Our Impact

Housing Mobility: Mobility Works’ founding member programs—Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership, Housing Choice Partners (Chicago), and Inclusive Communities Project (Dallas)—have helped more than 17,000 families move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods since their inception, demonstrating what well-designed housing mobility programs can achieve.

Expanding Opportunity: Last year alone, at least 1,500 families moved to opportunity areas through housing mobility programs nationwide. This figure is a conservative estimate, as not all programs publicly report outcomes.

A Growing Field: Since Mobility Works began, the number of communities with housing mobility programs has grown more than threefold, reaching 40 communities across the United States and reflecting the expanding adoption of proven mobility strategies.

Mobility Services & Network: Through our annual Training Institute, Mobility Works has trained staff from 60 housing authorities and nonprofits in a few short years, helping build local capacity to design and sustain effective housing mobility programs.

Mobility Works hosts bimonthly Community of Practice Gatherings for our Network, for peer connection and exchange on topics such as landlord engagement and retention, vicarious trauma, and supporting participant leadership, among others. We also provide periodic webinars to educate the Network and broader field, focusing on topics like family engagement and crisis de-escalation, conducting an internal audit, and understanding and communicating your program’s value.

Advocating for Families: In addition to building the knowledge and capacity of housing mobility programs, Mobility Works has coordinated our Network members to advocate on topics such as:

• Federal funding for housing mobility
• Flexible use of HCV administrative fees
• Affirmatively furthering fair housing
• Improvements to the Section Eight Management Assessment Program
• Protecting tools to increase rental housing supply
• Proposed HCV policy changes, including time limits, work requirements and mixed-status families

What has housing mobility looked like for real families? Here are their stories.