By Leila Atassi, Cleveland.com
Central to the Seattle program is the assignment of a “housing navigator” – a kind of case manager – to each voucher recipient to help them research neighborhoods and work with landlords to overcome biases that might have kept them from accepting vouchers in the past.
CMHA officials said, at the time, that they were studying the prospect of launching a similar program in Cleveland. The agency had contracted with the Washington D.C.-based Poverty & Race Research Action Council to study the needs of local voucher holders and identify high-opportunity communities where program participants might choose to settle with the help of mobility counselors, like the ones in Seattle.
