Housing and Communities

We develop and study housing assistance policies, community revitalization initiatives, and “place-based” employment programs that seek to improve the economic mobility of people who live in under-resourced neighborhoods.

Report

When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves

Interim Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project’s Applicant Study

Brief

WorkAdvance

Testing a New Approach to Increase Employment Advancement for Low-Skilled Adults

Brief

Encouraging Savings for Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals

Preliminary Implementation Findings from the SaveUSA Evaluation

Brief

Promoting Employment Stability and Advancement Among Low-Income Adults

Report

Civic Engagement in Camden, New Jersey: A Baseline Portrait

Brief

Subsidized Employment: A Strategy for Bad Economic Times and for the Hard-to-Employ

Report

Working Toward Self-Sufficiency

Early Findings from a Program for Housing Voucher Recipients in New York City

Brief

TANF Recipients with Barriers to Employment

Issue Focus

How a Safety Net Built Around Work Is Not Up to the Job

Project

The Family Self-Sufficiency Program Evaluation

Report

What Works in Welfare Reform

Evidence and Lessons to Guide TANF Reauthorization

Project

The “Make Work Pay” Experiments

Project

Evaluations of State Welfare-to-Work Programs

Methodological Publication

A Bayesian Reanalysis of Results from the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project

Working Paper

Dynamics of Neighborhood Quality in Chicago

An Analysis of the Interaction among Quality-of-Life Indicators from the New Communities Program Evaluation

Housing and Communities

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