AHS Conference: Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The inaugural Department of Housing and Urban Development American Housing Survey (AHS) Users Conference was held on March 8, 2011. This day-long conference presented early results from the newly released 2009 AHS datasets. More than a dozen analysts from academic, private, and government organizations presented their findings on a wide range of housing topics, providing insights into the value of the AHS data.

8:00 – 8:30	Registration
8:30 – 8:45	Welcome Raphael Bostic, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research
8:45 – 10:15	AHS and Special Needs The House Next Door: A Comparison of Residences by Disability Status Using New Measures in the American Housing (Denise Whalen and Gina Livermore) Download Paper Download Presentation Leveraging the AHS to Better Estimate Worst Case Housing Needs of Persons with Disabilities: An Exploration (Danilo Pelletiere and Kathryn Nelson) Download Paper Download Presentation Housing Recovery in New Orleans: A Multi-Level Approach to Vulnerability and Resilience (Lisa K. Bates and Timothy F. Green)
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 12:00	AHS and Assisted Housing Household Energy Use and Subsidized Housing (Samuel Dastrup, Simon McDonnell, and Vincent Reina) Download Paper Download Presentation Comparing AHS Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Households with Bayesian Propensity Scores (Brent D. Mast) Download Paper Download Presentation The Impact of Housing Vouchers on Renters’ Neighborhood Satisfaction: Understanding the Perceptions and Constraints among Assisted and Unassisted Renters (Lauren M. Ross) Download Paper Download Presentation
12:00 – 1:15	Working Lunch The AHS - Then, Now, and In Between John C. Weicher, Keynote Speaker Download Transcript of Speech
1:15 – 2:45	Improving the Usefulness and Scope of the AHS Housing Value, Costs, and Measures of Physical Adequacy (Paul Emrath) Download Paper Download Presentation Exploring Housing Conditions of Low-Income Minorities in the Southern United States (Sung-jin Lee, Kathleen R. Parrott, and Mira Ahn) Download Paper Download Presentation Getting Rural Right in the American Housing Survey (Lance George) Download Presentation
2:45 – 3:00	Break
Concurrent Sessions
3:00 – 4:45	AHS and Housing Wealth Housing Units with Negative Equity, 1997-2009 (George R. Carter III) Download Presentation Home Mortgage Refinance and Wealth Accumulation (Yan Chang and Frank Nothaft) Download Presentation
3:00 – 4:45	AHS, Rental Affordability and Relocation Decisiona Analyzing Rental Affordability During the Great Recession 2007 to Present (Katrin B. Anacker & Yanmei Li) Aging-in-Place and Generational Change: Data from the American Housing Survey, 1978-2009 (Miranda Dietz and Larry Rosenthal) Download Presentation Urban Pioneers: Why Do Higher Income Households Choose Lower Income Neighborhoods? (Ingrid Gould Ellen, Keren Horn, and Katherine O’Regan) Download Paper Download Presentation

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