The CHA Mobility Counseling Program Administered by CHAC

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The CHA Mobility Counseling Program Administered
by CHAC

• Encouraging moves to opportunity neighborhoods
  and helping families make informed choices

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Program Overview

• Serves Housing Choice Voucher transfers (referred
  to as second movers)
• Income-based
• Opportunity Neighborhood defined as Low Poverty
  - less than 24 poverty rate
• Voluntary
• Focus on High to Low Poverty Moves

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Program Components

• Landlord Outreach
• Assessment Enrollment (including credit check
  credit counseling)
• Fair Housing Training Complaint Assistance
• Assist Participant to Remove Barriers / Prepare
  for Landlord Acceptance

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Program Components - cont.

• Housing Search Assistance and Referrals
  (including transportation)
• Mandatory Workshops (Money Management
  Tenant/Landlord Rights Responsibilities)
• Voluntary Workshops
• Post-Move Counseling
• Link to Family Self-Sufficiency Program
• Resource Room

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Additional Benefits

• Security Deposit Loan Fund
• Services for People with Disabilities
• Transportation for Housing Search
• Grants for Unit Modifications

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Families Served

• January 1999 through June 2002
• Enrolled 7,540 families
• Leased 3,724
• Leased in Low Poverty 2,388 (64 )
• Moves from High to Low Poverty 1,215 (33 )

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Moves From High to Low Poverty
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Retention - Year 2000 High to Low Poverty Movers
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Does Mobility Counseling Make a Difference?

• Years 2000 and 2001
• Percent of Counseled families that moved to low
  poverty 52
• Percent of families NOT counseled that moved to
  low poverty 39

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Relocatees Making 2nd Moves

• 1,178 Relocatees made a 2nd Move during
  2000-2001
• 406 (35) of these families moved to Low Poverty
  neighborhoods.

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When Relocatees are Counseled

• Of Relocatee Second Movers, in 2000 and 2001
• 41 of Counseled Families Moved to Low Poverty
• 31 of Families NOT Counseled Moved to Low Poverty

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Challenges

• 1990 - 2000 Census Data
• Focus on families living in high poverty
• Back-filling units in high poverty neighborhoods