Housing
Leaders: Matthew Desmond, Rebecca Diamond
The Housing RG is tasked with exploring the the inner workings of disadvantaged neighborhoods and the low-cost housing market, with a focus on (a) the relationship between housing, employment, and poverty, (b) the causes, dynamics, and consequences of eviction, and (c) the effectiveness of housing vouchers and other housing programs. A sampling of our ongoing projects follows.
Evictions and poverty: Are evictions an important cause of deep and extreme poverty? In collaboration with Raj Chetty, Matt Desmond is starting a project on the long-term consequences of eviction that will reveal the extent to which deep and extreme poverty can be reduced with a “housing first” policy that ramps up federal housing programs.
Housing voucher policy: The U.S. currently spends approximately $20 billion per year on subsidized housing vouchers, but 80 percent of these vouchers are used in moderate- or high-poverty neighborhoods, where opportunities for upward mobility are typically limited. Can voucher policies be recast to increase the number of families moving to “high opportunity” neighborhoods?
CPI Collaborators
Matt Desmond |
Housing Research Group Leader; Professor of Sociology |
Princeton University | |
Rebecca Diamond |
Associate Professor of Economics; Housing Research Group Leader, Assistant Professor of Economics |
Stanford University | |
Lisa Gennetian |
Research Professor, Institute for Human Development and Social Change; Director, the beELL initiative , Director, Poverty and Economic Self-Sufficiency, National Center for Research on Hispanic Families and Children; Senior Researcher, National Bureau of Economic Research |
New York University | |
Robert Haveman |
Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Economics, Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty |
University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
Jackelyn Hwang |
Assistant Professor of Sociology |
Stanford University |