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Social Rasearch and Experimentation. may 15, 197E. 8 pp.
Testimony before the Hcuse Ccomittee on Science and Technolcr :
Domestic and Intarnaticnal Scientific Planning, Analysis and
Cooperation Subcommittee; by Henry Eschitege, Director, Community
and Economic Development Div.
Contact: Community and Economic Development Div.
Organization Concarned: Departr_ nt of Housing and Urban
Development.
Congressional Relevance: Hous6 Committee on Science and
Technology: Domestic and International Scientific Planning,
Analysis and Ccoperation Subcommittee.
A 1978 report, An Assessment of the Lepa-:tment of
Housing and Urza.a Deyelopment's Experimental Housing Allowance
Program (EHAP), recognized that caretfilly designed and operated
social experiments offqr useful techniques for gaining
infoi:uatiun necessary to make inforwmed decisions on major public
Folicy issues. The report cautioned, however, that social
reseaLch and development is in its early st .-es and, by its very
nature, has certain limitations wher projecting beyond the
experiment. The EHAP Program represented a major effort on the
part of th- Department of HoLsing and Urban Development (HUD) to
experiment %ith the concept of direct cash assistance to
determine the feasibil ty and desirability of a national housing
allowance program. Although EHAP will provile a wide r,,nge of
information on housing markets and the behavior cf low-income
persons that has not been available before, it will not provide
answers to the principal research questicns initially p)sed. The
experimental sites lacked the characteristics typical oi7 major
urban areas where a housing allowance program would be mast
needed. BUD did not clearly apprise the Congress from ths outsp.
of the experimental limitations and raised its expectations too
high. The question of confidentiality in social research became
a real issue; until other review methods are developed, the
extent to which data provided as part of a social experiment are
to be considered confidential must be deteimined on a
case-by-case basis. (ES)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadxzu0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)