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Analyzing Tenant Assignment Policies

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  • Edward H. Kaplan

    (College of Management, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Harbor Campus, Boston, Massachusetts 02125)

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This paper discusses two popular policies used by housing authorities to assign applicants to housing projects: first available unit and priority assignment policies. The policies are compared according to their abilities to integrate housing projects, applicant assignment probabilities, and mean waiting times. Our results show that priority policies can successfully integrate public housing projects while first available unit policies can exacerbate segregation. These results support the reported empirical performance of these policies. We briefly consider the time necessary to reach steady state for these policies; this is one point of departure for further research.

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  • Edward H. Kaplan, 1987. "Analyzing Tenant Assignment Policies," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 33(3), pages 395-408, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:33:y:1987:i:3:p:395-408
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.33.3.395
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    1. Jennifer Buurma-Olsen & Jort Sinninghe Damsté, 2023. "Quantifying Misallocation of Public Housing," CPB Discussion Paper 454, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
    2. Nick Arnosti & Peng Shi, 2020. "Design of Lotteries and Wait-Lists for Affordable Housing Allocation," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 66(6), pages 2291-2307, June.
    3. Edward H. Kaplan, 2010. "Terror Queues," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 58(4-part-1), pages 773-784, August.
    4. Itai Feigenbaum & Yash Kanoria & Irene Lo & Jay Sethuraman, 2020. "Dynamic Matching in School Choice: Efficient Seat Reassignment After Late Cancellations," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 66(11), pages 5341-5361, November.
    5. Xuanming Su & Stefanos Zenios, 2004. "Patient Choice in Kidney Allocation: The Role of the Queueing Discipline," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 6(4), pages 280-301, June.

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