Strategies That Enhance Community Relations in the Tenant-Based Housing Choice Voucher Programs (March 2001, 108 p.)
The goal of the study was to
provide HUD with a thorough understanding of the conditions that precipitate local
opposition to the Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP—in this publication, the term
“HCVP” is used to describe the concept historically described as “Section 8”) and the
strategies that are effective in mitigating potential or real conflicts. A team of senior housing
professionals with extensive HCVP experience was assembled to research eight situations
around the country where communities have faced local opposition to tenant-based HCVPs.
This research offers some valuable lessons regarding the conditions that precipitate HCVP
conflicts and the strategies that are effective in mitigating them. Although the number of
study sites was limited, the data collected provide a good illustration of the kinds of
neighborhoods that may be vulnerable to HCVP controversy; the kinds of issues over which
controversy can arise; common housing authority reactions to community opposition; and
effective approaches to improving community relations over the long-term.
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