Annual Evaluation Plan—

Fiscal Year 2025 (Revised)

Annual Evaluation Plan—Fiscal Year 2025 (Revised)

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

June 25, 2024

Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1

Evidence-Building at HUD ....................................................................................................................... 1

Requirements of the Evidence Act .......................................................................................................... 1

Policy Framework and HUD’s Strategic Plan ........................................................................................... 2

Significant Evaluation Activities .............................................................................................................. 3

Dissemination Efforts .............................................................................................................................. 3

New Significant Evaluation Activities Planned for Fiscal Year 2025 ............................................................ 4

Ongoing Evaluation Activities ..................................................................................................................... 5

Publications ............................................................................................................................................ 6

Other Milestones .................................................................................................................................... 9

Introduction

This document presents the revised Annual Evaluation Plan for fiscal year 2025 for the U.S. Department

of Housing and Urban Development (HUD or the “Department”).1 HUD publishes an Annual Evaluation Plan (AEP) each year to document the major evaluation activities it plans to undertake in that fiscal year. Significant evaluation activities are those that meet defined criteria for topical relevance, coordination, and commitment of resources. The AEP describes the new significant evaluation activities the Department plans to undertake in the fiscal year and lists the significant evaluation activities that are already underway and will continue through the fiscal year. The remainder of this introduction provides background on HUD’s evaluation activities and how the AEP relates to HUD’s Strategic Plan and Learning Agenda.

Evidence-Building at HUD

HUD administers a diverse array of programs, including public housing, assisted multifamily housing, and tenant-based rental assistance; Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance; the Ginnie Mae guaranty on mortgage-backed securities; lead hazard control and healthy homes grants; fair housing and civil rights investigation, compliance, and enforcement; community development and housing block grants; homeless assistance grants; and disaster recovery support. Since HUD’s formation in 1965, research, statistics, and other evidence have been central in shaping housing and community development policy nationally.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) leads HUD’s efforts related to evidence-based policymaking. PD&R’s mission is to provide reliable and objective research on housing and community development that is relevant for HUD and its constituents and enables informed policy decisions. PD&R focuses on finding definitive answers to questions about which programs work and how they can be improved through quick-turnaround studies and long-term evaluations that systematically assess impacts and outcomes and shed light on paths to improvement. In this way, PD&R helps drive HUD’s evidence-based policymaking, promoting the best possible policies and programs through accurate data, rigorous research, and sound policy advice. In addition to PD&R, several other offices maintain evaluation or data analytic functions.

HUD’s Evaluation Policy Statement articulates the core principles and practices of the Department’s evaluation and research activities. HUD updated the Evaluation Policy Statement in August 2021, reaffirming the Department’s commitment to conducting rigorous, relevant evaluations and using evidence from evaluations to inform policy and practice. The Policy Statement applies to all HUD-sponsored evaluations and regulatory impact analyses; it also applies to the selection of projects, contractors, and HUD staff involved in evaluations.

Requirements of the Evidence Act

Building on the recommendations of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, in 2019, Congress passed the bipartisan Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (Evidence

Act).2 The Evidence Act and the Office of Management and Budget’s implementing guidelines

1 The original Fiscal Year 2025 AEP was published in February 2024. This revised version is updated based on the 2024

Appropriations Act (Public Law 118-42, March 9, 2024) and the HUD portion of the President’s FY2025 Budget submitted to Congress (March 2024).

2 Public Law 115–435 (132 STAT. 5529). ‘‘Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.’’

established several important new requirements for federal agencies.3 Key requirements include developing a Learning Agenda that identifies the most policy-relevant and timely research questions for an agency to pursue during a 5-year period; a Capacity Assessment for Research, Evaluation, Statistics, and Analysis that assesses the coverage, quality, methods, effectiveness, and independence of an agency’s evidence-building and analysis activities for supporting evidence-based policymaking; and Annual Evaluation Plans that communicate significant planned research and evaluation activities for the coming fiscal year.

HUD published its Interim Learning Agenda and Annual Evaluation Plan—Fiscal Year 2022 in 2021,

followed the next year by the (final) Learning Agenda: Fiscal Years 2022–2026, the Capacity Assessment,

the Annual Evaluation Plan—Fiscal Year 2023, the Annual Evaluation Plan—Fiscal Year 2024, and the

Learning Agenda: Fiscal Years 2022–2026 Supplement. These documents are publicly available on the huduser.gov website.

Policy Framework and HUD’s Strategic Plan

The Evidence Act closely associates AEPs with each agency’s strategic planning process. Strategic plans include material on evidence-building, and the Evidence Act requires Learning Agendas to align with and support these plans and to reflect knowledge gained through evidence-building activities. The evidence-building priorities identified in this AEP align with the major goals identified in the Department’s Fiscal Year 2022–2026 Strategic Framework.

The AEP also aligns with HUD’s Learning Agenda, providing a real-time update on the major evaluation activities the Department is undertaking. To connect the evaluation activities in the AEP to HUD’s programs and mission, the AEP adopts the policy topic categories developed for the Learning Agenda, which sorts priority research questions into 11 crosscutting policy topic areas.

Exhibit 1 shows the alignment between policy topics used in HUD’s Learning Agenda (as amended by the Learning Agenda Supplement) and the Department’s strategic goals. Each policy topic area is flexible enough to contribute to most, if not all, of the strategic goals; however, the exhibit presents a single primary alignment highlighting the balance of the research questions under each topic that contribute to Departmental goals.

Exhibit 1. Alignment of Policy Topics to HUD’s Strategic Goals

Policy Topic Aligned Strategic Goals

Community Development and Place-Based Initiatives Goal 1: Support underserved communities

Core Housing Programs Goal 2: Ensure access to and increase production of

affordable housing

Disaster Recovery, Energy, and Climate Change Goal 4: Advance sustainable communities

Fair Housing Goal 1: Support underserved communities

Homeownership Goal 3: Promote homeownership

Housing Finance and Affordable Housing Supply Goal 2: Ensure access to and increase production of

affordable housing

Housing and Health Goal 4: Advance sustainable communities

Indian, Tribal, and Territory Issues Goal 1: Support underserved communities

3 The primary implementation guidance is in Memorandum M-19-23 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-

content/uploads/2019/07/M-19-23.pdf and Circular A-11 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-

content/uploads/2018/06/a11.pdf#page=776&zoom=100,0,0.

Policy Topic Aligned Strategic Goals

Self-Sufficiency and Economic Opportunity Goal 2: Ensure access to and increase production of

affordable housing

Vulnerable and Special Populations Goal 1: Support underserved communities

Enhanced Data and Methods Goal 5: Strengthen HUD’s internal capacity

Significant Evaluation Activities

The evaluation activities in the Fiscal Year 2025 AEP are a mix of long-running priorities, efforts to continue learning from existing projects, and opportunities to study new Departmental initiatives. The AEP does not capture every way HUD builds or uses evidence in support of its mission. Instead, the AEP focuses on significant evaluation activities, defined as activities that meet the following criteria for topical relevance, coordination, and commitment of resources and that meet the Evidence Act’s definition of evaluation as provided below.

• Topical Relevance. Significant evaluation activities address pressing questions and shed insights into important issues for the Department. These projects investigate unaddressed evaluation

questions in the Learning Agenda or seek to respond thoughtfully and nimbly to emerging challenges and priorities of policymakers.

• Coordination. Significant evaluation activities require substantial advanced planning and cooperation. These projects leverage expertise, require buy-in across offices, and benefit a HUD

program or an overarching element of HUD’s mission.

• Commitment of Resources. Significant evaluation activities require investment. These projects

typically have secured funding through prior-year Congressional appropriations.

The work to expand the knowledge base around policy topic areas critical to HUD’s mission includes a substantial number of activities that would not be classified as “evaluations.” Per section 101(a) of the Evidence Act—

The term “evaluation” means an assessment using systematic data collection and analysis of one

or more programs, policies, and organizations intended to assess their effectiveness and

efficiency.4

This definition clarifies that many activities critical to the everyday work of PD&R and the Department as a whole—such as data collection, modeling, monitoring efforts, exploratory research, and producing guidance and technical assistance—are not included in the AEP. These efforts can and do contribute to significant evaluation activities but are not in themselves evaluations. Other documents, such as HUD’s

annual Agency Performance Plans and Reports, discuss these related efforts in more detail.5

Dissemination Efforts

Major evaluations offer an important opportunity for HUD to share best practices, translate complex findings, and ensure that stakeholders have access to actionable information. Each evaluation typically includes both broad and targeted dissemination strategies based on the nature of the findings and the stakeholders involved. The core of HUD’s approach to disseminating evidence is huduser.gov, the Department’s research and communication platform that PD&R operates. The site is updated regularly with reports, briefs, and data releases associated with all major evaluation activities. PD&R stakeholders

4 5 U.S.C. § 311(3); https://www.govregs.com/uscode/title5_partI_chapter3_subchapterII_section311.

5 https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/spm/appr.

have access to more than 10,000 research reports, articles, books, and data sources; during fiscal year 2023, customers downloaded an average of 988,300 files per month from the huduser.gov research portal. For evaluations covering pressing issues or with significant findings, PD&R’s Assistant Secretary (or highest ranking official) will often write a foreword to the report emphasizing the importance of the work to the Department’s and administration’s priorities. In addition to posting findings and datasets, PD&R publishes the research designs (hypotheses, outcome measures, and analysis methods) for major evaluations on huduser.gov at the outset of these projects, providing greater transparency to HUD’s evaluation work.

Beyond products associated with a specific evaluation, PD&R produces several periodicals that may draw from recently completed research and help ensure that the findings reach different audiences.

• The Edge. The Edge is PD&R’s biweekly online magazine, providing news, a message from PD&R leadership, and a wide range of information about housing and community development issues,

research, and best practices.

• Evidence Matters. Evidence Matters is designed to connect policymakers, researchers,

advocates, and industry members with clear, accessible, and timely information on important housing and community development topics. Since its first publication in 2011, Evidence Matters has been published approximately 30 times, and the subscriber base is more than 25,000, in addition to those who read it online.

• Cityscape. Cityscape is a multidisciplinary scholarly journal that PD&R publishes three times a year to advance the state of knowledge, policy, and practice in the areas of HUD’s mission. Each

issue includes at least one symposium of scholarly papers on a common theme. Each symposium has a guest editor.

• Policy & Practice. Policy & Practice provides innovative solutions for local policymakers and

practitioners to address current housing and community development challenges.

New Significant Evaluation Activities

HUD’s significant evaluation activities require support from Congress via the appropriations process. To conduct new activities in a given fiscal year, HUD generally needs funding appropriated to PD&R in the

previous fiscal year. Through its 2024 appropriations, HUD received funding for two new significant activities that will launch in fiscal year 2025, as well as funding for the ongoing Moving to Work (MTW) Evaluation. The two new funded studies are:

• Indian Housing Block Grant Competitive Program Evaluation

• Study of Missing Middle Financing

As part of HUD’s 2025 Budget Request, PD&R requested $24 million to support experimental demonstrations of innovative policies and programs, evaluations of current programs, and other policy-focused research (Research, Evaluations, and Demonstrations). This budget request included the following significant evaluation activities that Congress could potentially fund in the 2025 appropriations:

• Study of Medicaid Waivers for Health-Related Social Needs

• Study of Rent Reasonableness in the Housing Choice Voucher Program

• Direct Rental Assistance Research

• Evaluation of the Foster Youth to Independence Initiative

• Assessing Disaster and Natural Hazard Risk in Tribal Communities

• Understanding Risks and Impacts of Disasters and Natural Hazards on HUD-assisted Housing

• Examining the Impacts of Slow-Onset Disasters

• Housing Discrimination Research

• Research on Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness

• Evaluation of the Recovery Housing Program

Ongoing Evaluation Activities

The full body of evaluation work enables Congress, the Secretary, and other HUD principal staff to make informed decisions on budget and legislative proposals and strengthen housing and community development policy. PD&R maintains a list of ongoing research and evaluation efforts and a library of published reports, periodicals, and other evaluation resources on the office’s website, huduser.gov.

Exhibit 2 lists the significant evaluation activities expected to be ongoing in fiscal year 2025 and shows how they align with policy topic areas and the Department’s strategic goals. This list does not include all PD&R evaluation or research activities; it is limited to those that the PD&R Evidence Act team has determined to meet the definition of significant evaluation activities. Projects marked with an asterisk will be largely completed in Fiscal Year 2024 but may have final publications in Fiscal Year 2025. Following Exhibit 2 is a discussion of publications and other milestones related to ongoing evaluation activities achieved through December 2023.

Exhibit 2. Ongoing Significant Evaluation Activities by Strategic Goal and Policy Topic Area

Ongoing Evaluation Activity Policy Topic Area

Strategic Goal 1: Support Underserved Communities

1. Choice Neighborhoods Evaluation* Community Development and

2. Use and Effectiveness of CDBG in Local Jurisdictions* Place-Based Initiatives

3. National Family Self-Sufficiency Program Demonstration* Self-Sufficiency and Economic

4. Childcare in Assisted Housing Opportunity

5. Evaluation of MTW Asset Building programs

6. Broadband Access for HUD-Assisted Households

7. Evaluation of the HUD-DOJ Pay for Success Permanent Supportive Vulnerable and Special

Housing Demonstration Populations

8. Family Options 12-Year Study

9. Emergency Housing Voucher Evaluation

10. Eviction Protection Grant Program Evaluation

11. Emergency Rental Assistance Program Evaluation

Strategic Goal 2: Ensure Access to and Increase Production of Affordable

Housing

12. Evaluation of MTW Flexibilities for Smaller Public Housing Agencies Core Housing Programs

(also known as the Flexibility Cohort)

13. Evaluation of MTW Stepped and Tiered Rent Cohort

14. Evaluation of MTW Incentives for Landlords Cohort

15. Evaluation of Community Choice Demonstration

16. Evaluation of the Rental Assistance Demonstration*

17. Impact of RAD on Children in Assisted Households in New York State*

18. Rent Reform Demonstration*

19. Study of Capital Needs Assessments in Public Housing

20. Voucher Success Rate Study

21. PHA Use of COVID-19 Waivers and Effects for PHAs and Tenants

Strategic Goal 3: Promote Homeownership

Ongoing Evaluation Activity Policy Topic Area

22. First-Time Homebuyer Education and Counseling Demonstration* Homeownership

Strategic Goal 4: Advance Sustainable Communities

23. Effectiveness of Disaster Recovery Funding Disaster Recovery, Energy, and

Climate Change

24. Evaluation of Supportive Services Demonstration Phase 2—Integrated Housing and Health

Wellness in Supportive Housing (IWISH)

CDBG = Community Development Block Grant. DOJ = U.S. Department of Justice. MTW = Moving to Work. PHA = public housing agency. RAD = Rental Assistance Demonstration. *Study is expected to be completed in Fiscal Year 2024 but may have final publications in Fiscal Year 2025.

Publications from Significant Evaluation Activities (through December 2023)

• Evaluation of the Moving to Work Flexibility Cohort: First Year of MTW Eligibility (November 2023). The evaluation of the first cohort of agencies participating in the MTW expansion focuses on how smaller PHAs use the flexibility offered by their new MTW designation to achieve the statutory

objectives of the MTW program and what the consequences of that flexibility are for housing

authority operations and tenants. This report describes activities of the 31 PHAs in the flexibility

cohort through April 2022. As of that time, all 31 PHAs had finalized their designation as MTW

agencies, and 11 of the 31 were beginning to make use of the MTW flexibilities, evaluating eligibility

reexamination schedules, streamlining the process for examining income, and changing the

requirements calculating utility payments, for example. In this report, the second of five annual

reports for this evaluation,6 the PHAs share their experiences of onboarding to the MTW program

and describe how they worked to right-size their ambitious plans for MTW into a reasonable set of

policy priorities to tackle in their first year as an MTW agency. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Evaluation-of-the-Moving-to-Work-

Flexibility-Cohort-First-Year-of-MTW-Eligibility.pdf. (Policy Topic Area: Core Housing Programs)

• Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program Analysis (November 2023). This report analyzes the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. Established in the late 1980s, the program

provides senior homeowners aged 62 and older access to FHA-insured reverse mortgages, which

enable them to access the equity in their homes to support their financial and housing needs as they

age. This report evaluates the performance of the HECM program between 2000 and 2020—

considering borrower trends, cumulative net financial gains or losses to the FHA from the HECM

loans endorsed, and the effect of recent policy changes. The analysis in this report uses HUD-

provided HECM loan data plus economic data from other public data sources to illuminate

significant changes in the HECM program in the context of macroeconomic and market dynamics

and government policy responses. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/HECM-Report.pdf. (Policy Topic

Area: Homeownership)

• Research Design, Data Collection, and Analysis Plan (RDDCAP): Evaluation of the Community

Choice Demonstration (September 2023). The objective of the Community Choice Demonstration is to build rigorous evidence on how to advance the long-held goals of expanding residential choice

and facilitating moves to opportunity areas by families with children participating in the HCV

program. This rigorous multi-site experiment will test two types of interventions: comprehensive

mobility-related services (CMRS) and a smaller bundle of selected mobility-related services (SMRS).

6 See also the Baseline Report from this evaluation, published May 2023 and described below.

The first phase of the Demonstration will focus on the effects of being offered CMRS on the share of

families who move to an opportunity area and the duration of residency in an opportunity area. The

second phase of the Demonstration will examine the impacts of SMRS on these same outcomes and

the contrast between CMRS and SMRS. This RDDCAP provides a blueprint for the study

implementation, including: the elements of the intervention, the study’s implementation approach

and support of PHAs in Phase 1, the mixed-methods evaluation strategy (including the process,

impact, and cost studies), the preparations for Phase 2 research and beyond, and data security

measures. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Research-Design-Data-Collection-

and-Analysis-Plan.pdf. (Policy Topic Area: Core Housing Programs)

• Supporting Aging in Place Through IWISH: Results from the First Phase of the Supportive Services Demonstration (June 2023). The evaluation of the Supportive Services Demonstration is a large, cluster-randomized controlled trial that tests the Integrated Wellness in Supportive Housing (IWISH)

model, which leverages coordinated service delivery to address the interdependent health and

supportive service needs among older residents in HUD-assisted properties. The IWISH model is

intended to reduce unplanned hospitalizations and use of other types of acute care, increase the

use of primary and nonacute care, and increase the length of stay in housing by reducing transitions

to long-term care facilities. The model includes a full-time Resident Wellness Director and half-time,

nonclinical Wellness Nurse embedded at the property to coordinate health and social services and

implement six core components. This report provides a quantitative analysis of the impact of IWISH

on residents’ healthcare utilization and housing stability at the end of the first 3 years of the

Demonstration. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Supporting-Aging-in-Place-Through-

IWISH-Report-2022.pdf. (Policy Topic Area: Vulnerable and Special Populations)

• Evaluating MTW Flexibility for Smaller PHAs: Baseline Report (May 2023). The evaluation of the first cohort of agencies participating in the MTW expansion focuses on how smaller PHAs use the

flexibility offered by their new MTW designation to achieve the statutory objectives of the MTW

program and what the consequences of that flexibility are for housing authority operations and

tenants. This baseline report, the first of five annual reports for this evaluation, uses data from MTW

applications and telephone interviews to explore PHA motivations for participating in MTW. The

report also documents the characteristics of the PHAs in the evaluation and their tenants prior to

MTW designation. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Evaluating-MTW-Flexibility-for-

Smaller-PHAs-Baseline-Report.pdf. (Policy Topic Area: Core Housing Programs)

• Nearing the Finish Line: 5-Year Findings From the Family Self-Sufficiency Evaluation (May 2023). In 2012, HUD commissioned a national random assignment evaluation of the Family-Self Sufficiency

(FSS) program’s impacts on labor market and other quality-of-life outcomes for households receiving

HCVs. The FSS program has two key components: case managers who work with participant

households to develop individualized self-sufficiency plans and access other community services,

and savings and asset development via interest-bearing escrow accounts based on increases in

earnings. This report examines FSS program implementation, participants’ engagement in the

program, and program impacts on labor force participation and government benefits receipt 5 years

following random assignment. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Family-Self-Sufficiency-Evaluation-

Year-5-Report.pdf. (Policy Topic Area: Self-Sufficiency and Economic Opportunity) • Participation and Labor Market Impacts for the First 24 Sites to Replicate HUD's Jobs Plus Program: Final Report (May 2023). This final report assesses participation and labor market outcomes for public housing residents from the first 24 sites in the scale-up of the Jobs Plus

program. The program model was first demonstrated in six sites from 1998 through 2003 and

showed evidence of having a positive impact on residents’ earned income. In 2014, HUD began a

replication of the Jobs Plus program. As of May 2023, roughly $145 million in 60 grants has been

awarded. This study examines the implementation, effectiveness, and impact of the first three

replication cohorts, composed of 24 grantees and 31 developments. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Jobs-Plus-Replication-Study-Final-

Report.pdf. (Policy Topic Area: Self-Sufficiency and Economic Opportunity)

• Jobs Plus Outcomes Evaluation: Long-Term Effects from the Original Jobs Plus Demonstration: Employment and Earnings for Public Housing Residents After 20 Years (May 2023). This report examines the long-term outcomes of the Jobs Plus Demonstration (implemented from 1998–2003).

The study’s two main questions are whether the program’s successes that were observed in earlier

studies of adult residents’ employment and earnings are sustained 15 years after the program

ended, and whether the gains in earnings of residents also translated into improvements in their

children’s employment and earnings. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Jobs-Plus-Long-Term-Effects.pdf.

(Policy Topic Area: Self-Sufficiency and Economic Opportunity)

• Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program: Final Report (March 2023). In 2017, HUD awarded $33 million to 10 CoCs in Round 1 of the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to develop and implement

coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending homelessness of youth aged 14–24.

Under contract to PD&R, Westat conducted a 4-year evaluation of this initial set of 10 YHDP sites.

The evaluation employed a longitudinal, cross-site implementation evaluation comparing outcomes

for the selected sites to outcomes of three non-YHDP comparison CoCs. The study seeks to

understand three key areas: 1) the baseline status of the systems in place within each selected

community that served targeted youth; 2) the changes to systems that improved access to housing

and services for targeted youth over time; and 3) changes to how many youth were reached by local

systems and their demographic composition. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Evaluation-of-the-YHDP-Final-

Report.pdf. (Policy Topic Area: Vulnerable and Special Populations)

• Evaluation of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD): Early Findings on Choice Mobility Implementation (March 2023). The Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), authorized by Congress in 2012, allows PHAs to convert their public housing properties to either Project-Based Vouchers or

to Project-Based Rental Assistance Section 8 contracts to help address properties’ short-term capital

needs and preserve their long-term viability. RAD residents have a right called choice mobility, which

allows them to request tenant-based rental assistance after living on the RAD property for a

minimum period. This report assesses the implementation and usage of choice mobility through

interviews with a small number of PHAs, property owners, and residents. The report is part of a

larger evaluation of RAD that will assess the implementation and impact of choice mobility, the long-

term preservation and financial viability of converted properties, the adequacy of asset

management for RAD conversions, and PHA organizational change. The report is available at

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/RAD-Early-Findings-on-Choice-

Mobility-Implementation.pdf. (Policy Topic Area: Core Housing Programs)

Other Milestones

• Moving-to-Work (MTW) Expansion Evaluation. First launched in fiscal year 2016, the MTW

Expansion Evaluation is a multi-cohort expansion plan to evaluate a suite of MTW policies.

Evaluations of the first three cohorts of the MTW Expansion Evaluation are underway. In October 2023 , HUD initiated the evaluation of the Asset Building cohort .

• Family Options 12-Year Study. The Family Options Study is a multi-site random assignment experiment designed to study the impact of various housing and services interventions for homeless

families. HUD launched the original Family Options Study in 2008 and published a series of reports

between 2013 and 2016. In 2021, HUD began working on the 12-Year Study, designed to follow up

with the original families enrolled in the Demonstration some 12 years after random assignment.

HUD published the research design for the 12-Year Study in 2022 and, in March 2023, hit a major milestone with the launch of the Study’s survey of adult heads of household, followed by the launch

of a survey of children in April 2023.

• Housing Choice Voucher—Community Choice Demonstration (CCD). Launched in fiscal year 2021, the CCD evaluates the combination of incremental housing vouchers and PHA-provided,

comprehensive mobility-related services, such as pre- and post-move counseling and rent deposits,

designed to empower families to move to and remain in low-poverty areas. The study hit a major June 2023 milestone in by enrolling 1,000 families in the Demonstration.

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Table of Contents

Introduction .......................................................................................

Policy Framework and HUD’s Strategic Plan ..........................................................

Significant Evaluation Activities ..................................................................

New Significant Evaluation Activities Planned for Fiscal Year 2025 .................................

Ongoing Evaluation Activities ......................................................................

Publications .......................................................................................

Other Milestones ...................................................................................