The files use June 1997 through July 1997 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 database is valuable source of information about HUD subsidies. A quarter of households are wage earners and a fifth are welfare recipients.
Most projects have a moderate income mix.
A third of households are elderly. Over half are minorities. Just under half include a single adult with children. Subsidized households have been in their subsidy program for 6 years on average, and recent arrivals averaged nearly two years on the waiting list. The average subsidized unit is in a neighborhood where one-eighth of the neighborhood are subsidized, one quarter are poor, and half are minority.