Housing Vouchers and the Price of Rental Housing

Michael Eriksen and Amanda Ross ()

No 14-15, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: We estimate the effect of increasing the supply of housing vouchers on rents using a panel of housing units in the American Housing Survey. We do not find that an increase in vouchers affected the overall price of rental housing, but do estimate differences in effects based on an individual unit's rent before the voucher expansion. Our results are consistent with voucher recipients renting more expensive units after receiving the subsidy. We also find that the largest price increases were for units near the maximum allowable voucher rent in cities with an inelastic housing supply.

Keywords: Housing Policy; In-Kind Transfers; Vouchers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 H42 I38 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2014-06
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