21. Welfare Reform Impacts On The Public Housing Program: A Preliminary Forecast welfare reform Impacts on the Public housing Program focuses on eight PHAs that vary with respect to their State s welfare reform rules, rent and tenant http://www.huduser.org/publications/pubasst/welrefor.html

My Cart HUD Home HUD USER Home Search Advanced Search What's New Publications Periodicals ... Contact HUD USER Welfare Reform Impacts on the Public Housing Program: A Preliminary Forecast (March 1998, 113 p.) Send this to a friend FULL TEXT: HTML (*.html) President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in August 1996, ending "welfare as we know it." The new law replaces Aid to Families with Dependent Children with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Under TANF, eligible families receive relatively short-term income assistance if the adults in the family participate in work-related activities. Welfare Reform Impacts on the Public Housing Program: A Preliminary Forecast examines the implications of this new law for public housing authorities (PHAs), whose residents traditionally contribute a portion of their incomes for rent. Prepared by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research, the study finds that the effects of welfare reform on tenant incomes and PHA rent revenues are expected to vary considerably. Effects will depend on the number of PHA households that include mandated residents (adults required under TANF to seek employment), their potential for finding a job, their contributions to rent revenues, and mitigating actions taken by PHAs. Substantial numbers of PHA residents have been (or soon will be) required to move from welfare to work losing all TANF assistance as they reach their time limits or find a job. Because public housing rents are tied to tenant income, a portion of PHA rent receipts will become uncertain. The resulting effect on Federal budget outlays, in the form of operating subsidies to PHAs, is also uncertain.

22. Federal Housing Assistance And Welfare Reform In 1995, federal outlays for housing assistance to the poor ($19 billion) exceeded those for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) by $7 billion. http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/anf19.html

Federal Housing Assistance and Welfare Reform Uncharted Territory Author(s): G. Thomas Kingsley Other Availability: PDF Order Online Printer-Friendly Version Published: December 01, 1997 Citation URL: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=308023 Number A-19 in Series, "New Federalism: Issues and Options for States" The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders. Federal housing assistance was seldom mentioned in the mid-1990s’ debate over devolution of America’s social safety net. Yet in FY 1995, federal outlays for housing assistance to the poor ($19 billion) exceeded those for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) by $7 billion. A sizable share (about one-fifth) of households that receive AFDC also benefit from federal housing subsidies administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Moreover, those receiving HUD assistance account for a much larger share of long-term welfare recipients—those likely to have the most difficulty finding and retaining employment—than welfare families that don’t receive federal housing assistance. Among AFDC beneficiaries in 1994, for example, the median cumulative period of welfare recipiency for those who also received HUD assistance was 57 months; for those not receiving HUD assistance, the comparable period was 37 months. Whether or not welfare recipients also receive housing assistance will greatly influence the immediate circumstances and, possibly, the longer-term opportunities of those directly affected by welfare reforms and cutbacks in related social programs. Welfare reform may also have a marked impact on the financial condition of HUD’s housing programs. Tremendous variations in HUD assistance across states and localities (explained below), together with the new discretion states have been given to run their own welfare programs, mean that housing assistance and welfare interactions at the local level will significantly affect state responses to devolution.

23. Housing Policy And Welfare Reform Government housing programs should be restructured according to the current principles of welfare reform. First, ablebodied recipients should be required http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/Test050102.cfm

site map help contact us The Heritage Foundation ... Welfare Housing Policy and Welfare Reform Policy Archive: view by date Policy Archive: view by issue ... Return Home Housing Policy and Welfare Reform by Robert Rector Testimony Testimony before The Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Introduction Before I begin, let me first thank the committee for the opportunity to speak before you today. While I serve as Senior Research Fellow on Welfare and Family Issues at The Heritage Foundation, I must stress that the views I express are entirely my own, and should not be construed as representing the position of The Heritage Foundation. The traditional War on Poverty was launched in the mid-1960's. War on Poverty programs (cash, food, and housing) focused on providing material support and largely ignored the behavioral causes behind poverty. The welfare reform of 1996 recognized that this old style welfare system had failed. The reform changed the nature of cash aid: in the future welfare would continue to provide material support but it would also seek to transform behavior in a positive way. To understand the lessons of welfare reform for assisted housing programs, six points are critical:

24. The Heritage Foundation: Welfare Even with the historic reform of welfare in 1996, the welfare system is expensive welfare reform, marriage, poverty, abstinence, cost, hunger, housing, http://www.heritage.org/research/welfare/welfarebriefingroom.cfm

site map help contact us The Heritage Foundation ... Research The Heritage Foundation: Welfare Policy Archive: view by date Policy Archive: view by issue ... Events The 1996 welfare reform began necessary changes in the disastrous old welfare system, yet much more remains to be done. When Congress reauthorizes Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) this year, the debate will cover all facets of the issue: Welfare reform, marriage, poverty, abstinence, cost, hunger, housing, child care, and more. See Heritage's related research by subtopic. Welfare Watch Archive Welfare Watch is a regular e-mail update designed to inform the Senate's reauthorization of welfare reform Sub-Issues Abstinence Poverty and Inequality Child Care Marriage, Welfare and Poverty ... The Positive Effects of Marriage: A Book of Charts by Patrick Fagan, Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and America Peterson For children whose parents remain married, the benefits are real. Too many programs continue to undermine marriage among the poor and must be reevaluated. New Census Bureau Report Underscores the Need for More Pro-Growth Policies by Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Rea S. Hederman, Jr.

25. Housing And Welfare Reform:  Some Background Information - Rev. 11/5/98 housing and welfare reform Some Background Information Although the welfare and housing assistance systems are designed and administered separately http://www.cbpp.org/hous212.htm

Revised November 5, 1998 Housing and Welfare Reform: Some Background Information by Barbara Sard and Jennifer Daskal Although the welfare and housing assistance systems are designed and administered separately from each other, their beneficiaries overlap to a substantial degree. This intersection presents opportunities and challenges for welfare recipients, housing and welfare advocates, and administrators of both welfare and housing programs. It also presents potential risks for the housing programs, especially in the wake of welfare reform. Housing Assistance for Low-Income Families The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) operates three major federally-funded programs that provide housing assistance to low-income families: public housing, Section 8 certificates and vouchers, and Section 8 project-based programs. Some states also run small programs providing housing assistance. Since housing assistance is not an entitlement, there are many more eligible families than there are families provided assistance, and waiting lists for housing assistance are very long in many areas. Census data indicate that there are 5.3 million unassisted families with "worst case housing needs"; these are families that live in substandard housing or pay over half their income in rent. Housing assistance can become available to families due to turnover or through federal funding of additional subsidies. From 1995 until the recently enacted HUD appropriations act for fiscal year 1999, there was no net increase in the supply of federally subsidized housing for low income families. In fact, as some public housing units were demolished and as some Section 8 contracts expired and were not renewed, the number of households receiving federal housing subsidies declined in the last few years for the first time in the history of these programs. For fiscal year 1999, Congress has appropriated funds for 50,000 additional housing vouchers targeted on families making the transition from welfare to work.

26. The Value Of Housing Subsidies To Welfare Reform Efforts -- 2/24/00 The Value of housing Subsidies to welfare reform Efforts It is not entirely clear why welfare reform efforts appear to produce greater impacts among http://www.cbpp.org/2-24-00hous.htm

February 24, 2000 The Value of Housing Subsidies to Welfare Reform Efforts by Barbara Sard and Jeff Lubell This is the first chapter of a report on "The Increasing Use of TANF and State Matching Funds to Provide Housing Assistance to Families Moving From Welfare to Work." The full report is available on the Internet at http://www.cbpp.org/2-17-00hous.pdf For printed copies, call the Center at 202-408-1080. Recent research results suggest that housing subsidies can be helpful in advancing welfare reform objectives. A study by the highly regarded Manpower Development Research Corporation (MDRC) of welfare reform in Minnesota found most of the gains in employment and earnings attributable to the state's welfare reform initiative were concentrated among residents of public or subsidized housing. In other words, welfare reform was found to have a larger effect on employment and earnings among families receiving housing subsidies than among other families in the study. Preliminary findings from studies in Atlanta, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio, indicate the same may be true of different initiatives undertaken in those cities. A study of the work activity of welfare recipients in four counties in California found a strong positive correlation between receipt of Section 8 housing assistance and the number of hours worked per month, after controlling for other characteristics. Additional research is needed to confirm the applicability of these preliminary findings to other welfare reform programs. These findings suggest, however, that housing subsidies may be useful in helping families make the transition from welfare to work.

27. WN&V Lack of stable housing is a big one. Any serious welfare reform effort should increase affordable housing stock and subsidies. As one way of doing this, http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/118/WN&V.html

Jul/Aug 2001 Washington News and Views Reform Welfare Reform Families still poor and experiencing homelessness By Sue Watlov Phillips, acting executive director, Natrional Coalition for the Homeless and Hillary Whyte, TA cooordinator, National Coaliton fo the Homeless Back to Table of Contents I n 2002, TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) will be up for reauthorization. In preparation for the debate surrounding it, The National Coalition for the Homeless and the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, on behalf of the National Welfare Monitoring and Advocacy Partnership (NWMAP), have released Welfare to What? Part II: Laying the Groundwork for the 2002 Congressional TANF Reauthorization Debate Welfare to What? The report is based on 4,988 surveys completed by low-income families seeking help from 188 service providers between January and December 1999. The NWMAP survey is not a random sample, and does not claim to directly correlate family hardship with welfare reform, but it does give important snapshots of the conditions faced by poor families in the era of welfare reform. As many Americans prosper and politicians revel in dramatic declines in the welfare rolls, families are struggling to provide both housing and food for their children. Almost 50 percent of survey respondents had experienced homelessness in some form, and 34 percent had gone to a shelter for help. Forty-seven percent of those surveyed reported that they were not receiving food stamps to which they were entitled, and 28 percent said they could not buy food at certain times during the previous six months. Nearly half of the surveyed families who received welfare indicated that they had their benefits reduced and/or stopped. Sixty-five percent of respondents were unemployed. For those who were employed, the average wage was $7.20 an hour, and over two-thirds did not receive health insurance from their employers.

28. Welfare Reform And Housing welfare reform Beyond Brief 16, by Rebecca Swartz and Brian Miller (March 2002) http://www.brook.edu/es/research/projects/wrb/publications/pb/pb16.htm

Brookings Economic Studies Welfare Reform and Beyond News Releases ... Site Map Welfare Reform and Housing by Rebecca Swartz and Brian Miller March 2002 Full document in PDF mailhide2('feedback', 'brookings', 'edu', 'Welfare Reform and Housing') ABSTRACT Housing is more than bricks and mortar. It is a key factor in determining a family's access to economic and educational opportunities, exposure to violence and environmental hazards, and ability to accumulate financial assets. Too few low-income families reap the positive benefits of living in stable and reasonably priced housing, and many frequently move in and out of undesirable or unsustainable housing. This lack of stable housing can create difficulties for parents trying to retain employment and can increase the likelihood that their children will have problems in school. In this policy brief, we provide an overview of the current state of housing for low-income families, describe some current government interventions, and analyze a range of proposed housing reforms that Congress should consider as it debates reauthorization of the 1996 welfare reform law. Housing Needs of Low-Income Families Roughly 20 percent of all middle- to low-income households in the U.S., over 13 million in all, live in substandard housing or pay more than half of their income in housing costs, well above the affordability standard of 30 percent of gross income established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Whereas housing quality was the major housing problem in the decades leading up to the 1970s, today the leading problem for low-income families is affordability. While it is no surprise that poor families are disproportionately unable to afford housing, it may be surprising that more than 85 percent of renter households with incomes below 30 percent of area median income (AMI) spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing, with well over half of them spending more than 50 percent of their income on housing (figure 1, bar graph on far right).

29. Is Housing Mobility The Key To Welfare Reform? Is housing Mobility the Key to welfare reform. Reframing the Challenges and Opportunities for Affordable housing http://www.brook.edu/metro/rosenbaumexsum.htm

Brookings Metropolitan Policy News Releases Calendar of Events ... Site Map Is Housing Mobility the Key to Welfare Reform? by James E. Rosenbaum and Stefanie DeLuca September 2000 FullReport in PDF (155.2KB) mailhide2('feedback', 'brookings', 'edu', 'Is Housing Mobility the Key to Welfare Reform?') Related Research Housing Research Abstract Since 1976, the Gautreaux program in Chicago has helped thousands of inner-city low-income black families move to new neighborhoods within the city itself and in the outlying suburbs. This survey examines the extent to which neighborhood characteristics affect household reliance on welfare (AFDC) receipt. Rosenbaum and De Luca find that families who moved into communities with more-educated neighbors were much more likely to leave public assistance after the move than their counterparts in areas with less-educated residents. SEARCH BROOKINGS Advanced Search Help MOST RECENT RELATED CONTENT Harsh Housing Realities Require Strong Leadership In the Wake of Katrina: Provide Mobility, Not Just Mobile Homes Planner Defines a New Vision of New Orleans The Geography of Opportunity Events Governing Gotham: Lessons from Rudolph Giuliani's Successes and Failures Jobs-Plus: How to Promote Work in Public Housing American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and A Nation's Drive to End Welfare

30. Government Innovators Network: Housing, Welfare Reform, And Self-Sufficiency: An Recently passed welfare reform legislation may have adverse impacts on the incomes of public and assisted housing residents and hence on the rental income http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=3153

31. Government Innovators Network: After Welfare Reform: A Snapshot Of Low Income Fa After welfare reform A Snapshot of Low Income Families in Boston Although the availability of a housing subsidy helps to reduce the burden, http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=4909

32. FMF | Housing Assistance Can Help Make Welfare-to-Work A Reality The Intersection of housing Assistance and welfare reform There are several ways in which subsidized housing can support the welfareto-work transition http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hff/v1i1-housing_assistance.shtml

Site Map Legal/Trademark HOME GRANTS ... Volume 1 Issue 1 Spring 1999 — Volume 1 Issue 1 Housing Assistance Can Help Make Welfare-to-Work a Reality By Carol A. Bell and Eliza F. Gleason Implementation of welfare reform has triggered much public discussion about how to realistically move people from welfare dependency to self-sufficiency. While child care, transportation, and health insurance have traditionally been cited as necessary supports for the welfare-to-work transition, affordable housing has not been a large part of this conversation. Housing is, however, a critical element of the welfare-to-work challenge. Many welfare recipients also receive housing assistance. For those receiving both, getting off welfare to go to work could mean losing some of their housing assistance through a lower subsidy or a rent increase, thus causing a disincentive to work. For those trying to move from welfare to work who are not already receiving housing assistance, such assistance may support their efforts and enhance their incentive to become self-sufficient. Housing and welfare benefits vary from state to state under broad federal guidelines, but this example presents a typical scenario: A single mother with two children in Michigan who moves from welfare-dependency to working full-time for $6 an hour would take home $924 a month, but would lose welfare and food stamp benefits and end up with a net monthly income of $363 more than when she was on welfare. By claiming the Earned-Income Tax Credit (EITC), the family gains an additional $313 per month, for a total monthly increase of $676. Job-related expenses such as child care, transportation, and clothing could wipe out all or a large portion of the increased income.

33. Housing Assistance And The Effects Of Welfare Reform: Evidence From Connecticut housing Assistance and the Effects of welfare reform Are the welfare reform initiatives any more effective or less effective for welfare recipients who http://www.mdrc.org/publications/379/overview.html

Elementary School Reforms Secondary School Reforms District Reforms After-School Programs ... Full Report Housing Assistance and the Effects of Welfare Reform Evidence from Connecticut and Minnesota Prepared by Nandita Verma and James A. Riccio with Gilda L. Azurdia Posted with permission of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD USER P.O. Box 23268, Washington, DC 20026-3268 Toll Free: 1-800-245-2691 TDD: 1-800-927-7589 Local: 1-202-708-3178 Fax: 1-202-708-9981 This study, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), adds to a small but growing body of literature on this topic. It focuses on the following key questions: Are the welfare recipients who receive housing assistance a harder-to employ group than the recipients who do not receive housing subsidies? Are the welfare reform initiatives any more effective or less effective for welfare recipients who receive housing assistance than for those who do not?

34. MDRC - Publications: Welfare Reform In Urban Communities housing Assistance and the Effects of welfare reform Evidence from Connecticut and Minnesota. US Department of housing and Urban Development. 2004. http://www.mdrc.org/subarea_publications_25.html

Elementary School Reforms Secondary School Reforms District Reforms After-School Programs ... Working Papers on Research Methodology Welfare Reform in Urban Communities Welfare Reform in Los Angeles Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods 2005. Denise F. Polit, Laura Nelson, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, and David C. Seith with Sarah Rich. Welfare caseloads fell, employment increased, and neighborhood conditions improved in Los Angeles during a period of economic growth and welfare reform. However, most welfare recipients still remained poor, the concentration of poverty increased, and those who worked were usually in low-wage jobs without benefits. A Profile of Families Cycling on and off Welfare 2004. Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Stephen Freedman. In MDRC’s study of over 160,000 single-parent welfare recipients, families who repeatedly return to welfare assistance—“cyclers”—were less disadvantaged in the labor market than long-term welfare recipients. At the same time, they were less able than short-term recipients to attain stable employment and to work without welfare.

35. Welfare, Children, & Families housing Assistance, housing Costs, and welfare reform July 2002 — Policy Brief 024 PDF Format . A Closer Look at Changes in Children s Living http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare/

Robert Moffitt PDF Format Andrew Cherlin PDF Format PDF Format Sheldon Danziger Hui-chen Wang PDF Format Robert A. Moffitt Katie Winder April 2004 Revised August 2004 PDF Format and the MDRC Next Generation Studies on the Robert A. Moffitt P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Andrew Cherlin June 2004 PDF Format Robert A. Moffitt et al. Working Paper 03-03 November 2003 PDF Format Robert A. Moffitt Working Paper 03-02 PDF Format Science 299 (7 March 2003): 1548-1552. Not By Jobs Alone The Correlates and Consequences of Welfare Exit and Entry Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder Working Paper 03-01 PDF Format View the papers from the August 17, 2002 American Sociological Association session on the three-city ethnography. Housing Assistance, Housing Costs, and Welfare Reform PDF Format A Closer Look at Changes in Children's Living Arrangements in Low-Income Families PDF Format The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare PDF Format The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare Working Paper 02-02 PDF Format Welfare Reform: What About the Children?

36. Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases Johns Hopkins University welfare reform Sources. housing and welfare reform Sandra J. Newman, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home02/feb02/welfare.html

Headlines @Hopkins News by Topic News by School Events Open to the Public Blue Jay Sports Search the Site Contacting News Staff Receive News Via Email Resources for Journalists Virtually Live@Hopkins Hopkins in the News Faculty Experts Faculty and Administrator Photos Faculty with Homepages JHUniverse Homepage Media Advisory Office of News and Information Johns Hopkins University 3003 N. Charles Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3843 February 1, 2002 To Reporters, Editors, Producers From amycowles@jhu.edu glenn@jhu.edu Re Welfare Reform Sources As Congress prepares to debate re-authorization of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), consider the following Johns Hopkins researchers as sources for putting the welfare reform experiment into proper perspective. The list of experts covers areas such as the relationship between welfare benefits and out-of-wedlock childbearing, housing issues, the effects of welfare reform on families and efforts to help the hardest to employ get jobs and build skills. Effects of welfare reform on families Andrew Cherlin

37. Online NewsHour Forum: Welfare Reform, October 22, 1996 The President signed the welfare reform bill reluctantly. But ready or not, Will HUD (housing and Urban Development) go the way of welfare? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/welfare_reform_10-22.html

WELFARE REFORM October 22, 1996 Forum Read Senator Santorum's answers. NewsHour Coverage of Welfare Reform July 24, 1996: Senator Santorum discusses his views on welfare and the bill he co-sponsored. Fall, 1996: A NewsHour Backgrounder on welfare reform gives some insight into recent developments. October 1, 1996: Several States already have welfare plans in place, most notably Wisconsin (with its W-2 system), California and New York. A team of NewsHour correspondents analyze these systems for effectiveness and preparedness. Good-bye AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children). After months of wrangling, and three attempts, the 104th Congress finally sent a Welfare Reform package that survived the President's veto. The reason for the three rounds: Republican bills sent to President Clinton were frowned upon as "extremist" by the White House. A version acceptable to the President was finally signed in August, and went into effect October 1. A new era in federal entitlement assistance arrived, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children as we knew it was gone. The President signed the welfare reform bill reluctantly. But ready or not, the bill has sent states scrambling to develop infrastructures to handle $16.3 billion in new monies - in the form of "block grants" - that they will be receiving.

38. NewsHour:Welfare who was instrumental in passage of the welfare reform bill five years ago; June 20, 2001 Public housing Elizabeth Brackett reports from Chicago, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/welfare/welfare.html

February 14, 2005 Welfare to Work A report about families, especially single mothers, trying to get off welfare and into the work force, in part one of a two-part series. May 14, 2002 Welfare Reform Revisited After a report from Kwame Holman on the renewed debate over welfare reform, Jim Lehrer talks with Rep. Clay Shaw (R-Fla.), who was instrumental in passage of the welfare reform bill five years ago; and Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), leader of his party's alternative welfare plan. May 14, 2002 Making Marriage Work Betty Ann Bowsers looks at a welfare program in Oklahoma that encourages marriage. May 3, 2002 Revisiting Welfare As the 1997 Welfare Reform Law comes up for reauthorization, Betty Ann Bowser looks at the impact it has had in the state of Connecticut. April 24, 2002 Moving On Spencer Michels reports from central California on paying welfare recipients to relocate to where jobs are more plentiful. August 23, 2001

39. New HAC Study On Rural Housing And Welfare Reform The study, entitled Rural housing and welfare reform, is based on data from the American housing Survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census for HUD. http://www.nhlp.org/html/hlb/1297/1297hacreport.htm

What’s New? Housing Program Information: Public Housing Section 8 Section 8 Homeownership HUD Rental Housing ... Search National Housing Law Project Housing Law Bulletin New HAC Study on Rural Housing and Welfare Reform The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) has just released a 70-page study finding that, although most rural families who receive welfare assistance also earn income, about two-thirds of them live below the poverty level and more than half also had major housing problems. "Welfare reform will have a major impact in rural communities," says HAC Executive Director Moises Loza, "but it’s hard to believe it will be a positive impact." Access to well paying jobs, childcare and transportation is even more difficult in rural areas than in urban communities. In many cases, rural families are already earning as much as they can in their communities. The prospect of welfare cuts is therefore a bleak prospect for families already struggling to meet their shelter costs and provide other necessities. Unless families can replace welfare assistance with wages, they will have less money to pay for housing when their welfare benefits run out. Key findings of the HAC report show that the housing situation for low-income rural families is already critical.

40. HUD Offers PHAs Guidance On Welfare Reform In an October 22, 1996, letter,1 HUD offers guidance on welfare reform HUD promises cooperation with housing authorities making the transition to the http://www.nhlp.org/html/hlb/1196/1196welfare.htm

What’s New? Housing Program Information: Public Housing Section 8 Section 8 Homeownership HUD Rental Housing ... Search National Housing Law Project Housing Law Bulletin HUD Offers PHAs Guidance on Welfare Reform Early and aggressive participation in the 50-plus state planning processes that will shape welfare reform is the predominant message in recent advice offered by HUD to the 3,400 public housing authorities (PHAs) nationwide. In an October 22, 1996, letter, HUD offers guidance on welfare reform following enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. The letter sets out the principal known ramifications of welfare reform and includes a primer on immediate steps PHAs can take to smooth the transition to the revised welfare system for residents and attempt to somewhat mitigate its adverse impacts on PHA operations. The letter contains several helpful attachments: (1) a HUD-prepared impact analysis; (2) a Department of Health and Human Services description of the principal provisions of the new welfare law; (3) a description of the law’s impact on legal immigrants; (4) a state-by-state breakdown comparing the new Temporary Assistance of Needy Families (TANF) block grant with AFDC; (5) a description of the President’s proposed jobs program; and (6) a summary of HUD’s existing employment and training programs.

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