A significant expansion of scale will require a change of national policy rather than intensified local court challenges. Speed of implementation . Peterson and Williams also found that demandside housing mobility programs move poor families into new neighborhoods more quickly than supply-side programs, which are vulnerable to delaying tactics employed by local opposition groups. Delays of ten years and more in public housing initiatives on suburban fair-share plans were not unusual. Most demand-side programs grew out of litigation over housing discrimination.
Program structures can differ significantly, and program success has varied with design features.
For example, the Gautreaux program in Chicago has generated voluminous excess demand for the 450 slots available each year, while a mobility program in Memphis experienced many dropouts and did not utilize all of its court-ordered housing certificates. Significance of counseling. Counseling alone can sometimes enable poor households to move into more desirable neighborhoods by demonstrating options to them that they did not know existed. Counseling is also important when households are making a move into a dramatically new environment that breaches long established local conventions. But in some cities specialized counseling may not be necessary.