This paper is one of a series of papers describing the efforts of the city of Houston to develop methodologies for expressing and evaluating growth options for the City.Specifically, the papers address the methodology for evaluation of growth options on the housing market.Separate papers describe the methodology for expressing the growth options and the use of the Housing Calculation Tool to test the impact of growth options on the Housing market. The content of this report has been structured to provide:

• An Overview to the Department of Housing and Urban Development contract supporting this effort;
• A review of the methodology being used to express growth options;
• A review of the methodology for evaluating housing market impact and
• A review of the use of the Housing market evaluation methodology in preparation of the 1980 Housing Assistance plan

This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.