The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in January 2025, published an RCT of HUD’s $140 million/year Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, which provides case management services and financial incentives to housing voucher recipients to promote work and self-sufficiency. This large, high quality RCT found no discernible impacts on employment or earnings over 6 years.
An RCT of a cash transfer program for individuals experiencing homelessness, published in the August 2023 Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS), portrays its results as positive despite finding no discernible impact on any of the study’s pre-registered primary or secondary outcomes.
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