In this volume, policy experts and urban researchers evaluate the Experimental Housing Allowance Program (EHAP) involving over 25,000 households in the United States between 1963 and 1982. `This collection of essays, which in the aggregate represent an outstanding example of applied policy evaluation, will certainly be of interest to policy makers, social scientists, and the serious layman concerned with contemporary housing issues.′ -- Perspective, January/February 1984 `...this book is a good example of the politics of housing research and the ways politics and political beliefs will override the tentative conclusions of academic research.′ -- Environment and Planning, Vol 17 no 2, 1985