At this roundtable, which was co-sponsored by
PRRAC, we discussed the issues related to employment (economic success and inclusion) for low-wage households living in dispersed housing, particularly when moving from impacted high-poverty neighborhoods to less impacted communities, and catalogued promising practices to improve the economic outcomes and inclusion for employees, employers, and communities.
AGENDA, PRESENTATIONS, and BACKGROUND READING
Employment and Housing Roundtable
July 9, 2007
Opening statements were made by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Inclusion, PRRAC, and Baltimore Regional Housing Campaign and Thompson Mobility Program
Research panels: What do we know from the research and what are the implications for policy and program design?
Panel 1 – Low-wage employment in any setting
- Moderator – Margy Waller, Inclusion
- Shawn Fremstad, Inclusion
- Evelyn Blumenberg, UCLA
- Jason Perkins-Cohen, JOTF
- Heather Boushey, CEPR
Panel 2 - Employment and Housing: Evidence from evaluations of housing initiatives
- Moderator – Jeff Lubell, Center for Housing Policy
- Xav Briggs, MIT / Marge Turner, Urban Institute
- Michelle Wood, Abt
- Jim Riccio, MDRC
Panel 3 - Service Delivery Access: Recent Evidence
- Moderator – Margy Waller, Inclusion
- Scott Allard, Brown University
Panel 4 - Implications of Evidence
- Moderator – Mark Alan Hughes, University of Pennsylvania
- 1) How does this research evidence compare to experience in mobility programs and employment initiatives?
- 2) What further research is necessary?
- 3) How do we apply this evidence to new programs and policies for dispersed populations?
- 4) What steps can we take to further promising practices?
- 5) What evidence and practices should be disseminated?
- 6) Which audiences should we target for information about promising practices?
- 7) What else do we need to know?
- Discussants
- Richard Greenwald, Manhattan Institute
- Julie Kerksick, New Hope Project
- Phil Tegeler, PRRAC
- Evelyn Blumenberg, UCLA
- Jeff Lubell, Center for Housing Policy
- Marge Turner, Urban Institute
- Barbara Sard, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Demetria McCain, Inclusive Communities Project
- Barbara Samuels, Maryland ACLU
Conclusions and Next Steps
- Margy Waller, Inclusion
- Phil Tegeler, PRRAC
Background Reading
To Move or Not to Move: Relationships to Place and Relocation Choices in HOPE VI
West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington
HUD’s FSS Program – A Promising Alternative Vehicle for Helping Low-Income Families Build Assets
Jeff Lubell
Bipartisan Housing Legislation Would Build on Housing Voucher Program's Success
Barbara Sard
Comparison of Policies Under Current Law and Bipartisan House Section 8 Voucher Reform Act
Barbara Sard
Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program
Phil Tegeler
Social Inclusion for the United States
Margy Waller, Heather Boushey, Natalie Branosky, Shawn Fremstad, and Rachel Gragg