In the continuing effort to assist families who have experienced homelessness, HUD has contracted Abt to conduct a 12-year follow-up study of the families who participated in the Family Options Study to assess the long-term impacts of the assistance they received.
Barbara Fields, a national housing and community economic development leader, has joined Abt as Vice President, Housing and Community Initiatives. Fields’ career spans 30 years in executive roles with federal and state government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and in philanthropy.
HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher program helps families and individuals choose affordable housing that meets their needs, but it only works if the owners of private rental housing participate. Abt will evaluate HUD’s Moving to Work Landlord Incentives program, which tests whether incentives can increase landlord acceptance of vouchers.
Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana on August 29, 2021, on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In 2006, Brian Sokolconducted research on how the technology at a homeless shelter evolved in conjunction with the response following Katrina. Today, he updates the lessons learned.
California’s Project Roomkey has helped house more than 42,000 people experiencing homelessness who are COVID-19 positive or at high risk for contracting the disease. Abt will evaluate the program’s implementation, and the health and housing outcomes of people who used the program.
Stable housing and good health are intertwined. In HUD’s Integrated Wellness in Supportive Housing (IWISH) model, health and wellness staff are helping elderly residents living in HUD-assisted housing to age in place. Check outwhat we’re learning from IWISH in our new report.
Two new reports present the results of a quasi-experimental evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of Family Self-Sufficiency programs administered by Compass Working Capital in partnership with three Massachusetts housing agencies. The evaluation found Compass FSS to be cost-effective and associated with gains in earned income and declines in public benefits receipt.