Second Quarter Company Newsletter
April 1, 2008
Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Words
By Linje Boston
Cities like Atlanta, New Orleans, and Chicago are restructuring the way public housing assistance is conducted. The Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA), in particular, is recognized nationally as being the leader in implementing the move away from traditional public housing towards mixed-income communities and housing vouchers. Who knew that such a simple question - are families better off as a result of these programs - would require a fairly complicated approach. There are two major challenges embedded within this question: measuring the quality of neighborhoods where families live, and tracking the self-sufficiency status of families over time. Earlier we developed the CAI to address the first of these two challenges, now let’s describe how we deal with the second.
