Title The voucher promise : "Section 8" and the fate of an American neighborhood / Eva Rosen

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 330 pages) : illustrations Contents Park Heights -- Housing insecurity & survival strategies -- The promise of housing vouchers -- The challenges of using the voucher -- "A tenant for every house" -- "Not in my front yard" -- Choosing to move, choosing to stay Summary "This book examines the Housing Voucher Choice Program, colloquially known as "Section 8," and the effect of the program on low-income families living in Park Heights in Baltimore. In a new era of housing policy that hopes to solve poverty with opportunity in the form of jobs, social networks, education, and safety, the program offers the poor access to a new world: safe streets, good schools, and well-paying jobs through housing vouchers. The system should, in theory, give recipients access to housing in a wide range of neighborhoods, but in The Voucher Promise, Rosen examines how the housing policy, while showing great promise, faces critical limitations. Rosen spent over a year living in a Park Heights neighborhood, getting to know families, accompanying them on housing searches, spending time on front stoops, and learning about the history of the neighborhood and the homeowners who had settled there decades ago. She examines why, when low-income renters are given the opportunity to afford a home in a more resource-rich neighborhood, they do not relocate to one, observing where they instead end up and other opportunities housing vouchers may offer them"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Alice Goffman American poverty Ben Austin Ben Carson Down, Out, and Under Arrest Esther Sullivan Evicted FMR Forrest Stuart Freddie Gray HCVP HUD High-Risers Manufactured Insecurity Matthew Desmond On the Run PHA Richard Rothstein The Color of Law The Wire ethnography fair market rent horizontal immobility housing insecurity housing projects low-income housing low-income renters poor neighborhoods public housing authority public housing rent subsidies residential mobility slumlords social policy social safety net urban affairs urban development urban sociology urban studies white flight Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2020) Subject Rent subsidies -- Maryland -- Baltimore Housing subsidies -- Maryland -- Baltimore Housing policy -- Maryland -- Baltimore SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban Economic history Housing policy Housing subsidies Rent subsidies SUBJECT Park Heights (Baltimore, Md.) -- Economic conditions Baltimore (Md.) -- Economic conditions Subject Maryland -- Baltimore Form Electronic book LC no. 2020000352 ISBN 0691189501 9780691189505

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