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Rooms for Improvement: A Qualitative Metasynthesis of the Housing Choice Voucher Program

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This article synthesizes housing subsidy voucher research to explain why, when in theory vouchers enable users to move out of poor neighborhoods, in practice they often do not. This qualitative meta-analysis presents an examination of the assumptions of the program and their relationship to empirical findings.Two themes emerged from this synthesis: market barriers and product problems. Data from a variety of studies and contexts portray recipients struggling to use vouchers in the private rental market due to market barriers, including lack of public transportation and the presence of discrimination. Product problems constrained freedom of choice about where to move and when to make a housing transition. These constraints manifest as compromised housing quality and low voucher utilization. This synthetic view cannot account for all outcomes or exceptional cases, but results suggest where participant experiences are generalizable and attributable to features of the housing market and structure of the program itself.

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  • Erin Graves, 2016. "Rooms for Improvement: A Qualitative Metasynthesis of the Housing Choice Voucher Program," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(2), pages 346-361, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:26:y:2016:i:2:p:346-361
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2015.1072573
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