Question

One of the hopes around the creation of the Section 8 Housing Choice Program was to promote families’ economic and social mobility.

(1) Describe, very briefly (few words), what the Section 8 housing program is.
(2) How might this program promote such mobility?
(3) What is one reason that the program has not been as successful as hoped?

Answer 1

One of the hopes around the creation of the Section 8 Housing Choice Program was to promote families’ economic and social mobility.

(1) Describe, very briefly (few words), what the Section 8 housing program is.

It is a program that permits private landlords to rent homes and apartments at fair market rates to qualified low-income tenants, with a rental subsidy managed by Home Forward.

(2) How might this program promote such mobility?

· Through empowering families to make mobility moves like payment standards.

· Creating the right incentives for agencies

· Increasing owners participation

(3) What is one reason that the program has not been as successful as hoped?

This I because the program became an idiom for housing that is, to many, indistinguishable from the public-housing properties that the program was created to help create an escape for families.