"Housing issues are surprisingly absent from most discussions of welfare reform. The Home Front provides badly needed information and advice about how states can coordinate housing and welfare policies as they implement their individual versions of welfare reform."

—Greg J. Duncan, Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

"The widening debate over welfare reform has largely ignored the importance of housing—which plays a vital role in the welfare system. This valuable book restores housing to its rightful place in the debate."

—Robert Moffitt, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University

"At last, the missing perspective in the analysis of welfare reform: the nexus of housing assistance, space, and economic self-sufficiency. Sandra Newman has assembled an impressive set of analysts who illuminate the complex interactions with maps, statistics, and computer simulations. The Home Front brings the story home."