Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program: Outcomes Assessed

Outcomes Assessed

Family and relationship outcomes

  • Violence in family or other relationships (child abuse and neglect)
  • Parent-child interactions
  • Family formation and stability/Living arrangements
  • Family and relationship outcomes - misc.

Income security

  • Earnings
  • Food stamps receipt
  • Welfare receipt
  • Income security - misc.
  • Overall income

Adult outcomes

  • Emotional well-being
  • Health/ physical well-being (including prenatal health)
  • Social functioning/social relationships
  • Adult outcomes - misc.

Housing

  • Residential mobility
  • Homelessness
  • Housing - misc.
  • Home ownership

Attitudes towards work, welfare, and program

  • Attitudes towards work, welfare, and program - misc.

Standard of living

  • Standard of living - misc.

Service utilization

  • Service utilization - misc.

Program implementation

  • Program Implementation - misc.
  • Capacity of management systems to meet priorities

Financial costs and benefits/cost-effectiveness

  • Financial costs and benefits/cost-effectiveness - misc.

Employment

  • Employment - misc.

Education

  • Education - misc.

Community Outcomes

  • Community economic development (e.g. labor market outcomes)
  • Community interpersonal relationships (“neighborhood effects”)
  • Community poverty rates
  • Community safety (e.g. crime rates and/or general perceptions of safety)
  • Distribution of community services (equity)
  • Reaction of low-poverty neighborhoods to entry of high-poverty voucher recipients

Child Outcomes

  • Child social/emotional/behavioral outcomes
  • Child cognitive (attention, problem solving, memory, language, and vocabulary) outcomes
  • Child academic outcomes
  • Child overall development
  • Child mental/physical health outcomes
  • Child outcomes - misc.