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Designing a housing allowance program /

11 Mar 2016

In the parlance of mathematics: Rent and This paper describes a series of income are the independent variables and the amount of the housing allowance is the dependent variable. [...] In Option 3 a In essence, the purpose of Option 2 is to use the introduction of a housing allowance is paid to all households whose actual rent, up to a supplementary housing allowance as an opportunity to reform social maximum, is higher than a percentage of their income, with the amount assistance so as to increase recipient autonomy. [...] The amount of allowance is calculated as a percentage of the ‘gap’ between the assumed While both Options 1 and 4 include minimum rent levels, they are the rent minus the amount the household is expected to contribute for rent opposite of one another. [...] In Option 4, options affects the total amount of housing allowance many of the by contrast, both social assistance recipients and the working poor would lowest-income households might receive even if the maximum rent also be eligible for the flat-rate housing allowance outside of the social and all other variables are otherwise the same. [...] In the 2008 Working Group, the minimum was to be would be at the level of the social assistance shelter benefit, the new equal to the social assistance shelter benefit and the maximum equal to Option 1 housing allowance would become a supplement to the income 75 percent of median market rent in large and small cities in Ontario.
housing policy low-income housing provincial aid to housing rent subsidies

Authors

Mendelson, Michael

ISBN
9781553826637
Pages
32
Published in
Ottawa [Ontario

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