Stable and envy-free lottery allocations for affordable housing

Affordable housing lotteries often enforce a rule preventing duplicate lottery entries that makes the model in Hylland and Zeckhauser (1979) (HZ) inapplicable. We revisit HZ and propose a new individually stable (IS) allocation that can be achieved by a Tickets algorithm and accommodate the rule. A...

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Main Authors: Zhan Wang, Jinpeng Ma, Hongwei Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for the Promotion of Mechanism and Institution Design 2023-12-01
Series:Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design
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Online Access: http://www.mechanism-design.org/arch/v008-1/p_01.pdf