Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program
PRRAC - Current Projects
The report includes new research summaries on housing mobility by Margery Austin Turner, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Stefanie DeLuca, and Xavier de Souza Briggs, and guidelines for improved housing voucher policy and program management to promote choice and mobility - by Gene Rizor, Elizabeth Julian, Jennifer O'Neill, and Paul Fischer.
A special section on "New Constituencies for Housing Mobility" looks at the relationship between housing mobility and public health (Gail Christopher); recruitment of Latino families in Chicago into a housing mobility program (Ofelia Navarro), and housing mobility as a women's rights issue (Emily Martin).
The report also includes a foreword by Professor Sheryll Cashin and a concluding chapter on "Bringing Gautreaux to Scale," by Alex Polikoff - based on the successful long running housing mobility program in Chicago established under the Gautreaux v. HUD lawsuit.
According to Philip Tegeler, PRRAC's Executive Director, "This report includes important new research and writing on a crucial housing issue. As Congress and HUD look to the future of the housing voucher program, and to the re-housing of families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, we need to remember that meaningful housing choice is the foundation of a fair and equitable national housing policy."
