Public Housing Construction and the Cities: 1937–1967

Table 3

Units in government rent reduction programs (1000s).

	1999	2007	2009
Units under rent control	884	560	529
Public housing units	1,865	1,943	1,679
Federal rent subsidy (HUD and Department of Agriculture)	2,062	3,196	3,185
Other units with income verification	2,277	982	988

Source: American Housing Survey, 1999, 2007, 2009.