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How Well Do Housing Vouchers Work for Black Families Experiencing Homelessness?: Evidence from the Family Options Study
Author(s): Claudia D. Solari, Douglas Walton, Jill Khadduri
Publication Date: 2021
We investigate whether racial disparities exist among homeless families with priority access to the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. The families we studied moved from emergency shelter into subsidized housing and sometimes left the HCV program, and our results suggest that the HCV program works as well for Black families as it does for White families. The rates at which families used the vouchers to lease a housing unit are similarly high f...
Family Options Study: Short-Term Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families
Author(s): Daniel Gubits, Marybeth Shinn, Stephen Bell, Michelle Wood, Samuel Dastrup, Claudia D. Solari, Scott R. Brown, Steven Brown, Lauren Dunton, Winston Lin, Debi McInnis, Jason Rodriguez, Galen Savidge, Brooke E. Spellman
Organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Publication Date: 2015
The Family Options Study, launched by HUD in 2008 (and still under way), is a rigorously designed experimental study intended to provide the strongest evidence possible about the effectiveness and relative costs of four main interventions available to homeless families—permanent housing subsidy, project-based transitional housing, community-based rapid re-housing, or usual care. More than 2,200 homeless families, including more than 5,000 childre...
The 2013 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress: Part 2, Estimates of Homelessness in the United States
Author(s): Claudia D. Solari, Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Natalie Matthews, Sean Morris
Organization: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publication Date: 2015
This report is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is called The 2013 Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness: Part 1 of the 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress and was published in November 2013. The Part 1 report provides estimates of homelessness based on the Point-in-Time (PIT) count data gathered by communities throughout the country on a single night in January. The estimates are provided at the nation...