade Later

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2015

This study updates the HUD report Multifamily Properties: Opting In, Opting Out and Remaining Affordable, prepared by Econometrica and Abt Associates in 2006. The original report examined the loss of affordable housing units associated with HUD’s Section 8 project-based rental assistance and Section 236 and 221(d)(3) subsidized mortgage programs. The authors analyzed property-level data to identify the physical, financial, location, ownership and tenant characteristics associated with opt-outs from rental assistance programs, prepayment of subsidized mortgages, and enforcement actions by HUD.

The original study used cross-tabulation and multivariate regression analysis to identify characteristics associated with losses to the HUD-assisted inventory between 1998 and 2004.

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Family Options Study: Short-Term Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families

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2015

This report presents the short-term outcomes of the families enrolled in the Family Options Study, a multi-site random assignment experiment designed to study the impact of various housing and services interventions on homeless families. The report documents how families are faring approximately 20 months after random assignment to one of four interventions: community-based rapid re-housing (CBRR), project-based transitional housing (PBTH), permanent housing subsidy (SUB), and usual care (UC). Outcome measures fall within five domains: housing stability; family preservation; adult well-being; child well-being; and self-sufficiency. The collection of extensive cost data for each of the interventions tested enables the calculation of the costs that can be tied to each of the interventions, and in turn, used to understand the cost of achieving the outcomes observed. The study resulted in strong and significant findings, particularly related to the power of offering a voucher to a homeless family.

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The Bridge to Family Self-Sufficiency (BridgeFSS) Demonstration

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2015

Housing subsidies, which help low-income families pay their rent and utilities in public housing developments or in the private rental market, are a vital component of the national social safety net. For many very low-income families, they stand directly between decent, stable housing and homelessness. They are also sometimes viewed as a “work support,” with the expectation that stable housing makes it easier to find a job and remain employed. Yet, several rigorous studies have found that housing subsidies by themselves (i.e., in the absence of a work-focused intervention) may not improve average employment rates and earnings for low-income adults, and may even worsen them somewhat under some conditions. More encouragingly, a number of other studies show that housing subsidies can be used effectively as a “platform” for employment, in that certain work-focused interventions can improve labor market outcomes for individuals already receiving housing subsidies. Still, such evidence is limited, and little proof exists of any interventions producing “transformative” effects – that is, helping large proportions and a diverse mix of participating tenants achieve earnings gains that are large enough to help them exit the housing subsidy system and other government transfer programs.

This paper describes an innovative self-sufficiency program that aims to achieve this ambitious goal. Called the Bridge to Family Self-Sufficiency (Bridge FSS), the program will be tested as part of a new research demonstration project intended to determine whether low-income families receiving government housing subsidies can, with the right supports, make large economic strides, reduce their reliance on a range of government transfer benefits, and improve their overall financial security and well-being. The demonstration is a joint initiative of the Crittenton Women’s Union (CWU), a service provider based in Boston, Massachusetts, and MDRC, a New York City-based not-for-profit social policy and education research organization.

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The Evaluation of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program

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Housing Choice Voucher Program Administrative Fee Study: Final Report Executive Summary

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2015

The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the federal government’s largest low-income housing assistance program, serving approximately 2.1 million households nationwide. The HCV program is administered nationally by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and locally by approximately 2,300 local, regional, and state agencies, referred to collectively as public housing agencies (PHAs). The federal government provides funding for the HCV program. The funding that PHAs receive for running the HCV program includes the housing subsidy itself plus administrative fees to cover the costs of operating the program.

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Effect of QAP Incentives on the Location of LIHTC Properties

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Worst Case Housing Needs: 2015 Report to Congress

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A Picture of Disability and Designated Housing

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2015

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Opting In, Opting Out a Decade Later

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The original study used cross-tabulation and multivariate regression analysis to identify characteristics associated with losses to the HUD-assisted inventory between 1998 and 2004.

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