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The profile of households receiving rental assistance has changed over time, yet much of the policy and political dialogue surrounding rental assistance has not. Understanding the changing profile of subsidized households is important to evaluating the role of rental subsidies, particularly in the context of neighborhood access. This paper analyzes how the composition of subsidized households has changed over time, and how this relates to existing measures of neighborhood opportunity. We find that since 2000, the share of subsidized households headed by seniors grew, while the share with children dropped. In particular, households using vouchers used to be young relative to the general population and to households in other housing subsidy programs but have aged rapidly. We also find that current neighborhood amenity measures do not reflect these changes, and we use a national analysis and a case study of southeastern Pennsylvania to test alternative metrics.

Chapter 1. The long history of unfair housing / Francesca Russello Ammon and Wendell E. Pritchett -- Chapter 2. Sociology, segregation, and the Fair Housing Act / Justin P. Steil and Camille Z. Charles -- Chapter 3. Parallel pathways of reform : fair public schooling and housing for black citizens / Akira Drake Rodriguez and Rand Quinn -- Chapter 4. The economic importance of fair housing / Vincent J. Reina and Raphael Bostic -- Chapter 5. The Fair Housing Act's original sin : administrative discretion and the persistence of segregation / Nestor M. Davidson and Eduardo M. Peñalver -- Chapter 6. A queer and intersectional approach to fair housing / Amy Hillier and Devin Michelle Bunten.

"In 2000, the MacArthur Foundation began the Window of Opportunity initiative, a 20-year, $187 million project intended to help preserve privately owned affordable rental housing. The authors of this report assess whether the initiative achieved its goals and identify lessons learned about effective preservation practices. In doing so, they also provide a summary of the evolution of practices in preserving affordable rental housing, discuss challenges and opportunities for preservation going forward, and identify lessons learned that may help other philanthropies in their own philanthropic initiatives, even if they do not pertain to housing. The authors find that the MacArthur Foundation met most of its goals for Window of Opportunity. As the initiative nears its end, large nonprofit preservation developers/owners have greater financial capacity and reputation, there are more resources and vehicles for preservation, and, to a lesser degree, the policy environment has changed to the benefit of preservation. However, Window of Opportunity has not achieved its most ambitious federal policy goals and is likely to fall short of its target for the number of privately owned affordable rental housing that will be preserved." - Back cover

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Long History of Unfair Housing -- Chapter 2. Sociology, Segregation, and the Fair Housing Act -- Chapter 3. Parallel Pathways of Reform: Fair Public Schooling -- Chapter 4. The Economic Importance of Fair Housing -- Chapter 5. The Fair Housing Act's Original Sin: Administrative Discretion and the Per sis tence of Segregation -- Chapter 6. A Queer and Intersectional Approach to Fair Housing -- List of Contributors -- Index