Just Released: Cityscape, Volume 6, Number 2: HousingAssistance and Welfare Reform

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At last - The latest issue of "Cityscape" is out!

The new issue of "Cityscape" - the second of three
releases scheduled for 2003 - takes a closer look at how
housing needs and housing assistance affects families
under welfare reform. Enactment of the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
(PRWORA) of 1996 significantly altered the U.S. system of
public assistance for low-income families, and had both
expected and unexpected impacts on the people and
neighborhoods served by the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) through public housing and
the Section 8 program.

Incorporating the most current research on this topic,
the articles included in this issue of "Cityscape" are
organized into three sections:

(1) Transition to Work: A careful statistical analysis of
the relationships between housing assistance and the
economic outcomes of welfare families, holding numerous
other variables constant.

(2) Life After Welfare: Four articles comparing various
outcomes among assisted and unassisted welfare families.

(3) Homeless Families: Articles in this section seek
to answer two basic questions about homeless families
with children: (a) Did welfare reform cause more
homelessness among poor families with children? and
(b) If homeless welfare families leave transitional
shelter with housing assistance, will they still be in
housing one year later?

The issue closes with a short descriptive article on work
participation and duration of assistance among HUD-
assisted tenants.

"Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research"
is published by HUD and is intended as a means of sharing
HUD-funded and other research on housing and urban policy
issues with scholars, government officials, and others
involved in setting policy and furthering research in
this area.

The current issue of "Cityscape" is available as a free
download at
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol6num2/index.html
or in printed form for $5 by calling HUD USER at
1-800-245-2691.
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