The recent welfare reform debate has shaped a new standard for safety net programs -- not only must they redress problems, they must help move people toward economic self-sufficiency. But, until recently, government housing programs have been left out of this debate. In The Home Front, leading housing and welfare experts offer new research on the projected impacts of welfare reform on housing; outline lessons learned from past employment-focused welfare programs; document the need for evaluation of housing programs; and discuss the challenges welfare reform poses for housing administrators at the state and local levels.
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At last, the missing perspective in the analysis of welfare reform: the nexus of housing assistance, space, and economic self-sufficiency. Sandra Newman has assembled an impressive set of analysts who illuminate the complex interactions with maps, statistics, and computer simulations. The Home Front brings the story home. -- George Galster, Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
Housing issues are surprisingly absent from most discussions of welfare reform. The Home Front provides badly needed information and advice about how states can coordinate housing and welfare policies as they implement their individual versions of welfare reform. -- Greg J. Duncan, Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Much more than a compilation-The Home Front underscores why it is so important for welfare and housing reform to proceed in tandem, and tells us what we know about these critical linkages and how we know that we know it. -- Michael A. Stegman, MacRae Professor of Public Policy, and Director, Center for Community Capitalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The widening debate over welfare reform has largely ignored the importance of housing-which plays a vital role in the welfare system. This valuable book restores housing to its rightful place in the debate. -- Robert Moffitt, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Housing issues are surprisingly absent from most discussions of welfare reform. The Home Front provides badly needed information and advice about how states can coordinate housing and welfare policies as they implement their individual versions of welfare reform. -- Greg J. Duncan, Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Much more than a compilation-The Home Front underscores why it is so important for welfare and housing reform to proceed in tandem, and tells us what we know about these critical linkages and how we know that we know it. -- Michael A. Stegman, MacRae Professor of Public Policy, and Director, Center for Community Capitalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The widening debate over welfare reform has largely ignored the importance of housing-which plays a vital role in the welfare system. This valuable book restores housing to its rightful place in the debate. -- Robert Moffitt, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Sandra J. Newman is the interim director of the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a research professor teaching in the Master's Program in policy studies. Her research focuses on the nature and effects of housing assistance policy for the poor and the housing problems and needs of vulnerable populations, including persons with severe mental illness, the homeless, welfare families, the frail elderly, and persons with physical disabilities.
--This text refers to the
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edition.
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