Partial answer about subsidized housing

This may be far too late for your project, since your 11/15/04 query gave "this week" as a deadline. I had done some preliminary searches, and was waiting for those with possibly more experience in statistics, criminology, government docs, housing, etc. to try this one. But it appears we were all pretty stumped on this one. To make matters worse, I think an email I sent you last week got "eaten" by my U of MD email system.

There do seem to be plenty of articles and web sites concerned with the problem of
housing for people with criminal records, and most especially concern about the "One
Strike" law passed in 1996: 42 U.S.C. Section 1437d(l)(6) (2000) by filling in the Title and Section boxes, or by doing the keyword search and then using CTRL-F (edit/find in page) to search the exact location of the phrase: criminal record.

If you want to research this further, the search in databases like Masterfile Premier of Academic Search will get some full text articles. More promising, but still probably a pretty long search at best, would be Lexis Academic (available only at large academic libraries). I got 15 articles in Legal Research / Law Reviews / last 2 years, for the search . These law reviews have hundreds of cited references, and it is quite possible a chart or statistical summary could turn up in some of them. Clearly, many members of the legal community are quite concerned about evictions as well as other disadvantages that in effect are magnifying the original sentences levied for crimes.

If you are not near a large library, it still would be worth trying web searches like {"one strike" eviction* and statistics*}. Google gets 300+ hits for that one; {"one strike" eviction* and statistics* site:gov} (20 hits) and {"one strike" eviction* and statistics* site:edu} (23 hits) might be ways to start searching the web, to get more "official" figures.

Please let me know how this works - or if this is too late to help out!