81. Real Public Housing Reform By Howard Husock And reform of housing assistance is long overdue. But unlike welfare, public housing (whether in housing projects or in private apartments paid for by http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_2_12_03hh.html

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82. City Journal Spring 2003 | Real Public Housing Reform By Howard Husock reform of housing assistance along such lines is long overdue. Public housing is really the last untouched outpost of the vast welfare support system that http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_sndgs04.html

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83. KnowledgePlex: Is Housing Mobility The Key To Welfare Reform? Lessons From Chica Since 1976, the Gautreaux program in Chicago has helped thousands of innercity low-income black families move to new neighborhoods within the city itself http://www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.html?id=1207

84. KnowledgePlex: Housing, Welfare Reform, And Self-Sufficiency: An Assessment Of T William M. Rohe and Rachel Garshick Kleit study selfsufficiency programs available to public housing residents under the federal Family Self-Sufficiency http://www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.html?id=4533

85. TAP: Vol 8, Iss. 32. The Hidden Paradox Of Welfare Reform. Christopher Jencks. Their alternative to Clinton s original welfare reform bill had tougher work The rest go to tenants in public housing, some of which is awful and some http://www.prospect.org/print/V8/32/jencks-c.html

This is an archived page of The American Prospect. For other pages: Print Issue Online Articles Tapped Home ... Moving Ideas Network The Hidden Paradox of Welfare Reform By Christopher Jencks Issue Date: 0.0.00 Print Friendly Email Article W hen Bill Clinton first sought the presidency, he promised to "end welfare as we know it." Instead of letting single mothers stay home until their children were fully grown, he argued that mothers who sought government help should go to work within two years. Polls showed overwhelming popular support for this change, but there were two big problems. First, some welfare recipients are only marginally employable. Second, welfare mothers who find jobs mostly earn between $5 and $7 an hour. Since that is not enough to support a family, they still need help paying their bills if they are to keep their families together. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which the Republican Congress passed and Clinton signed last summer, assumes that raising the minimum wage to $5.15 and expanding the EITC will suffice to ensure that all working mothers can pay their bills. The law deals with mothers whom nobody wants to hire by allowing states to exempt up to 20 percent of their caseload from its five-year lifetime limit on welfare receipt. These solutions reflect the usual triumph of hope over experience. Raising the cost of altruism almost always reduces its frequency. Once legislators digest the fact that cutting TANF outlays by a dollar will add a full dollar to the funds available for more popular programs like schools, convention centers, or tax cuts, single mothers' share of their state's budget will almost inevitably shrink. Since the federal block grant will not rise with inflation, its real value will also shrink. To get out of the resulting fiscal bind, states will have to tighten their time limits, let benefits lag behind inflation, or both. More than a third of the states have already adopted time limits more restrictive than the ones Congress mandated. As the fiscal crunch intensifies, more and more states will presumably follow this path.

86. From The Office Of Senator Kerry I am pleased today to introduce the welfare reform and housing Act. This bill contains measures to improve access to adequate and affordable housing for http://kerry.senate.gov/text/cfm/record.cfm?id=182396

87. The Home Front: Implications Of Welfare Reform For Housing Policy, Sandra J. New Downloadable ! Author(s) Murray, Michael P.. 2001 Abstract No abstract is available for this item. http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/regeco/v31y2001i1p111-118.html

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88. The Buck Stops Here: The New York Times On Welfare Reform But back in 1996, the welfare reform bill was a draconian means of to get better housing or move higher on the public housing waiting list. http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2004/07/new-york-times-on-welfare-reform.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=3152270"); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/4.css); Notify Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? BlogThis! The Buck Stops Here Wednesday, July 07, 2004 The New York Times on Welfare Reform The New York Times, today [N]one of the shortcomings of the G.O.P.-controlled Congress are more confounding than its failure to renew one of the acclaimed successes of the past decade, the welfare reform law of 1996. Much of the partisan angst and philosophical conflict that marked the original passage dissipated as the law sharply shrank welfare rolls by 60 percent and guided millions of recipients from the dole to low-income employment and career opportunities. In keeping with the law's emphasis, states and localities began exercising creative authority to tailor federal block grants to the particular child care, transportation and education needs of welfare recipients and the working poor. Renewal, with some moderate tinkering, seemed a no-brainer.

89. The Forum | Impacts Of Welfare Reform On Recipients Of Housing Assistance: Evide Summary of Impacts of welfare reform on Recipients of housing Assistance Evidence from Indiana and Delaware. http://www.researchforum.org/project_general_413.html

Overview of Programs Program Components Children Special Populations ... Research Database Impacts of Welfare Reform on Recipients of Housing Assistance: Evidence from Indiana and Delaware General Information View a brief abstract of this project. View a complete, printer-friendly profile of this project. Evaluator(s) Abt Associates, Inc. Investigator(s) Wang Lee ( Abt Associates, Inc. Domain Income Security/TANF Status Completed (final report released) Type Research and/or Program Evaluation Policy Analysis Program/Policy Description The three research questions addressed are: 1. What are the impacts of welfare reform on welfare recipients who receive federally funded housing assistance? 2. Do welfare recipients who receive federally funded housing assistance differ from welfare recipients who do not receive housing assistance in characteristics that might create barriers to employment? 3. How is the receipt of housing assistance related to subsequent employment and welfare receipt? This project uses several approaches to address the questions above, including estimation of experimental impacts on subgroups defined by type of housing assistance at random assignment, descriptive comparisons of family characteristics by type of housing assistance, and non-experimental estimates of the effects of housing assistance on employment and welfare receipt.

90. The Forum | Effects Of Welfare Reform On Housing Assistance Recipients Summary of Effects of welfare reform on housing Assistance Recipients. http://www.researchforum.org/project_general_261.html

Overview of Programs Program Components Children Special Populations ... Research Database Effects of Welfare Reform on Housing Assistance Recipients General Information View a brief abstract of this project. View a complete, printer-friendly profile of this project. Evaluator(s) Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University Investigator(s) Joseph Harkness ( Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University Sandra Newman ( Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University Domain Income Security/TANF Community/Neighborhood Status Completed with continuing analysis Duration Jul 1998 - Jun 2001 Type Research and/or Program Evaluation Policy Analysis Program/Policy Description This project uses HUD microdata to compare the characteristics, earnings, and TANF participation of housing assistance recipients with a similar population drawn from the Current Population Survey. In addition, using survey data we have collected from public housing authorities who administer assisted housing programs, we test whether programs administered by the most pro-active housing authorities have accelerated the movement of housing assistance recipients into the workforce. Finally, we test for differential effects of the three main types of housing assistance: public housing, privately-owned project-based housing, and rental certificates and vouchers. Notes No notes reported.

91. Housing Again Resources Politics Of Personal Responsibility A searchable database of information on housing and related social policy welfare reform is one part of a national picture in which those at the top http://action.web.ca/home/housing/resources.shtml?x=66852

92. Homeless People's Network: Welfare Reform & Housing And Homelessness Newsletter The paper, The Effects of welfare reform on housing Stability and Homelessness Current Research Findings, Legislation, and Programs, was just posted on http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/archives/Apr99/0027.html

Tom Boland wgcp@earthlink.net Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Tom Boland: "California's prisons will be full in 2001 FWD" Previous message: Tom Boland: "Toronto's internal exiles: 1 in 4 homeless are Aboriginal people" FWD Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:34:41 -0400 To: housingwelfare@lists.cbpp.org lauran@www.iwpr.org http://www.iwpr.org/WRNN10.html The newsletter describes how current housing legislation and TANF policies affect current and former recipients, summarizes research findings on the impact of welfare reform on the housing stability of TANF recipients, and highlights policy and program practices that are occurring across the United States to address problems low-income families face securing and maintaining housing. The paper also includes suggestions about ways to improve welfare reform research studies to better capture the housing experiences of families. If after reading the paper you have suggestions, clarifications, or find information that needs to be corrected please let me know. We often update our past newsletter issues. Thanks again for all of your help and expertise, Laura Nichols, Research Fellow Institute for Women's Policy Research 1400 20th Street NW, Suite 104 Washington, DC 20036 Phone (202) 785-1921 Fax (202) 833-4362 e-mail: lauran@www.iwpr.org

93. SPD Working Paper SPD2000-2: Measuring Welfare Reform: Questions From Four Censu Measuring welfare reform Questions from Four Census Bureau Surveys Is this public housing that is, is it owned by a local housing authority or other http://www.sipp.census.gov/spd/workpaper/welpan.htm

DRAFT 2/22/2000 Measuring Welfare Reform: Questions from Four Census Bureau Surveys Present at the Midwest Welfare Peer Assistance Network (WELPAN) Meeting, Washington, DC, February 24-25, 2000 Jennifer Hess Pat Doyle Ed Welniak Table of Contents Page Housing and Energy Assistance Questions Food Assistance Questions Cash Assistance Questions Non-cash Benefits Questions Work Training Questions Measuring Welfare Reform: Questions from Four Census Bureau Surveys WELPAN Meeting (February 24-25, 2000 The Census Bureau conducts three major surveys to collect income and government program participation data. These include the Survey of Income Program Participation (SIPP), the Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Demographic Survey (also known as the CPS March Supplement), and the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD). Each of these surveys collects data on earnings, a full range of income sources, and government program participation. In addition to these surveys, the Census Bureau is conducting an experimental survey, referred to as the SIPP Methods Panel, to test new questions for the core SIPP interview. The attached table compares question wording across these four surveys for welfare-related cash and non-cash assistance including the following: housing and energy assistance, food assistance, cash assistance, non-cash benefits, and welfare to work activities.

94. Liberal Democrats : Welfare Reform Proposals Must Be Judged On Substance Not Spi Comment on the three welfare reform Bills announced in the Queen s Speech. “However, the early findings from evaluation of the Local housing Allowance http://www.libdems.org.uk/benefits/story.html?id=8665&navPage=news.html

95. BrothersJudd Blog: WELFARE REFORM CONTINUES: welfare reform CONTINUES. Hope on housing Policy President Bush’s new housing voucher plan aims to move families up and out of assisted housing. http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/014854.html

Search WWW Search brothersjudd.com Home Reviews Links Blog Daily Glossary Orrin's Stuff Email ... Main August 13, 2004 WELFARE REFORM CONTINUES: Hope on Housing Policy: President Bush’s new housing voucher plan aims to move families up and out of assisted housing. (Howard Husock, 11 February 2004, City Journal) The Bush administration’s new budget takes a crucial step toward reforming one of the federal government’s last unreconstructed, no-strings-attached welfare programs: HUD’s Section-8 housing vouchers. The voucher program began two decades ago as a conservative-supported alternative to public housing projects, already deemed a failed experiment for their endemic squalor and crime. Instead of placing a recipient of housing assistance in a project, the program gives her a voucher that subsidizes her rent in a regular apartment. Unfortunately, the Section-8 program has produced its own terrible side effects, even as it has surpassed traditional public housing in the number of people it supports—some 2 million today. Unlike welfare, Section-8 vouchers have remained an open-ended entitlement: no time limit applies to them. For this reason, they facilitate, just as welfare once did, the creation of single-parent households—families most at risk of long-term poverty and dependency and in which children disproportionately fail to flourish. Teen mothers clearly have been turning to Section 8s to start their own single-parent families. Between April 2002 and April 2003, 16,206 new voucher families were headed by people 21 or younger. Overall, out of the 1 million or so non-elderly, non-disabled Section-8 households, single parents head 783,000. The vouchers also discourage recipients from going out and getting jobs. Section-8 regulations require that three out of four vouchers go to households earning 30 percent or less of a region’s median income. The tenant portion of rent is capped at 30 percent of their income, which in effect means that many of these low-income Section-8 families pay miniscule amounts of rent. Since households must re-qualify for the program every year, if dirt-poor voucher families want to keep receiving housing aid or avoid paying more in rent, they need to keep their income way below the regional median—that is, they need to avoid work, or at least avoid reporting income. Getting married to a wage earner also makes little economic sense, since a recipient risks losing her entitlement—it’s a classic perverse incentive. Says one HUD official: “Housing authorities tell us all the time about voucher holders who quit their job the day before they have to re-qualify for eligibility.” ... Even better would be a plan that allowed them to use vouchers to buy their own places. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 13, 2004 05:49 PM

96. NRC - Abstract Details housing Assistance and the Effects of welfare reform Evidence from Connecticut and Minnesota. Authors. Verma, N., Riccio, J., Azurdia, G. Year 2004 http://www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov/search/detail.asp?ResID=13309

97. Internet Resources - Welfare To Work Vouchers - Office Of Public And Indian Hous welfare to Work Facts and topical studies related to housing and welfare issues. Excellent source for state government news, including welfare reform. http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/hcv/wtw/resources/bs12/

Public and Indian Housing Housing Choice Vouchers Welfare to Work Program overview ... Help Internet Resources - Welfare to Work Vouchers Information by State Print version Email this to a friend Jump to... Childcare Employment and Training Federal Government Resources Funding Resources ... Transportation To help you find more information on WtW Voucher Program issues, we've provided links on WtW-related topics below. Childcare The Administration for Children and Families Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) Food and Nutrition Information Center National Association of Child Care ... Welfare Information Network For more information about childcare programs for the WtW program, view our Childcare page. Employment and Training America's Career InfoNet. This one-stop shop, developed by the U.S. Department of Labor, links to free online assessments and tests. Career Key. The Career Key measures interests, abilities, and values, which translate into personal career choices. National Alliance of Business Workforce Development The NAB is a national business organization focused on increasing student achievement and improving the competitiveness of the workforce. Their site contains resources on training and education partners, information about the Workforce Investment Act, and other data and resources related to workforce development and partnership building.

98. Economic Success Clearinghouse (formerly Welfare Information Network) welfare ~ Cash assistance for lowincome families with dependent children Work supports ~ Services, such as child care and food, housing, http://www.financeproject.org/irc/win.asp

Promising Practices Catalog Economic Success Clearinghouse/WIN Out-of-School Time Professional Development in Education Finding Federal Funding ECONOMIC SUCCESS CLEARINGHOUSE (formerly Welfare Information Network) Economic Success Clearinghouse connects you to resources about effective policies, programs and financing strategies that help low-income and working poor families. Economic Success Clearinghouse resources include: Welfare ~ Cash assistance for low-income families with dependent children Workforce development ~ Services to help individuals connect to the job market, develop work-related skills, sustain employment, and advance in the labor market Work supports ~ Services, such as child care and food, housing, and transportation assistance, to help low-income families secure and retain employment Income supplements ~ Benefits, such as child support and tax credits, that boost the earnings of low-income workers Asset development ~ Supports designed to help low-income families build personal and financial resources, and achieve economic security Sign up for our Newsletter Work Supports and Low-Wage Workers: The Promise of Employment Our new report, funded by The Ford Foundation, addresses the critical issue of how employers can contribute to helping low-wage workers achieve greater self-sufficiency.

99. STANDARDS: On Welfare Reform An Overview of welfare reform. This page offers an all too brief consideration of contemporary efforts at welfare reform. We regret that time and space do http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V7N2/FEATURE/reform.html

An Overview of Welfare Reform This page offers an all too brief consideration of contemporary efforts at welfare "reform." We regret that time and space do not allow for more in-depth work on this worthy topic. We have, however, provided an array of links to some of the best national contacts in the U.S. It is our hope that up-and-coming activists/revolutionaries will join in the efforts to change the face of poverty and homelessness in this country. And we do, of course, recognize that these issues extend far beyond national boundaries. While we have included a few links to international resources, we invite our readers to email us with further suggestions. While they're standing in the welfare lines Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation Wasting time in the unemployment lines Sitting around waiting for a promotion Poor people gonna rise up And get their share Poor people gonna rise up And take what's theirs Don't you know You better run, run, run...

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