The Urban Institute recently released a report co-authored by ITS affiliates Evelyn Blumenberg (Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Urban Planning), Michael Smart (Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and former Lewis Center Post-Doctoral Researcher), and Gregory Pierce (Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning).

The report, Driving to Opportunity: Understanding the Links among Transportation Access, Residential Outcomes, and Economic Opportunity for Housing Voucher Recipients examines differences in residential location and employment outcomes between voucher recipients with access to automobiles and those without. Overall, the findings underscore the positive role of automobiles in outcomes for housing voucher participants.

The principal investigator of the study, Rolf Pendall, Director of the Metropolitan Housing & Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute, worked with Professor Blumenberg and her ITS colleagues on the project, which has received attention in The Washington Post andThe Atlantic Cities. For more information, click here.