Eva Rosen is assistant professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC. Twitter @eva_rosen
"Winner of the Paul Davidoff Book Award, Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning"
"Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and
Social Mobility Section of the American Sociological
Association"
"An engaging read. Most compellingly, Rosen offers a moving
psychological portrait of her interlocutors, revealing how people
cope with neighborhood change and reconcile limited opportunities
and chronic disappointments."---Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader
"Rosen’s ethnographic study helps to correct a weak point in the
literature on the HCV program. . . . The Voucher Promise provides a
look at the HCV program from many perspectives including the
participating voucher households and the renter households not
lucky enough to receive a voucher. The book studies the landlords
who choose to participate as well as those who do not. Finally, the
book explores the households, especially long-term homeowners, who
populate the neighborhoods where the HCV voucher households locate.
This mix of perspectives is the strength of the book."---Kirk
McClure, Social Forces
"This work, although a valuable contribution to the sociology
literature, is also an important book for urban planners and policy
scholars and practitioners. Rosen has managed the difficult task of
creating rigorous research that is highly critical of an important
federal program but at the same time recognized how vital the
program is to the lives of so many economically fragile families. .
. . a must read for anyone interested in housing markets and
housing policy. It is refreshingly well written and at the same
time highly substantive."---Dan Immergluck, Journal of the American
Planning Association
"A fine study with important insights for scholars and
practitioners, regardless of their disciplinary leanings. Readers
may find themselves comparing [The Voucher Promise] favorably to
the highly acclaimed Evicted: Poverty and Poverty in the American
City by Matthew Desmond."---Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Planning
Education and Research
"[Rosen] bring[s] to the table workable and much needed suggestions
for changes to a flawed policy."---Lisa Lucile Owens, Critical
Sociology
"The Voucher Promise provides an informative, in-depth, and
necessary look into the policy and practice of the HCV program
clearly identifying a need to reassess the way it currently
operates. . . . [A]n essential read for policymakers, urban
sociologists, and scholars."---Jeanne Kimpel, Sociology of Race and
Ethnicity
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