Video Spotlight
In this 9-month investigation, Frontline covers the issue of housing vouchers and the American Section 8 system. Young find that just one in four households eligible for Section 8 assistance are getting it, and the nation’s signature low-income housing construction program is costing more and producing less. The team investigates the inseparability of race and housing programs in America, tracing a legacy of segregation and discrimination that began more than 80 years ago:
Find Books
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The Voucher Promise
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020An in-depth look at America's largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of residents in one low-income Baltimore neighborhood. -
HUD rental assistance: improved guidance and oversight needed for utility allowances : report to congressional committees
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2024Report to congressional committees on improved guidance and oversight needed for utility allowances. -
Housing Policy in the United States
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021This landmark volume offers a broad overview that synthesizes a wide range of material to highlight the significant problems, concepts, programs and debates that all define the aims, challenges, and milestones within and involving housing policy.
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The following articles are a selection of resources available through BU Libraries:
- "Section 8 in the Courts: How Civil Rights Litigation Helped to Shape the Housing Choice Voucher Program" by Philip Tegeler and Sam Reece (2024). Available here.
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"Race and place based discrimination against Housing Choice Voucher holders in Greater Boston" by Jared Flippen (2021). Available here.
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"You Can’t Get There from Here: Mobility Networks and the Housing Choice Voucher Program" by Philip Garboden (2024). Available here.
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"The Evolution of Funding Policy in the Housing Choice Voucher Program" by Barbara Sard (2024). Available here.
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"The Effect of COVID-19 on Income Among Households in HUD's Housing Choice Voucher Program" by Jacqueline Bachand (2021). Available here.
Find Datasets
The Gap (National Low Income Housing Coalition) Housing cost burden by income group and affordable and available homes per 100 renter households, for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (Metro) area.
Income-Restricted Housing Inventory (Analyze Boston) This data, maintained by the Department of Neighborhood Development, is an inventory of all income-restricted units in the city.
Out of Reach: Two Bedroom Housing Wage by Zipcode (National Low Income Housing Coalition) The dollar amount shown for each zip code is the two-bedroom Housing Wage.
American Housing Survey (census.gov): The survey has been the most comprehensive national housing survey in the United States since its inception in 1973, providing current information on the size, composition, and quality of the nation’s housing and measuring changes in our housing stock as it ages.
HUD Data Portal: HUD provides interested researchers with access to the original datasets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, median family incomes and income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.
.gov Section 8 Data Portal: 11 datasets including property portfolios, small area fair market rent calculators, public housing agency, and subisidized household information.
