HUD Posts Family Self Sufficiency Study.

It's HERE. 

Quick summary, and plan for two additional studies: 

This study finds that the financial benefits are substantial for participants who remain in and graduate from the FSS program.The study also highlights certain personal and program characteristics that tend to make families more successful in FSS. (For example, those with higher levels of education at enrollment did better.) These findings suggest approaches that program administrators can take to target FSS services more effectively.The Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) will launch two additional FSS-related efforts in fiscal year 2011. The first effort will examine whether study participants who were still enrolled when the prospective study ended went on to graduate from the FSS program and whether they met their goals for financial self- sufficiency. The second effort will launch the third installment of the evaluations of FSS evaluation, The Family Self-Sufficiency Program Demonstration.This random assignment demonstration is designed to evaluate whether the benefits that FSS program participants enjoy (examples include income gain, savings, educational attainment, and economic improvement) can,with certainty, be attributed to the effectiveness of the FSS program.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.