The Prospects for Guiding Housing Choice Voucher Households to High-Opportunity Neighborhoods
Issue Date
2010Author
McClure, Kirk
Publisher
Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
Published Version
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol12num3/ch6.htmlMetadata
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The Housing Choice Voucher Program seeks to do more than help poor households lease
good-quality rental housing. One of the program’s goals is to help poor households break
out of the cycle of poverty by locating in neighborhoods with numerous opportunities
for gainful employment, good schools, and racial and ethnic integration. The Moving to
Opportunity (MTO) for Fair Housing program showed that, with constrained choice,
households will locate in low-poverty neighborhoods. If the MTO model were to be used
on a larger scale, would enough neighborhoods be available to offer good housing, employment,
and educational opportunities?
Examination of census block groups across the nation suggests that the supply of highopportunity
neighborhoods may not be as large as desired; there are simply too few ideal
neighborhoods and affordable units. By relaxing the objectives, however, and focusing on
poverty deconcentration and perhaps expanding the use of HUD’s procedure that grants
exception rents above the Fair Market Rent limits, a more ample supply of target neighborhoods
and rental units could become available.
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Citation
McClure, K. (2010). The Prospects for Guiding Housing Choice Voucher Households to High-Opportunity Neighborhoods. Cityscape, 12(3), 101-122.
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