This best practice is an example of a program designed to enhance mobility for disadvantaged families by offering targeted housing vouchers and mobility services to low income families who wish to move from high poverty to low poverty communities in the Baltimore region.
The program was developed in response to recognition of the government’s role in creating deeply segregated housing markets in the Baltimore area, which deprive low-income African American families of the same level of opportunity available to whites.
The program is designed for current and former public housing families and families on waiting lists for public housing or Housing Choice. Applicants are counseled throughout the preparation, application, moving, and post-move stages of moving to a new community.
Participation is voluntary and has resulted in improvements in the quality of life for many of the over 1500 participating families.
See: Lora Engdahl, New Homes, New Neighborhoods, New Schools: A Progress Report on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program (Oct. 2009), to access click below:
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