NEW: Welfare
and Housing? How Can the Housing Assistance Programs Help Welfare Recipients?
(2000) Available online as an Adobe .pdf file (4 megs, or soon as a smaller
version (200k) without the cover photo). You can download a free reader
here.
This
NHLP report reviews the recent changes to the welfare programs and discusses
the impacts that these changes will have on welfare recipients and housing
providers both public and private. It also sets out policies and
programs that housing providers can and should adopt that will help welfare
recipients secure and keep jobs and otherwise assist them in the transition
from welfare to financial self-sufficiency. The report also discusses
actions that advocates should take to encourage housing providers to adopt
policies favorable to very low-income households and their need for stable
and affordable housing.
Housing for All: Keeping the Promise (1995)--A paper setting
out the need for establishing a universal right to housing, the characteristics
of that right and a system for delivering housing for all.
The Family Self-Sufficiency Program: An Advocates Guide (1994)--A
guide to the Family Self Sufficiency Program reviewing the basic structure
of the program, the rights of applicants and participants and development
of a local program that meets the participants’ housing needs.
Lets Choose a New Owner! What residents Need to Know When an Owner
Wants to Sell an Expiring-Use Project Under Title VI (1993) (master
for duplicating)--A booklet for residents, advocates, attorneys and others
seeking to preserve a federally assisted housing development whose owner
is considering sale of the complex to another entity under Title VI. The
pamphlet has relevance outside the Title VI context because it helps residents
focus on the issues that need to be addressed when any owner of a subsidized
project wants to sell the complex.
A Passage From Poverty: Self-Sufficiency Policies and the Housing
Programs (1991)--A review of welfare and housing programs designed
to assist families escape poverty and a call for the better coordination
between the welfare and housing programs so that families participating
in both will have an opportunity to escape poverty.