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8 August, 2024

Symposium articles include:

Fifty Years of Tenant-Based Rental Assistance

Guest editors Peggy Bailey and Brian McCabe introduce the symposium articles with a framework that looks back at the history of the HCV program and to its future.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/guest1.h…

Barbara Sard examines the negative impacts of Congress’s mid-1990s shift from multiyear to annual funding of the HCV program and offers recommendations for serving more families in need of rental subsidies.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Andrew J. Greenlee and Kirk McClure use administrative data from 2000 to 2022 to describe household-level participation in federal housing assistance programs and the prevalence of transitions between programs.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article2…

Gretchen Armstrong, Alexander Din, Mariya Shcheglovitova, and Rae Winegardner study the demographic changes and location patterns in households participating in the HCV program between 2010 and 2020.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article3…

Philip Tegeler and Sam Reece trace the impacts of civil rights litigation and advocacy on voucher portability, housing mobility, geographic limitations on voucher administration, residency preferences, Section 8 allocation and admissions policies, payment standards, and rules governing housing for persons with disabilities.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article4…

Philip M.E. Garboden, Eva Rosen, and Isaiah Fleming-Klink review previous literature on landlord participation in the HCV program and highlight the importance of understanding what landlords think about the program so that policymakers can develop more effective strategies to improve it.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article5…

Stefanie DeLuca and Jacqueline Groccia analyze research on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program and the Seattle-area Creating Moves to Opportunity program to highlight factors that facilitate successful moves to high-opportunity areas.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article6…

Martha Galvez and Brian Knudsen review the current evidence on source of income (SOI) discrimination and recommend research to document and describe voucher discrimination, understand effective enforcement of SOI protections, and identify ways to influence landlord decisions.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article7…

Greg Miller uses HUD’s internal administrative data to track tenant portability moves to neighborhoods of higher opportunity and identifies changes in neighborhood characteristics for moving households.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article8…

Lisa Sloane, Liz Stewart, and Kevin Martone provide an overview of mainstream (MS) and non-elderly disabled (NED) special purpose vouchers that includes their historical purposes, the challenges in administering MS and NED vouchers, how public housing agencies (PHAs) and their local partners have addressed these challenges, and how “lessons learned” from these PHAs and other research inform future implementation efforts.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article9…

Nichole Fiore, Jill Khadduri, and Sam Dastrup analyze a study that measured the extent to which people experiencing homelessness at the time of voucher issuance successfully found a landlord willing to offer them a lease.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Dan Emmanuel and Andrew Aurand examine the relationship between the HCV program and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program by offering background information on each program, reviewing what is known about their relationship, and identifying areas for data improvements and future research that can inform federal policymaking.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Daniel Teles and Alyse D. Oneto provide an overview of project-based vouchers (PBVs) by exploring the role of PBVs in the development and preservation of affordable housing, their effect on housing choice and access to more desirable neighborhoods, and the factors that should be considered in the evaluation of PBVs.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Will Fischer addresses the feasibility of expanding the HCV program given the history of the program supporting additional households without significantly increasing market rents.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Sarah Gallagher, Sophie Siebach-Glover, Alayna Calabro, Victoria Bourret, and Andrew Aurand review the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic and the strategies atypical of federal housing assistance programs that helped renters in crisis at an unprecedented scale.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Paul Joice, Katherine O’Regan, and Ingrid Gould Ellen consider whether and how providing the voucher rental subsidy directly to the recipient might mitigate three interrelated voucher program challenges: the administrative burdens on recipients, landlords, and housing authorities; recipients’ unsuccessful use of the vouchers after waiting many years to receive them; and program rules that distort behaviors despite the program’s goal of leveraging market efficiency.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Vincent J. Reina, Matthew Z. Fowle, Sara R. Jaffee, Rachel Mulbry, and Miranda Fortenberry examine the development, implementation, and impact of Philadelphia’s PHLHousing+ program, which disburses unconditional cash payments directly to tenants to eliminate their housing cost burden.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Refereed papers include:

“Complete Streets as a Redevelopment Strategy,” by Arthur C. Nelson and Robert Hibberd, presents the first comprehensive assessment of the role of Complete Streets as a redevelopment strategy. Using statistical analysis applied to 26 Complete Streets in 16 central counties, research reported in this article establishes associations between Complete Streets and increased jobs, people, and households; improved jobs-housing balance; increased commuting via transit, walking, and biking; working from home; and increased multifamily residential rents with respect to proximity, meaning that people are more willing to pay to be close to Complete Streets.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Articles in Cityscape's regularly appearing departments include:

Data Shop: “Improving Equitable Representation in Program Eligibility Data,” by Tracey Farrigan and Mariya Shcheglovitova
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

“Calculating County-Level Housing Choice Voucher Gaps: A Methodology,” by Shane Dabney
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article1…

Foreign Exchange: “Causes and Consequences of Zoning Reform in Auckland,” by Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article2…

“Learning From German Publicly Led Development Strategies to Create Mixed-Income, Mixed-Use Development Projects,” by Yonah Freemark and Tarsi Dunlop
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article2…

Industrial Revolution: “Mass Timber: A Sustainable Building Solution,” by Jackson Morrill
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article2…

Policy Briefs: “National Scan and Narrative Review of Landlord Engagement Activities in the United States,” by Jack Tsai and Victoria Solis
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num2/article2…