This historic document is an academic paper reviewing various methods of measuring the benefits that government housing programs afford to tenants. The paper discusses several possible means of determining benefit to program participants, and several mathematical formulas for expressing these benefits numerically, for use in cost-benefit analysis. Author Edgar O. Olsen was a staff economist at the Rand Corporation, while James R. Prescott was an associate professor of economics at Iowa State University.

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