UN CO RR EC TE D PR OO F 3 Mobility of Section 8 families in 4 Alameda County q 5

12 During the early 1990s, Section 8 vouchers were touted by the US Department of 13 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as the way to provide greater housing 14 choice for the poor while also deconcentrating them. Toward the end of the 1990s, 15 however, evidence mounted that the voucher system was not deconcentrating the 16 poor. In response, HUD developed a set of five major demonstration programs that 17 supplemented the vouchers with various arrays of social services. While waiting for 18 results of these programs to return, HUD discovered that Section 8 participants in 19 local housing authorities in Alameda County, California, were experiencing an unex20 pected amount of interjurisdictional mobility toward suburban locations. Using a lo21 cal database of 16,951 Section 8 families and both logit and multinomial logit 22 analysis, this paper presents a cursory examination into the motivations of their sub23 urban mobility. 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.