The Jobs-Plus demonstration tested whether a program that combined employment and training services, new rent rules to "make work pay," and neighbor-to-neighbor outreach centering on work could make a difference in the economic prospects of public housing residents. Jobs-Plus operated in six housing developments across the country from 1998 to 2003, with the program model in place at most sites by 2000. A 2005 MDRC report showed that the program produced substantial earnings gains for residents in three of the six sites during the first four years after the program rolled out. A new analysis extends the follow-up to seven years - three years after the program ended - for the three sites with positive effects. Those sites had fully implemented and sustained all three program components; thus, they offer the best test of the Jobs-Plus concept. The goal of the extended analysis was to determine whether their positive effects would continue after the program ended.

This report is one in a series of reports on Jobs Plus:

• Promoting Work in Public Housing: The Effectiveness of Jobs-Plus (2005)
• Scaling Up a Place-Based Employment Program: Highlights From the Jobs Plus Pilot Program Evaluation (2017)
• HUD's Jobs Plus Pilot Program for Public Housing Residents: Ongoing Implementation Experiences (2019)
• HUD Jobs Plus Outcomes Evaluation - Long-term Effects from the Original Jobs Plus Demonstration: Employment and Earnings for Public Housing Residents after 20 Years (2023)
• Participation and Labor Market Impacts for the First 24 Sites to Replicate HUD's Jobs Plus Program: Final Report (2023)