HUD’s Jobs Plus Pilot Program for Public Housing Residents: Ongoing Implementation Experiences

Author(s): Verma, Nandita     Tessler, Betsy L.     Greenberg, David H.     Yang, Edith     Sutcliffe, Sophia     MDRC     Webb, Michael D.     Rohe, William M.     Jaramillo, Atticus     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill     Khare, Amy T.     Miller, Emily K.     Joseph, Mark L.     Case Western Reserve University    

The HUD Jobs Plus Program seeks to increase public housing residents’ earnings and employment outcomes. The model has three core components: (1) Employment-related services, (2) Jobs Plus Earned Income Disregard, and (3) Community Supports for Work.

This process study documents the implementation lessons and challenges experienced by the nine public housing agencies that received Jobs Plus grants in FY 2015. The report examines the program’s implementation through a little beyond halfway into the four-year grants (April, 2015 through early 2018). It describes the activities and partnerships of the grantees and the extent to which sites are successfully implementing the program. The report shows that PHAs are able to implement this ambitious program and describes some of the problems that sites faced and how they and HUD dealt with them.

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

• Promoting Work in Public Housing: The Effectiveness of Jobs-Plus (2005)
• Sustained Earnings Gains for Residents in a Public Housing Jobs Program: Seven-Year Findings from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration (2010)
• Scaling Up a Place-Based Employment Program: Highlights From the Jobs Plus Pilot Program Evaluation (2017)
• 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)

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