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A bold new federal experiment in giving renters cash
Would money help tenants more than housing vouchers?
The idea is relatively simple: What if, instead of traditional housing vouchers laden with convoluted red tape that landlords notoriously hate, low-income tenants could pay their rent with cash.
Would that make it easier for tenants to find housing or move into better neighborhoods?
Could that even save the government money by streamlining the aid?
This isn’t the first time the federal government has explored questions around cash rental assistance: In the early 1970s, Congress successfully piloted a program to 14,000 families across 12 cities. That research, however, was largely forgotten until some HUD employees stumbled upon old, buried reports.
HUD held their first official meetings last week, pitching no profit groups on the idea and asking for their financial backing. While the two virtual sessions were closed to the press, a HUD 40 interested agencies.
How the cash rental assistance policy might work
The proposed HUD study would look like this: Households selected from existing voucher waiting lists across a handful of diverse cities (ranging from smaller and suburban to dense and urban) would be randomly assigned to receive either the traditional housing choice voucher funded by HUD or a monthly payment for an equivalent value funded by nonprofit.
The cash would not be unrestricted; it would need to go toward paying rent.
The Study & Proof of concept
Researchers would then be able to study and compare the two groups over time (HUD says ideally for four years) to assess key housing policy questions, like whether one group had more success landing an apartment and staying in their unit.
A HUD official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said they don’t have an exact number of tenant participants in mind, but stressed they’d want to involve researchers from the very beginning so they could design a study capable of providing strong statistical analysis. An example they put forward was studying five cities, with 200 households per city.
Landlords would likely still know if renters were using non profit cash to pay their rent, as it’s common to ask prospective tenants for income verification. But this kind of study could help clarify whether landlords are more biased against renting to low-income people who rely on aid or if landlord resistance stems primarily from the hoops traditional voucher program makes landlords jump through,
Congress won’t let HUD distribute cash directly - but non profits could step in
This public-private idea is being tried already in one city: In Philadelphia, researchers are almost one year into a two-and-a-half-year cash rental assistance experiment studying 300 households selected to receive money on a prepaid debit card every month. HUD officials have been in touch with Philadelphia program leaders, but they envision designing their federal study differently, partly because state and local housing agencies have more flexibility on how they spend public funds.
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