

The Voucher Promise
"Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood
Author: Eva Rosen
Narrator: Xe Sands
Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 07/14/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Social Science, Sociology
Synopsis
Rosen spent more than a year living in Park Heights, getting to know families and learning about the neighborhood's history. Voucher holders disproportionately end up in this area despite rampant unemployment, drugs, crime, and abandoned housing. Exploring why they are unable to relocate to other neighborhoods, Rosen illustrates the challenges in obtaining vouchers and the difficulties faced by recipients in using them when and where they want to. Yet, despite the program's real shortcomings, she argues that vouchers offer basic stability for families and should remain integral to solutions for the nation's housing crisis.
Delving into the connections between safe, affordable housing and social mobility, The Voucher Promise investigates the profound benefits and formidable obstacles involved in housing America's poor.