How Well Do Housing Vouchers Work for Black Families Experiencing Homelessness

Evidence from the Family Options Study

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5741851
AutoresClaudia D Solari (autor de correspondencia), Douglas Walton, Jill Khadduri
Año2021
Volumen693
Número1
Páginas193-208
Fecha de publicación2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002716221996678
OpenAlexW3148425051
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas8

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 for each group. The rate at which families exit from the HCV program does not differ between White and Black families, but the factors that predict exit do differ by race. For all families, access to a voucher reduces returns to homelessness, doubling up, and moving. These results confirm that in the United States-a country with a history of racial disparities in housing-the HCV program can help alleviate the effects of severe poverty and provide housing opportunities that advantage both White and Black families

Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Poverty · Public housing · Subsidized housing · Subsidy · Voucher · White (mutation) · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies