Assisted Housing Tenant Assisted Housing Tenant DataData

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban U.S. Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentDevelopment

Office of Policy Development and ResearchOffice of Policy Development and Research

Data from HUD’s Administrative Data from HUD’s Administrative SystemsSystems

Data on participants of three HUD rental subsidy programs

• Public Housing

• Housing Choice Vouchers

• Section 8 and other project-based assistance

Data from HUD’s Administrative Data from HUD’s Administrative SystemsSystems

Data collection is done through MTCS (PIC) & TRACS

• Types of data collected

• Administrative uses of the data

• Policy and budget uses of the data

• Research uses of the data

Description of data, and data quality issues

• Means of data collection; frequency

• Use of front-end edits

• Large number of vendors and providers of data

• Data completeness

Data from HUD’s Administrative Data from HUD’s Administrative SystemsSystems

 “Picture of Subsidized Households in 1998”

• Family summary data by program, PHA, project, tract

• Provides socio-economic and housing data

• One of our most widely used publications

• Provides project geocodes to allow for other

summarization

• Data can be viewed or downloaded:

www.huduser.org/datasets/assthsg/statedata98/

index.html

PublicationsPublications

“Housing Choice Voucher Location Patterns: Implications for Participant and Neighborhood Welfare,” January 2003

• Detailed data on participants and neighborhoods

• Summary data on 50 most populous metro areas (MSAs), and for center cities and suburbs of each area

• Provides both household- and tract-level analysis

• Also provides data for States and some PHAs

• Users can download most statistical tables as Excel files

www.huduser.org/publications/hsgfin/location_paper.html

PublicationsPublications

Assisted Housing Research Cadre

• HUD’s Contractor provides access to data

• Researcher file provided to cadre members, who

work as subcontractors

• Special tasks – eight are underway

• Supports policy-relevant research – good model for

future

Researcher Access to HUD DataResearcher Access to HUD Data

“Democratizing data” – 1997 Federal Register Notice

• Researcher access to microdata files

• No unique identifiers – name, SSN, dob or address

• Research on housing and community development issues

• May not identify or have interest in individuals

• Data available for 1995-2003

• Some capability for longitudinal analysis

• Not publicized widely, but available to researchers

• Files are part of a Privacy Act system of records

• Templates available for organization and researchers

Researcher Access to HUD DataResearcher Access to HUD Data

Content of TRACS data; see especially the Monthly Activity Transmission (MAT) and TRACS information packet:

 www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/trx/trxdocs.cfm  Content of MTCS (PIC) data; see especially the 50058 form

and instruction booklets, and the technical reference guide:

 www.hud.gov/offices/pih/systems/pic/50058/index.cfm

Useful URLsUseful URLs

Robert GrayRobert_W._Gray@HUD.gov

202-708-4504, x5732

Barbara HaleyBarbara_A._Haley@HUD.gov

202-708-5537, x5708

ContactContact