Housing Assistance

There are three primary federal housing assistance programs in the United States: the Housing Choice Voucher (or “Section 8”) Program, which provides vouchers for housing selected by recipients in the private market; project-based rental assistance, which provides subsidized rent in designated privately owned buildings; and public housing, which provides subsidized rent in publicly owned and operated housing.

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Housing and Climate Change

  • Max Besbris, Amy Chester, Ivis Garcia Zambrana, and James Elliott
  • Webinar
  • 2022
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Whitney Gent on How Homelessness is Portrayed in Movies and Why it Matters

  • Whitney Gent
  • Podcasts
  • 2022
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Prentiss Dantzler On The Concept Of Who Deserves To Have Access To Public Housing

  • Prentiss Dantzler
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  • 2022
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Reforming housing assistance to better respond to recipient needs

  • Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2021
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Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(1), June 2021
Assessing the Responsiveness of the U.S. Safety Net to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis

  • Edited by Emma Caspar, Judith Siers-Poisson, and James T. Spartz
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2021
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Making the U.S. Safety Net More Responsive to Economic Downturns

  • Robert A. Moffitt and James P. Ziliak, edited by Mitchell McFarlane
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2021
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Jacob Faber on How a New Deal Era Program Shaped America’s Racial Geography

  • Jacob Faber
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  • 2021
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Evictions and Housing Challenges in the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Lavar Edmonds, April Hartman, and Marah Curtis
  • Webinar
  • 2020
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Implementing Virtual Human Services: Lessons from Telehealth

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2020
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Considerations for Successful Virtual Case Management in Human Service Delivery

  • Joe Raymond, Lauren Supplee, and Gerrie Cotter
  • Webinar
  • 2020