Home Forward Board Packet Updated for July 11 Work Session Agenda; Opening of New Wait List and Alder Elementary (The Dreamer) School Housing Support.

Home Forward YTD Board Packages link HERE in right pane has been updated to include Wednesday July 11 work session. 

Agenda items are:

• Discussion of opening, and procedures for, new wait list.
• Operations Plan update.
• Working with Human Solutions and the school, HF and Multnomah County will provide funding for housing and services for families with children at Alder Elementary "The Dreamer" school. 

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

New Study on Elementary Education Results from Inclusionary Housing Requirement in Montgomery County, MD.

Study is HERE. From the study:

After seven years (the end of elementary school), children in public housing in Montgomery County’s most affluent half of elementary schools performed eight points higher in math .. and five points higher in reading ... than otherwise similar children in public housing who attended schools with greater than 20 percent poverty. Within education research, these are large effects since relatively few educational reforms demonstrate positive effects of this magnitude.
Perhaps most important, the children in public housing who attended low-poverty schools began to catch up to their non-poor district-mates over the course of elementary school; by the end, they had cut their initial achievement gap in half.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.