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Interim Reports of Ongoing Research Projects
The Family Options Study
The Family Options Study earlier known as The Impact of Housing and Services Interventions on Homeless Families, is an experimental study of family homelessness that is being funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Between September 2010 and January 2012, 2,307 homeless families across twelve sites enrolled into the study and were randomly assigned to one of four interventions: 1) project-based transitional housing, 2) community-based rapid re-housing, 3) subsidy only, or 4) usual care. Families were interviewed at baseline (entry/random assignment), are being tracked for 18 months after intervention, and will be interviewed again 18 months after random assignment. The follow-up survey period will begin in June 2012.
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Rental Assistance Demonstration Evaluation
On September 21, 2016, HUD published an interim report that summarizes preliminary findings about the Rental Assistance Demonstration program's achievements to date. The final report of the ongoing evaluation is expected in December, 2018.
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Assessment of Native American Housing Needs
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research is managing a Congressionally mandated study of the housing needs of Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. The study is underway and the final report is expected in December 2014.
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Study of PHAs’ Efforts to Serve People Experiencing Homelessness
The use of mainstream housing assistance
programs will be essential if the nation is to
achieve the goals of the 2010 Federal Strategic
Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness,
including ending chronic homelessness
by 2015 and ending homelessness for
families, youth, and children by 2020.
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Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Project
Senate report language accompanying HUD’s 2009 Appropriation directed the Secretary to "conduct an evaluation of the housing models that are most effective in preventing and ending homelessness for youth aged 16-24." HUD has chosen to focus this research effort on the housing needs of the nearly 30,000 youth who "age out" of the foster care system each year.
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Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Evaluation
To address homelessness among veterans, particularly those re-entering civilian society after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, Congress directed the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, and Labor to create the Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration (VHPD). The VHPD Evaluation is a study of the implementation and impacts of the VHPD. Through its focus on both homelessness prevention and veterans, the evaluation makes an important contribution to research. Existing studies of homelessness prevention do not illuminate the special character of programs needed to reach veterans effectively, while studies of homelessness among veterans have not yet investigated prevention and rapid rehousing interventions.
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Choice Neighborhoods Evaluation Report
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) is managing a study of Choice Neighborhoods (Choice), a new program to support the redevelopment of distressed assisted housing projects and transformation of the neighborhoods surrounding them into mixed-income, high-opportunity places. The study focuses on the first five recipients of Choice implementation grants: the Quincy Corridor neighborhood in Boston, the Woodlawn neighborhood in Chicago, the Iberville/Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, the Eastern Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, and the Yesler neighborhood in Seattle.
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