Resources - Guaranteed Income Community of Practice

Mother & Infant Cash Coalition

Public Funding Vehicles for Perinatal Cash Transfers

Public Funding Streams Two-Pager: a quick-reference guide to the public funding sources (e.g., TANF, Medicaid, Title V, and others) that programs can tap into to scale and sustain their work.

Mother & Infant Cash Coalition

Public/Private Partnerships as a Bridge to Scale

Public-Private Partnership Report: a deeper look at how public and private funding can be braided together to scale and sustain perinatal cash transfer programs and the best strategies for accessing…

Economic Security Project

Right on Time: How Cash Helps Families Move Through Life’s Transitions

Cash matters most during transitions, when income is unstable, choices narrow, and small setbacks can cascade into lasting harm.

Economic Security Project

Putting Cash in Parents’ Pockets: An Executive Action Plan for the Next Presidential Administration

Four executive actions to deliver guaranteed cash to families with young children, without waiting for Congress.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Increasing Families’ Incomes Helps Meet Children’s Needs and Reduces Child Welfare Involvement

CBPP Policy Brief by Victoria Hunter Gibney and Urvi Patel April 2026

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Income Support Helps Families Meet Children’s Needs and Reduces Child Welfare Involvement

CBPP Research Report by Victoria Hunter Gibney and Urvi Patel July 2026

Housing Policy Debate

Expanding Access to Rental Assistance: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go From Here?

Research has shown that rental assistance is a powerful tool for addressing housing cost burden, instability, and other housing and non-housing outcomes. Rental subsidies can also be leveraged to increase…

Economic Security Project

Building Affordability: The Policy Agenda for America’s Housing Crisis

America’s housing crisis is the product of both broken markets — where restrictive zoning, underinvestment in public housing, and stagnant construction productivity have created a shortage of millions of homes…

The NYU Furman Center's Housing Solutions Lab

Cash assistance for housing: Debates, emerging evidence, and open questions

This paper from the NYU Furman Center’s Housing Solutions Lab explores the role of direct cash transfers in increasing housing access, with the goals of clarifying the state of research…

Housing Initiative at Penn

The Future of Rental Assistance: Lessons Learned from Implementing and Evaluating a Direct-toTenant Cash Assistance Program, PHLHousing+

This article examines a new rental assistance program in Philadelphia, called PHLHousing+, that disburses unconditional cash payments directly to tenants to eliminate their housing cost burden. The program is designed…

PHLHousing+

PHLHousing+ Research Documentation – Sample Wave Survey

Documentation of a sample wave survey used in the PHLHousing+ pilot in Philadelphia.

PHLHousing+

PHLHousing+ Research Documentation – Interview Protocols

A full documentation of the interview protocols used by the evaluation team on the PHLHousing+ pilot in Philadelphia.