Publications on Section 8 Vouchers & Mobility
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New Findings on the Benefits and Limitations of Assisted Housing Mobility (Commentary)The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration in 1994 in five cities: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. MTO targeted families living in some of the nation’s poorest, highest-crime communities and used housing subsidies to offer them a chance to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. Research on the families conducted in 2002 raised some important questions about the impact of the program. Findings from the follow up Three-City Study of MTO, in 2004 and 2005, answer some of the questions but also highlight the complexity of the MTO experience and the limitations of a relocation-only strategy in being able to bring about fundamental changes in the lives of very low income families.
| Publication Date: April 09, 2008 | Availability: HTML |
District of Columbia Housing Monitor: Winter 2008 (Series/District of Columbia Housing Monitor)The District of Columbia Housing Monitor provides a quarterly look at the Washington, D.C., housing market, tracking home prices, real estate listings, new construction, and affordable housing. This issue's special section provides the most extensive tracking to date of the city's subsidized affordable housing stock, reporting numbers of units by location, program type, ownership, and expiration of affordability restrictions.
| Publication Date: March 26, 2008 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
As D.C. Housing Market Slows, Affordability Concerns Remain (Press Release)Single-family home prices in the District of Columbia rose nearly 7 percent between the second quarters of 2006 and 2007 despite a decline in sales volume, according to the latest issue of District of Columbia Housing Monitor. Prices of condominiums declined slightly.
| Publication Date: March 26, 2008 | Availability: HTML |
Struggling to Stay Out of High-Poverty Neighborhoods: Lessons from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment (Research Brief)MTO offered families living in concentrated poverty the chance to move to lower poverty areas, away from the high unemployment and high crime rates areas with the challenges and risks they present. This brief looks at whether the program was successful in helping families move away from those neighborhoods and stay away from them, noting both the reasons for subsequent moves and the characteristics of the neighborhoods to which they made those moves.
| Publication Date: March 01, 2008 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Vouchers for Housing and Child Care: Common Challenges and Emerging Strategies (Discussion Papers/Low Income Working Families)Vouchers play an important role in federal efforts to help low-income families obtain both housing and child care. These programs constitute essential components of the promise of welfare reform to encourage and support work among low-income families. And both types of vouchers have the potential to enhance long-term outcomes for children. Although federal housing and child care voucher programs differ in important respects, they also face common challenges, and innovations in one area can potentially inform efforts in the other. This brief highlights promising strategies for tackling challenges to the success of child care and housing vouchers.
| Publication Date: August 01, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |