The files use May 1998 through June 1998 data on the types of households in subsidized housing programs. This is a working document and will be corrected as new information is received. We have tried to minimize errors, but the data come from so many different sources that errors undoubtedly remain. The report covers nearly five million subsidized housing units, with 11 million people. A quarter of households are wage earners.
Most projects have a moderate income mix.
A third of households are elderly. Over half are minorities. Two fifths include a single adult with children. The average subsidized unit is in a neighborhood where one eighth of the neighborhood are subsidized, one quarter are poor, and half are minority. Six sevenths of people in the United States have one or more subsidized housing units in their neighborhood.