Display Date
The United States is facing a massive shortage of affordable rental housing with worrying effects on millions of children. Rental vouchers can help.
Housing vouchers can have a significant impact on child outcomes, including reducing poverty, homelessness, housing insecurity, and child welfare involvement. This paper makes the following proposals:
- Create an additional 500,000 housing vouchers for families with children under age 6.
- Prioritize low-income, high-need families with young children.
- Phase in the vouchers over five years.
- Provide services that have a proven track record of helping families move out of poverty and that support parents, including mobility counseling and home visiting.