Abstract The Housing Choice Voucher Program provides assistance to approximately 2.2
million households each year, making it the largest low-income housing subsidy program …

This article reviews current federal housing assistance policies and briefly summarizes
research evidence about the efficacy of the different programs. We identify three key …

The United States federal government devotes around $40 billion each year to means-
tested housing programs, plus another $6 billion or so each year in tax expenditures on the …

Over 20 years of scholarship suggests that living in America's poorest and most dangerous
communities diminishes the life course development of children and adults. In the 1990s, the …

While poor families experience high residential instability, they also stay put for extended
periods of time before moving. When they do move, they are likely to move laterally to a …

Abstract The Housing Choice Voucher program was created, in part, to help low income
households reach a broader range of neighborhoods and schools. Rather than …

This paper examines residential mobility patterns of households living in low-income
neighborhoods, paying close attention to the neighborhood characteristics that influence …

The structure of rental markets coupled with the design of the Housing Choice Voucher
Program (HCVP), the largest federal housing subsidy for low–income families in the United …

Housing assistance policy has shifted away from project-based assistance toward
tenantbased assistance. This shift in approach reflects a common assumption that, if families …

Because homelessness assistance programs are designed to help families, it is important
for policymakers and practitioners to understand how families experiencing homelessness …