Abstract
Public housing authorities require flexible methods for determining how to allocate scarce housing units. Some tenant assignment policies assign applicants using absolute priority structures (for example, emergency versus regular applicants). Other policies utilize mixing ratios to achieve objectives such as racial or social integration of housing projects. In this paper, we develop a class of policies with time-dependent priorities which incorporates the features of both approaches discussed above. We show that time-dependent priorities repair some of the problems associated with fixed priority systems. In addition, we emphasize the ease with which time-dependent priorities can be implemented.
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