Improving evaluation for social housing: methods and data

Infrastructure Victoria

No 201802, Policy papers from Infrastructure Victoria

Abstract: This paper highlights several important issues that if addressed could improve the methodology around cost-benefit analysis and social return on investment as used in the affordable and social housing sector. First, by focussing on the causal impacts of policies and programs rather than just outcomes. The econometrics of program evaluation provides a way to do this but hasn't been broadly applied in this sector. Second, there needs to be greater attention to cohort-specific impacts. Thirdly, collection of larger quantities of cohort specific data, where possible, linked would assist in identifying cohort specific impacts. We also review recent work done at Infrastructure Victoria applying this approach to estimating the impacts of social housing on employment, education, health, incarceration and homelessness.

Keywords: Cost-Benefit Analysis; Program Evaluation; Treatment Effects; Social Housing; Homelessness; Australia; Victoria. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D61 H42 H54 H75 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-05-01
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