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Rental Assistance Can Do More to Help Kids Live in Better Neighborhoods
Where children grow up can influence their lifelong health and success, and improvements to federal rental assistance programs could substantially better their life outcomes, our new report explains....
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One Way to Help Poor Kids Do Better in School: Help Their Families Move to...
Housing location makes a difference in low-income children’s short- and long-term success, as we detail in our new paper. There’s growing evidence that violent, stressful, high-poverty neighborhoods...
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Housing Vouchers Help Families Live in Better Neighborhoods — But They Can Do...
Policymakers over the last several decades have tried to improve low-income families’ access to low-poverty, higher-opportunity neighborhoods. With this goal in mind, they’ve relied increasingly on...
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What Housing Vouchers Mean to Minority Families, Part 1: They’re Better Able...
The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program falls short of its potential to expand children’s access to good schools in safe neighborhoods, as I’ve explained. Although a voucher makes little difference...
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What Housing Vouchers Mean to Poor Minority Families, Part 2: Help in...
I explained earlier today that housing vouchers make a big difference for minority families’ ability to live in a low-poverty neighborhood. They also help poor black and Hispanic families with...
View Article4 Ways to Help More Families Use Vouchers to Live in Low-Poverty Neighborhoods
The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program has reduced families’ housing cost burdens and homelessness and boosted their housing stability, but its performance in helping families live in low-poverty,...
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Two Programs Could Boost Opportunity for Families With Project-Based Rental...
More than 700,000 low-income families with children can afford decent housing by living in public housing or privately owned properties that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
View ArticleTwo Policy Changes Could Help Public Housing Families
Tens of thousands of children whose families can afford decent housing by living in public housing live in extremely poor neighborhoods, as I explained yesterday. But policymakers can take steps to...
View ArticleNeighborhoods Do Matter to Kids’ Success
Do neighborhoods matter to kids’ well-being and long-term success? Intuition says yes — indeed, families that can afford to often bet large sums that locating in good neighborhoods with strong schools...
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