Government Assistance Protects Low‐Income Families from Eviction

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ID11683084
AuthorsIan Lundberg (0000-0002-1909-2270, Princeton University, corresponding author), Sarah Gold (Princeton University), Sarah L Gold, Louis Donnelly, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (0000-0001-9493-8400, Royal College of Physicians), Jeanne Brooks‐gunn, Mclanahan (0000-0002-3473-5190, Princeton University), Sara S Mclanahan
Year2020
Volume40
Issue1
Pages107-127
Publication date2020-06-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Policy Analysis and Management (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0276-8739 • E-ISSN: 1520-6688
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/pam.22234
PMID33814669
OpenAlexW3036637211
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited37

A lack of affordable housing is a pressing issue for many low-income American families and can lead to eviction from their homes. Housing assistance programs to address this problem include public housing and other assistance, including vouchers, through which a government agency offsets the cost of private market housing. This paper assesses whether the receipt of either category of assistance reduces the probability that a family will be evicted from their home in the subsequent six years. Because no randomized trial has assessed these effects, we use observational data and formalize the conditions under which a causal interpretation is warranted. Families living in public housing experience less eviction conditional on pre-treatment variables. We argue that this evidence points toward a causal conclusion that assistance, particularly public housing, protects families from eviction

Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Eviction · Government (linguistics · Low income · Political science · Public economics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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