An Assessment of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Experimental Housing Allowance Program

This historic report to Congress, written by the office of the Comptroller General of the United States, contains then-Comptroller General Elmer B. Staats’ assessment of HUD’s Experimental Housing Allowance Program. The Comptroller General found the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, a demonstration which tested the feasibility and desirability of a national program of direct housing assistance to low-income households, to be inconclusive.