Rent Burden in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Issue Date
2000-05Author
McClure, Kirk
Publisher
Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
Published Version
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol8num2/index.htmlMetadata
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The Housing Choice Voucher Program is designed to help low-income households
consume housing at an acceptable burden on their income. The incidence of high
housing cost in the program has been reduced over the past few years. About 38 percent
of all households in the program spend more than 31 percent of their income on
housing, down from 47 percent only 2 years earlier. A high housing cost burden
appears to stem from very low income rather than from market conditions or decisions
by program administrators. Despite program rules, a small percentage of households
in the program pay a very high level of income toward housing. It appears that this
problem results from some households having very little or no income at the time
their housing consumption was recorded.
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Citation
McClure, K. (2005). Rent Burden in the Housing Choice Voucher Program. Cityscape, 8(2), 20-May.
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