Stoneleigh Fellow Vincent Reina discusses the early findings from the ongoing study of the PHLHousing+ program.
What happens when you give small monthly cash payments to low-income tenants in unstable housing situations?
For one thing, you dramatically reduce their chances of getting evicted or experiencing homelessness. That’s according to the first findings from a two-and-a-half-year study of a cash-assistance program in Philadelphia from a team of researchers led by Sara Jaffee, Class of 1965 Term Professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, and Vincent Reina, a professor and associate chair in the Department of City and Regional Planning in Penn’s Weitzman School of Design.
