Barbara Sard
Barbara Sard is vice president for housing policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. She served 18 months as senior advisor on rental assistance to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. She previously held the director’s position at CBPP between 1997 and 2009.
Vouchers Are Helping Children Avoid Concentrated Poverty
More than 5 million people in some 2 million low-income families use Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) to help them afford decent housing. Although the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program makes little difference in where poor white families with children live, it makes a large difference for poor families of color, as our recent paper explains. […]
HUD Improves Project-Based Voucher Program But More Remains to Be Done
HUD has recently made some important changes to the rules for its Project-Based Voucher (PBV) program, which helps families live in affordable rental housing.
The...
In Schools, Eliminating Poverty Stigma Could End Child Hunger
More Americans live in high-poverty neighborhoods than ever before, according to a recent Century Foundation report, and many of...
A Boost to Vouchers Would Be a Boost for Kids
More than 5 million people in 2.1 million low-income families use the Housing Choice Voucher program to help pay...
Threat to Low-Income Renters Will Get Worse, Unless Congress Acts
Budget Cuts Threaten Rental Assistance to Families Across the CountryCongress has set a deadline of Dec. 13 to negotiate...
Helping Families Use Vouchers to Move to High-Opportunity Neighborhoods
It is well known that where people live can have a big impact on their life. For children, that can...
Time for a Renters’ Tax Credit
It’s time to rethink the nation’s housing policy. We’ve focused for decades on policies to increase homeownership, and most...
Preserving Safe, High Quality Public Housing Should Be a Federal Priority
A report I recently co-authored for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examines the state of public housing in the United States today...
Credit Where Credit is Due
I wholeheartedly agree with Peter Dreier that housing activists should join with others to support policies that would lift the working poor (and other...
Housing and Welfare Reform
Although welfare and housing assistance systems are designed and administered separately from each other, their beneficiaries overlap to a substantial degree. Especially in the...