A new regional housing mobility pilot program in New York State addresses residential segregation caused by unequal access to neighborhoods based on race and income. The pilot, located at three sites in New York –Buffalo, Long Island and New York City –provides greater neighborhood choice for families in the federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. Program planning and design began in 2019, the pilot was operational by the summer of 2020, and the first families moved in October of that year. Enterprise Community Partners and Mobility Works provided policy guidance and technical assistance throughout the program’s planning and implementation phases including an assessment of the pilot’s effectiveness at two of the sites –Buffalo and Long Island. This report describes the program learning as the pilot evolved, documents program challenges and achievements and highlights key findings in participant outcomes over the first year of moves.
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