This historical publication was produced by Abt Associates, Inc. for HUD to estimate and compare the administrative costs of operating the Housing Voucher and Certificate Programs, as well as a Freestanding Housing Voucher. The authors summarize the administrative activities and costs from 20 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) with a sample size of around 6400 recipients. The report includes three chapters: and introduction; approach to the estimation of administrative costs; administrative costs, empirical results; and two appendixes explaining the methodologies.

This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.