Masters Thesis

The impact of the Housing Choice Voucher Program on Education, Crime, and Health.

Every month, more and more Americans across the nation surrender colossal amounts of rent, consuming more than half of their incomes. The housing crisis has increased across time, and without the proper intervention it will ultimately "snowball" into a direr and more devastating situation. Generally, the American housing sector is not a division of national pride, because its brokenness and failure to provide acceptable living conditions to many inhabitants is almost nonexistent. What is even more alarming, is that there appears to be no alleviation in policies that can counter this crisis. On the contrary, rents are rising and are ever more exhausting the average citizen's financial sanity. As more private developments take place, more families are shoved from their homes to face rents too massive to meet. The lack of an acceptable housing system affects people in countless ways. This paper seeks to explore The Housing Choice Voucher Program and its relationship with recipient's quality of life within mobilization. This study will use a variety of research design approaches, to explore this program's effect and impact on education, crime, and health. In conjunction with secondary data, a simple random sample of the nation's voucher recipients will be accessed via a survey instrument. By the operationalizing of crime, health, and education, the data should reveal if a positive correlation exists among these elements under scrutiny.

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