This historical working note describes the activities and attitudes of three types of market intermediaries — mortgage lenders, real estate brokers, and home repair contractors — in St. Joseph County, Indiana during the first year of HUD’s Housing Assistance Supply Experiment. HASE, an experimental program to test the market impact of providing housing allowances to low-income households with domiciles meeting minimum standards of decency, was the second component of HUD’s Experimental Housing Allowance Program.

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This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.