To assist the poor, the Federal government allocates billions of dollars annually toward public housing assistance. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has created two main types of housing assistance: project-based, where the subsidy is attached to the dwelling unit, and tenant-based, where the subsidy is given directly to the assisted household (Olsen, 2016). Within the public housing category, there are two kinds of project-based assistance, both of which generally require building new housing projects. The first is public housing, which consists of rental units that public housing authorities both own and operate. The second type is project-based Section 8 assistance, which private owners both own and run using federal subsidies
