It's going to take more than housing voucher programs to bridge the gap.
Living in the right neighborhood can give a family a chance at moving up the income ladder — yet many lower-income households aren’t moving when given the option.
Families not only received housing vouchers, but also received individualized assistance in searching for places to live in higher-opportunity neighborhoods and putting together rental applications. A group of researchers from Harvard University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have spearheaded a project to explore how housing-assistance programs can work to combat this worrying trend.
The latest team of researchers partnered with the Seattle and King County Housing Authorities to launch a program called Creating Moves to Opportunity to explore why it is that low-income households don’t necessarily jump at the opportunity to move. They detailed their findings in a new working paper distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The results were staggering. Over half of the families who worked with the Creating Moves to Opportunity program rented units in high-opportunity neighborhoods, versus just over 14% of a control group that didn’t go through the program but did get housing vouchers. This disparity held true even in accounting for differences among the households based on income, race and immigration status.
Indeed, when the researchers asked people who moved to an arguably better neighborhood with assistance from the CMTO program why they hadn’t before, many responded saying that they didn’t possess the time, resources or knowledge of how to find better places to lives.
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