Section 8 Rental Voucher and Rental Certificate Utilization Study
Section 8 Rental Voucher and Rental Certificate Utilization Study

Author: Stephen D. Kennedy

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0788126555

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The Section 8 Rental Certificate and Rental Voucher programs are a critical part of the Federal Government's efforts to expand rental housing opportunities for low-income families. This study provides valuable insights into the housing search experiences and outcomes of Section 8 enrollees who, when they are not homeless or sharing a housing unit, were paying an average of two-thirds of their income in rent. Covers: success rates, need for assistance, and demographics; and determinants of enrollee success. 50 charts, tables and graphs.

Study on Section 8 Voucher Success Rates
Study on Section 8 Voucher Success Rates

Author: Meryl Finkel

Publisher:

Published: 2001-10-01

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780756727284

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The Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP) is the largest of the rental subsidy programs administered by HUD. In the HCVP, a family is offered a voucher, which it can use to rent any privately owned unit that meets program requirements. The HCVP "success rate" is the proportion of families issued a voucher who succeed in leasing a unit within the timeframe provided by the program. This volume examines success rates in metro areas. It finds that success rates vary with local market conditions. Importantly, success rates did not differ by such characteristics as the race, ethnicity, gender, or disability status of the head of household. This suggests that the voucher program works equally well for many different types of households. Illustrated.

No Place to Be a Child
No Place to Be a Child

Author: James Garbarino

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 1998-08-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780787943752

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Explore the lifelong psychological impact of war and violence on children This book should stab the conscience of the world. No one can read its gripping account of the terrifying impact on children of modern war and remain unchanged. --George McGovern, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee

Privatizing Subsidized Housing
Privatizing Subsidized Housing

Author: John C. Weicher

Publisher: American Enterprise Institute

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9780844770956

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This volume explains why there is bipartisan interest in US privatisation of public housing and how it can be accomplished.

Atlanta Paradox
Atlanta Paradox

Author: David L. Sjoquist

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Published: 2000-05-25

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1610445066

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Despite the rapid creation of jobs in the greater Atlanta region, poverty in the city itself remains surprisingly high, and Atlanta's economic boom has yet to play a significant role in narrowing the gap between the suburban rich and the city poor. This book investigates the key factors underlying this paradox. The authors show that the legacy of past residential segregation as well as the more recent phenomenon of urban sprawl both work against inner city blacks. Many remain concentrated near traditional black neighborhoods south of the city center and face prohibitive commuting distances now that jobs have migrated to outlying northern suburbs. The book also presents some promising signs. Few whites still hold overt negative stereotypes of blacks, and both whites and blacks would prefer to live in more integrated neighborhoods. The emergence of a dynamic, black middle class and the success of many black-owned businesses in the area also give the authors reason to hope that racial inequality will not remain entrenched in a city where so much else has changed. A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality

Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives
Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives

Author: Maarten van Ham

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9400723091

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Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and policy interest in this topic, but also the fact that we are still no closer to answering the question of how important neighbourhood effects actually are. There is little doubt that these effects exist, but we do not know enough about the causal mechanisms which produce them, their relative importance in shaping individual’s life chances, the circumstances or conditions under which they are most important, or the most effective policy responses. Collectively, the chapters in this book offer new perspectives on these questions, and refocus the academic debate on neighbourhood effects. The book enriches the neighbourhood effects literature with insights from a wide range of disciplines and countries.