New CURL Study on Expanding Housing Opportunities

In partnership with the Washington DC-based Poverty & Race Research Action Council and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council, the Center for Urban Research and Learning released a national report, Take a Chance on Me: A Review of the Milwaukee County Security Deposit Assistance Program in January 2015. Researched and authored by Loyola sociology professor Peter Rosenblatt and CURL Graduate Fellow Jennifer Cossyleon, the report provides evidence that security deposit incentives do help in encouraging low-income families to move to new mixed-income communities providing greater educational, employment, and quality of life opportunities. This has implications for national policy as well as practices in all U.S. cities.

http://prrac.org/pdf/MilwaukeeCountySecurityDepositStudy.pdf