Housing Assistance

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.

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Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(1), June 2021
Assessing the Responsiveness of the U.S. Safety Net to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis

  • Edited by Emma Caspar, Judith Siers-Poisson, and James T. Spartz
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2021
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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
  • 2021
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Jacob Faber on How a New Deal Era Program Shaped America’s Racial Geography

  • Jacob Faber
  • Podcasts
  • 2021
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Evictions and Housing Challenges in the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Lavar Edmonds, April Hartman, and Marah Curtis
  • Webinar
  • 2020
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Implementing Virtual Human Services: Lessons from Telehealth

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2020
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Considerations for Successful Virtual Case Management in Human Service Delivery

  • Joe Raymond, Lauren Supplee, and Gerrie Cotter
  • Webinar
  • 2020
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The State of the Nation’s Housing

  • Chris Herbert
  • Webinar
  • 2019
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Kathleen Moore on the Housing Choice Voucher Program and Rental Market Discrimination

  • Kathleen Moore
  • Podcasts
  • 2018
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Renter’s tax credit

  • Sara Kimberlin, Laura Tach, and Christopher Wimer
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2017
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Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction

  • Matthew Desmond
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2015