New Updates on PD&R Edge

RESEARCH

Evaluating the RAD Choice Mobility Option, Part 3: PHA and Property Outcomes
In a 2023 report, researchers examined the property-level and PHA-level effects of the Choice Mobility option, which allows residents of RAD-converted properties to request a tenant-based (rather than project-based) voucher that they can use to move to a housing unit that better suits their needs. Although the Choice Mobility option may indirectly impact properties through unit turnover, maintenance costs at RAD properties, and demand for tenant-based vouchers, recent research shows that Choice Mobility has not negatively impacted the voucher program or properties.

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PD&R LEADERSHIP

WWII Emergency War Housing
In the Leadership Message, Cindy Campbell, director of PD&R’s International and Philanthropic Affairs Division, discusses the efforts of the federal government during the Second World War to ensure a sufficient amount of safe, high-quality housing for workers laboring on the home front to supply the nation’s war effort. This important work was publicized in various brochures and reports of the era and offers a glimpse of how adequate housing played a part in securing victory.

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