By Spencer Wells, Nonprofit Quarterly
New Orleans’s Times-Picayune reports on a new study showing that housing choice voucher tenants, displaced from New Orleans public housing developments, are ending up clustered in surrounding neighborhoods. “The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, a housing advocacy group, released a report on [January 21st, 2016] that said all-too-often households receiving housing vouchers are concentrated in ‘a small number of census tracts” far from jobs, services and good public transportation.’” The story reflects on the unintended consequences arising from the new “rental boom” and the persistence of “source of income” discrimination.
