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Publication Date: 2018
Families who use emergency shelters are more likely than poor, housed families to experience separations between children and their custodial parents (Cowal et al., 2002). Family composition may change over time. For example, a parent may send his or her children to live in what he or she perceives to be a safer environment with relatives or family friends rather than subjecting children to the experience of a shelter. In other cases, child welfa...
Publication Date: 2018
Families who use emergency shelters are more likely than poor, housed families to experience separations between children and their custodial parents (Cowal et al., 2002). Family composition may change over time. For example, a parent may send his or her children to live in what he or she perceives to be a safer environment with relatives or family friends rather than subjecting children to the experience of a shelter. In other cases, child welfa...
Family Options Study: Short-Term Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families
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...
Organization: U. S. Department for Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Policy Development and Research
Publication Date: 2004
This report presents interim findings as to the impact of the Welfare to Work Voucher Program on the quality of a family’s residential location, on employment and earnings, and on receipt of public assistance. The analysis, based on a six-site research sample of 8,732 families, makes use of outcome measures derived from tract-level Census data and person-level administrative data. The impact estimates in this report encompass a follow-up period t...
Publication Date: 1999
This publication profiles 25 initiatives where innovative providers are adapting existing HUD programs to help families transition from welfare to work. Designed as a resource for public housing agencies, community residents, local community development agencies, homeless service providers, assisted housing owners and other local service providers, it features promising programs already in place. The activities compiled here were identified by po...