From Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
Too often, particularly when it comes to federal programs to help lift up low-income families, the national dialogue focuses more on programs that don’t work and not enough on those that do, but eligible recipients may not know exist. A perfect example is HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency Program (FSS), which helps families in subsidized housing build equity with income that otherwise might have to go exclusively to increased rent. Compass Working Capital is a leader in efforts to make the FSS better known and easier to use, a topic Compass CEO Markita Morris-Louis wrote about recently in a post for the Brookings Institution. Morris-Louis discussed how the FSS could be more widely used recently with Spotlight; the transcript of that conversation, here, has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
