Place Matters: A Two-Generation Approach to Housing

With collectively more than 100 years of policy expertise and values-based leadership between us, Ascend at the Aspen Institute and the Housing Opportunity and Services Together initiative at the Urban Institute partnered to develop a set of recommendations on how to harness assisted housing and public-private housing partnerships for better outcomes for families. By Dr. Susan Popkin, director of the Urban Institute’s HOST Initiative and Institute Fellow in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center; Elsa Falkenburger, MPA, senior research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute; and Sarah Haight, MSW, assistant director for network and outreach at Ascend. (December 2018)