Findings From PD&R's Multi-Disciplinary Research Team

Families provided with HCV rental assistance also had positive outcomes in areas other than their housing situation, including many crucial for child development, such as fewer family-child separations, less psychological distress (usually the mother), less economic stress, less domestic violence, b...

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Published in:Cityscape (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 2018-01, Vol.20 (1), p.3-10
Main Authors: Bavan, Meena, Hardiman, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affordable housing
Censuses
Employment
Ethnicity
Homeless people
Households
Housing subsidies
Imprisonment
Low income groups
Poverty
Public housing
Urban development
Vouchers
Young adults
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Summary:Families provided with HCV rental assistance also had positive outcomes in areas other than their housing situation, including many crucial for child development, such as fewer family-child separations, less psychological distress (usually the mother), less economic stress, less domestic violence, better school mobility, fewer behavior and sleep problems, and less food insecurity (Gubits et al., 2016).3 The findings from the Family Options Study built on HUD's previous large-scale evidencegathering effort in the Welfare to Work Demonstration Program. For males, the corresponding estimates are $508 (public housing) and $256 (vouchers) per year in additional earnings as a young adult. [...]contrary to some speculation or stereotypes, the study found positive effects on later earnings for housing assistance. Put another way, if federal housing assistance were eliminated altogether, the national poverty rate would increase by a full percentage point, from 15.5 to 16.5 percent (as of 2013) with an even greater increase for children in poverty-a 1.4-percent increase from 16.4 to 17.8 percent (Short, 2014).6 PD&R's Multi-Disciplinary Research Team One way that PD&R has sought to more quickly and cost-effectively add to the body of HUD evidence-based research and to create information on which to improve policies and programs is through MDRT. [...]Sandra Newman and Scott Holupka focus on the quality of assisted housing and find that the government inspection and quality control systems play a role in providing physically adequate housing to assisted housing residents.
ISSN:1936-007X
1939-1935