Between 1994 and 1998, MTO offered housing vouchers to families with low incomes who lived in public housing or private assisted housing projects in high-poverty neighborhoods and who had at least one child younger than 18. Private assisted housing projects are rental housing built by private owners through federal programs that required them to price some units to be affordable to people with low incomes. The vouchers subsidized the cost of renting new housing in neighborhoods of their choosing. The intervention required that families observe Section 8 housing voucher policies that limited the amount of time voucher recipients had to secure housing to 90 days, required voucher recipients to contribute 30 percent of their adjusted income to rent, and prohibited illegal drug use or alcohol abuse. The intervention was conducted in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Summary
The MTO Housing Vouchers for Use in Any Neighborhood Plus Mobility Counseling intervention provided housing vouchers and counseling services to help families with low incomes and at least one child younger than 18 find and lease private rental housing in low-poverty neighborhoods. The program was intended to support family well-being, defined in terms of the following characteristics: (1) mobility, housing, and neighborhood quality; (2) adult and child physical and mental health; (3) child educational achievement; (4) youth delinquency and risky behavior; (5) adult and youth employment and earnings, and (6) household income and public assistance receipt.
Studies of this intervention
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Implementation details
State(s) where implemented
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