Exhibit 6: Household-Level Data From HUD Programs
The Multifamily Tenant Characteristics System (MTCS) is an automated database of households assisted by public housing and the tenant-based Section 8 certificate and voucher programs and other programs administered by HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing. The system contains information about the demographic characteristics of each household, the level and sources of the household's income, and the address of the housing unit. The information is based on the form used by public housing authorities (PHAs) to calculate each household's rent and subsidy levels. As of August 1999, the system contained over 2.3 million household records, or about 86 percent of the occupied units.
The Tenant Rental Assistance Certification System (TRACS) is a similar system for households assisted in project-based Section 8 programs and other assisted projects administered by HUD's Office of Housing. Information in TRACS is based on forms
completed by the private owner or manager of the project and submitted to HUD. As of April 1999, TRACS contained over 1.6 million household records, or about 83 percent of the available units.
Tables providing additional information from MTCS and TRACS data on the income levels of assisted households can be found in Recent Research Results, published by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in February 1998, or at http://www.huduser.org under "Periodicals-Recent Research Results." For data from MTCS and TRACS summarized for each housing project and each census tract, see A Picture of Subsidized Households, published by PD&R for 1996, 1997, and 1998 (www.huduser.org/datasets/assthsg.html). These reports provide income and demographic information at the census tract and project levels, along with national and regional reports, based on HUD's administrative records.
Another source of information on households receiving Federal housing assistance is Characteristics of HUD-Assisted Renters and Their Units in 1993, published by PD&R in May 1997. This report is based on case-by-case matching of administrative data on the addresses of assisted housing units to AHS sample cases. It provides AHS summary tabulations for all assisted households, as well as separately identifying tenants in public housing, private-based projects, and those receiving Section 8 certificates or vouchers.
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