Lydia B. Taghavi

Data Shop, a department of Cityscape, presents short papers or notes on the uses of data in housing and urban research. Through this department, PD&R introduces readers to new and overlooked data sources and to improved techniques in using well-known data. The emphasis is on sources and methods that analysts can use in their own work. Researchers often run into knotty data problems involving data interpretation or manipulation that must be solved before a project can proceed, but they seldom get to focus in detail on the solutions to such problems. If you have an idea for an applied, data-centric note of no more than 3,000 words, please send a one-paragraph abstract to David.A.Vandenbroucke@hud.gov for consideration.

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“A Picture of Subsidized Households” is a series of reports showing aggregated data for various U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development programs and at different geographic levels. This article demonstrates one of the uses of these data for research, including data limitations.