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_____ Housing Choice Voucher Mapping Project The Seattle Housing Authority's (SHA) Housing Choice Voucher program currently provides rent subsidies to approximately 8,000 families. A goal of the voucher program is to expand the neighborhood options available to low income families, and encourage de-concentration of poverty. SHA would like to know more about the location outcomes of Housing Choice Voucher recipients in Seattle. Specifically, SHA would like to map the pre- and post voucher neighborhood (census tract or zip code) locations of current voucher recipients, in order to identify: 1) whether participants are clustered into the same neighborhoods or parts of the city; 2) whether participants changed neighborhoods after they received a voucher; 3) the socioeconomic characteristics of and pre-and post voucher neighborhoods; and 4) whether location patterns vary for different groups of program participants. SHA will provide the pre- and post-voucher addresses for a sample of current (2008) voucher participants. The project would involve geo-coding the voucher addresses, analyzing the characteristics of voucher neighborhoods using census or other publicly-available tract- or zip code-level data, and providing GIS maps of voucher location patterns. The researcher would be expected to acquire the census or other neighborhood characteristics data. SHA is offering a $500 stipend for the project. Specific deliverables are: * A dataset containing the geocoded HCV household data and neighborhood characteristics for each household (from 2000 Census or other administrative data for Seattle). * Maps of pre- and post voucher location outcomes and electronic copies of the ArcGIS files. * A written summary of major findings (i.e., patterns of location outcomes and variations in outcomes by race/ethnicity, income, household composition, etc.) * A presentation of the major findings to SHA staff. Please contact Martha Galvez, SHA Senior Policy Analyst, at (206) 239-1650 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] for additional information. Please include a resume and brief summary of qualifications.
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