The Housing Assistance Supply Experiment was a project conducted by the Rand Corporation and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of its Experimental Housing Allowance Program. "The program was designed to help HUD decide whether a national program of direct financial assistance to low-income households was a feasible and desireable way to help them secure decent housing..; and if so , to help determine the best terms and conditions for such assistance and the most efficient and appropriate methods for administering a nationwide program." The Supply Experiment addressed issues of market and community response to housing allowances by operating a fullscale allowance program for ten years and monitoring operations and market responses for five years in Brown County, Wisconsin (Green Bay) and St. Joseph County, Indiana (South Bend) as well as monitoring the housing market in general.