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What are the impacts of living in social housing?

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  • David Prentice

    (Infrastructure Victoria)

  • Rosanna Scutella

    (RMIT)

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In this paper we take the first steps to providing parameters for use in the cost benefit analysis of investments in social housing by estimating its effects on outcomes for individual residents. This is done by applying statistical matching methods to the Journeys Home dataset to provide new estimates of the impacts of social housing on employment, education, health, incarceration and homelessness. We find placing an individual, vulnerable to becoming homeless, in social housing means they are less likely, compared with other similar individuals not in social housing, to become homeless. Hence, social housing is providing an important `safety net’ for people vulnerable to homelessness. We also find that in the short run individuals in social housing have similar outcomes in terms of employment, education, physical and mental health, and incarceration to similarly disadvantaged individuals not in social housing. These results are potentially due to strict targeting of individuals into relatively limited available spots in social housing and the averaging across cohort specific effects. The long run impacts, for some cohorts, may differ but analysing this requires longer datasets.

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  • David Prentice & Rosanna Scutella, 2018. "What are the impacts of living in social housing?," Technical papers 201801, Infrastructure Victoria.
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    Keywords

    Social Housing; Matching Methods; Homelessness; Employment; Education; Health; Incarceration;
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    JEL classification:

    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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