Section 8 Vouchers Help The Poor - But Only If Housing Is Available, Laura Sullivan, NPR, May 10, 2017, available here

Housing Voucher Reform Will Boost Efficiency and Opportunity, Will Fischer, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 17, 2016, available here

Eva Rosen, The Nation, March 15, 2016, available here

Vouchers shouldn’t merely keep people off the streets; they should help families move to neighborhoods with more opportunities.

By untethering federal housing aid from the disadvantaged neighborhoods to which it was once attached, vouchers offer millions of poor Americans the opportunity to move to a new neighborhood where streets are safe, schools have resources to teach their children, and jobs are bountiful.

Barbara Sard and Douglas Rice, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 12, 2016, available here

Housing Choice Vouchers help families afford decent, stable housing, avoid homelessness, and make ends meet. They also enable children to grow up in better neighborhoods and thereby enhance their chances of long-term health and success. Still, 280,000 children in families using vouchers lived in extremely poor neighborhoods in 2014.

A new CBPP paper shows that Housing Choice Vouchers could do much more to help children grow up in safer, low-poverty neighborhoods with good schools.

Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times, July 7, 2015, available here.

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Keren Mertens Horn, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University, available here

Stefanie DeLuca and Jessi Stafford, available here

Kami Kruckenberg and Phil Tegeler, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, July 2010, available here

Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Prepared for the Fifth National Conference on Assisted Housing Mobility, June 11-12, 2012, available here

Martha Galvez, prepared for PRRAC, May 2010, available here