The Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Community Choice Demonstration is a large-scale, multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to test and evaluate the effectiveness of providing voucher assistance and mobility-related services to families with children to encourage such families to move to lower-poverty areas and expand access to opportunity areas. Seven sites are participating in the Demonstration to offer mobility-related services to increase the number of voucher families with children living in opportunity areas. Participating PHAs are working together in their regions to adopt administrative policies that further enable housing mobility, increase landlord participation, and reduce barriers for families to move to opportunity areas. At each site, families with children receiving voucher assistance that agree to participate in the Demonstration will be randomly assigned to a treatment group that receives mobility-related services or a control group that receives business-as-usual services already offered by the participating PHAs. The rigorous evaluation will assess whether families in the treatment group are more likely to move to low poverty, high opportunity areas, how long families stay in those areas, and the costs associated with mobility-related services. The demonstration also includes two ancillary studies conducted at a subset of sites. The first is the Mobility Opportunity Vouchers for Eliminating Disparities (MOVED) Study, led by Johns Hopkins University and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to analyze the effect of mobility-related services on adult obesity and diabetes risk. The second is the Child Assessment, led and funded by HUD to examine the effect of mobility-related services on child health and well-being. Here is more information about the demonstration, research design, and upcoming reports and data products.

The CCD Phase 1 Final Report is expected to be published in early 2026. The CCD Phase 2 Rapid Cycle Evaluation Report and the Comprehensive Final Report are expected in 2028 and 2031, respectively.

Note: The status of this project is ongoing.