This study will utilize existing datasets to advance the knowledge about the effects of federal housing policy toward the spatial deconcentration of poverty on real estate markets, as embodied in the Section 8 housing voucher program, and contribute to federal and city efforts to implement a positive cost-effective program that improves the housing outcomes of low-income households.(More)

This study answers the following questions: 1) Will shifting the current Tenant-Based Rental Assistance program from federal to state operation improve the delivery of housing vouchers to eligible recipients?; 2) What are the implications of the pending Housing Assistance for Needy Families Act for current housing voucher recipients, state welfare and housing agencies, and HUD?; 3) What type of employee training and skills development will have to be acquired before states will have the capacity to implement the Section 8 housing vouchers program?; and 4) What lessons can be learned from the outcomes of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Act of 1996?(More)

Programs that aim to promote self-sufficiency require practitioners to develop referral networks to connect clients with available job training and supportive services. However, when existing services are scarce, difficult to access, or not fully aligned with clients' specific needs, implementation success requires more than simply referring clients to other providers.(More)

This paper will look at the economic determinants of neighborhood choice with an emphasis on the role of school quality and other local amenities. Since neighborhood choice can be thought of as a discrete choice problem, I propose to use variations of the discrete choice multinominal logit model to estimate the probability of choosing a particular neighborhood. The logit models will be estimated using panel data from the 1987-96 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth that has been geocoded allowing researchers to incorporate space in economic models.(More)

Housing policy in the United States currently sits at a metaphorical crossroads, with many housing scholars and practitioners questioning our current course and future direction. The realities of the current housing market conditions request that housing scholars not only take stock of our current situation, but also to question how research and policy come together to influence the experience of housing at the level of the consumer. For policy researchers and scholars concerned with low-income housing, this crossroad is particularly salient. While the types of contemporary "market corrections" realized within many housing markets ironically suggest the creation of a "new" stock of more affordable housing, at the same time, demand for scarce affordable housing resources continues to grow in many locations. Such circumstances call affordable housing scholars to go back to the basics in order to question many of the assumptions underlying policies, but more importantly, to assess the implications of these assumptions upon the experiences and outcomes experienced "on the ground" by program participants.(More)

A key indicator of racial inequality in the United States is the different rates in homeownership between Whites and Blacks. Recently, a wide variety of public policies have been developed to promote homeownership among African Americans. One policy to encourage savings and accumulate assets in general, and homeownership in particular, is the Individual Development Accounts (IDA). The purpose of this study is to examine the experience and outcomes of African-American people involved in the IDA programs.(More)