The Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Community Choice Demonstration is a large-scale, multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to test and evaluate the effectiveness of providing voucher assistance and mobility-related services to families with children to encourage such families to move to lower-poverty areas and expand access to opportunity areas. PHAs that are Eight sites were selected for the Demonstration will to implement housing mobility programs by offering mobility-related services to increase the number of voucher families with children living in opportunity areas. Participating PHAs will are working together in their regions to adopt administrative policies that further enable housing mobility, increase landlord participation, and reduce barriers for families to move across PHA jurisdictions through portability. At each site, families with children receiving voucher assistance that agree to participate in the Demonstration will be randomly assigned to a treatment group that receives mobility-related services or a control group that receives business-as-usual services already offered by the participating PHAs. The rigorous evaluation will assess whether families in the treatment group are more likely to move to low poverty, higher opportunity areas, how long families stay in those areas, the costs associated with mobility-related services. Here is more information about the demonstration, research design, and upcoming reports and data products.

Note: The status of this project is ongoing.