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.
Supporting Youth Exiting Foster Care: What Works and What Is Still Needed
- Melanie Nadon, Hui Huang, Angelique Day, and Sarah Font
- Webinar
- May 03 2023
Elizabeth Linos on Reducing Stigma To Increase Participation in Safety Net Programs
- Elizabeth Linos
- Podcasts
- March 14 2023
Deyanira Nevarez Martinez on the Latinx Paradox and Homelessness
- Deyanira Nevarez Martinez
- Podcasts
- February 28 2023
Housing and Climate Change
- Max Besbris, Amy Chester, Ivis Garcia Zambrana, and James Elliott
- Webinar
- October 12 2022
Whitney Gent on How Homelessness is Portrayed in Movies and Why it Matters
- Whitney Gent
- Podcasts
- March 21 2022
Prentiss Dantzler On The Concept Of Who Deserves To Have Access To Public Housing
- Prentiss Dantzler
- Podcasts
- February 04 2022
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
- June 2021
Reforming housing assistance to better respond to recipient needs
- Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
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