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.
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
- April 2021
Jacob Faber on How a New Deal Era Program Shaped America’s Racial Geography
- Jacob Faber
- Podcasts
- February 18 2021
Evictions and Housing Challenges in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Lavar Edmonds, April Hartman, and Marah Curtis
- Webinar
- September 2 2020
Implementing Virtual Human Services: Lessons from Telehealth
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- June 2020
Considerations for Successful Virtual Case Management in Human Service Delivery
- Joe Raymond, Lauren Supplee, and Gerrie Cotter
- Webinar
- April 28 2020
The State of the Nation’s Housing
- Chris Herbert
- Webinar
- August 21 2019
Kathleen Moore on the Housing Choice Voucher Program and Rental Market Discrimination
- Kathleen Moore
- Podcasts
- April 2018
Renter’s tax credit
- Sara Kimberlin, Laura Tach, and Christopher Wimer
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Special Issue 2017
Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction
- Matthew Desmond
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2015
Reducing inequality: Neighborhood and school interventions
- Lawrence F. Katz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015