Below are links to publications, reports, presentations and helpful
tools related to the Housing Choice Voucher Program.
| Title
|
Description |
Moving
to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration : Interim Impacts
Evaluation (September 2003, 341 pages)
|
The
report provides insights into what benefits can be achieved
by improving the neighborhoods of poor families. |
| Costs
and Utilization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program (August
2003, 107 pages)
|
This
study is intended to provide insights into the factors that
affect Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program utilization rates
and costs in a sample of sites nationwide. |
| Voucher
Homeownership Assessment: Volume 1 - Cross-Site Analysis
(July 2003, 132 pages) Volume
2 - Case Studies (July 2003, 162 pages)
|
This
study is an assessment of the early implementation of the Voucher
Homeownership Program. The purpose of this study is to provide
insight into aspects of the program that are working well and
those that are problematic. |
Housing
Choice Voucher Location Patterns: Implications For Participant
And Neighborhood Welfare (January 2003, 125 pages)
|
The
purpose of this study is to describe where HCV assistance is
being used and whether program participants have access to a
broad range of affordable housing. |
|
Study
on Section 8 Voucher Success Rates
|
The
Study on Section 8 Voucher Success Rates is a two-volume set.
Volume
I is the Quantitative Study of Success Rates in Metropolitan
Areas. The purpose of the study is to estimate the national
success rate for voucher holders in metropolitan areas and
to explore the factors that affect chances for success (e.g.,
market tightness, voucher holder characteristics, and housing
authority policies and procedures).
Volume
II is a qualitative study of success rates in rural areas.
The purpose of this study is to explore Section 8 success
rates and the factors that affect success rates in rural areas
through in-depth qualitative research at five rural public
housing authorities.
|
Tools
and Strategies for Improving Community Relations in the Housing
Choice Voucher Program (September 2001, 81 pages)
|
This
guidebook is the end product of a study commissioned by the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to look
into some questions related to community acceptance of HCVP.
|
| Learning
from Each Other: New Ideas for Managing the Section 8 Certificate
and Voucher Programs |
Offers
housing authorities an easy way to learn from the groundbreaking
experience of Section 8 managers across the country. |
Issue
Brief: Voucher Recipients Enjoy Much Greater Choice About Where
to Live Than Residents of Public Housing and Are Less Likely
to be Concentrated in Distressed Neighborhoods
(December 2000, 8 pages) |
A
report that compares the housing choice voucher and public housing
program in terms of their ability to provide access to housing
in lower poverty neighborhoods. |
| The
Uses of Discretionary Authority in the Tenant-Based Section
8 Program (November 2000, 78 pages) |
A
study that documents both variations from PHA to PHA in tenant
selection preferences and rent policies and provides a record
of what factors PHAs considered as they set policies to guide
their Section 8 programs. |
| Case
Study of Section 8 Rental Vouchers and Rental Certificates in
Alameda County, California (October 2000, 138 pages.) |
This
report presents the results of a study of the movement of Section
8 families from the inner cities of Oakland and Berkeley in
San Francisco's East Bay to suburban Alameda County. The research
team interviewed Section 8 families about their housing search,
their reasons for moving to the suburban areas of the county,
the outcome of their moves, and conditions in their new housing
and neighborhoods compared with conditions in their previous
housing and neighborhoods. Interviews with program administrators
in Alameda County provided information on how administrative
procedures affected the ability of families to make various
types of moves. |
Case
Studies of the Conversion of Project-Based Assistance to Tenant-Based
Assistance
(August 2000, 233 pages) |
A
report that presents 12 case studies documenting conversions
from project-based to tenant-based assistance in privately-owned
developments funded under several programs sponsored by HUD. |
Section
8 Tenant-Based Housing Assistance: A Look Back After 30 Years
(March 2000, 8 pages) |
A
short history of the program which explores the reasons for
the program's growth, describes the design elements that contribute
to the program's success, and discusses some concerns that have
been raised about the program and how the Department is addressing
them. |
Case
Studies of Vouchered-Out Assisted Properties
(May 1998, 410 pages) |
Information
on the process of converting from project-based subsidies to
tenant-based assistance. |
Section
Administrative Fees - A Report to Congress
(June 1994, 21 pages) |
A
report that evaluates the fees PHAs receive for administering
certificate and voucher programs. |
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