With federal housing vouchers and ancillary services, housing mobility helps families trapped in areas of urban poverty relocate to places of opportunity.  By moving to neighborhoods with better employment opportunities, improved schools and safer environments, famlies can improve their life chances.

BPI works on housing mobility because it is one of the best tools for reducing concentrated urban poverty and affording justice to those trapped within it.  Together with others, BPI is creating a new national housing mobility program stemming from the successful Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program.  The idea sprang from a proposal in a recently published book by BPI's Alexander Polikoff, Waiting for Gautreaux:  A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto (Northwestern University Press, 2006).

 

More information on Housing Mobility:

• Housing Mobility Programs
• Taking Housing Mobility National
• Housing Mobility Publications and Resources