Peter Hepburn

Since enactment in 2012, the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program has moved one in every five units of public housing out of the traditional public housing system and into other subsidy streams. While approaches to rental housing assistance in the past several decades have focused on strategies aimed at poverty deconcentration and dispersal, RAD entails place-based investment and attempts to keep communities intact. Hepburn will analyze the implementation of RAD and its effects on public housing residents, their communities, and the broader ecosystem of affordable housing development.