What Do We Know About Housing Choice Voucher Program Location Outcomes?

Nationwide, the Housing Choice Voucher Program serves nearly 2 million low-income households mostly in urban areas. From the Urban Institute, this review of the literature explores the evidence on neighborhood location outcomes for people receiving vouchers. Voucher recipients do not experience high poverty rate, but there are disparities by race/ethnicity as neighborhood quality is lower for nonwhite households compared to whites.