The HUD-EGIS Storefront provides a one-stop shop where users can search and discover geospatial data sets, web-based maps, and HUD tools. There are approximately 1.1 million public housing units that are owned and managed by more than 3000 housing authorities. To view contact information for public housing agencies in your city and state, select your state from the list box or use the map below. While these medium to large housing authorities only represent 5% of the number of agencies, they represent approximately 60% of the public housing stock.
The opposite is true for suburbs, which are home to 38 percent of tenants compared to 14 percent of occupied public housing units. For some, public housing is synonymous with crime and miserable living conditions, as symbolized by projects such as Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago or Desire in New Orleans. While central cities are home to 46 percent of all tenants, they are home to 69 percent of occupied public housing units. Most public housing agencies are very small, with more than 2,200 agencies that have 250 public housing units or less. Public housing contains a much larger percentage of elderly households than total rental housing.
For others, it's the skyscrapers of East River apartments, where thousands of New Yorkers live safely and comfortably and commute to work in every district of New York City. The diskette shows summaries of each housing project and authority and covers 86 percent of public housing tenants. New research from the CLPHA and Econsult Solutions shows that PHAs generate and induce multiple flows of economic activity that benefit those who reside in public housing, as well as employers, local governments and industries. Sixty percent of all public housing units are located in census tracts where public housing represents less than 20 percent of the district's housing units.
This change will allow PHAs to operate in a more entrepreneurial way, to collect market rents for their units and to rent to tenants with or without housing certificates. The public housing program provides safe, decent and affordable rental housing to more than 2.2 million low and very low income families, the elderly and people with disabilities. The PHA built projects to serve two different populations (families and the elderly) and the distribution of public housing units by room size reflects these different populations.
