- The author found that on average the voucher holders live near schools that have proficiency rates that are approximately 3 percentage points higher than the schools near public housing residents.
- Voucher holders live closer to lower performing schools than households who live in the low income housing tax credit (LIHTC) developments by approximately one percentage point.
- Comparing voucher households to other poor households reveals that voucher holders live near schools with lower proficiency rates.
- Voucher holders with children live next to schools with a higher percentage of poor students and black students than other poor households with children.
- White voucher holders are living in neighborhoods with schools that have proficiency rates that are on average 8 points higher than those of black voucher children and 6 points higher than those of Hispanic voucher children.
- Poor white children live near schools that have proficiency rates 12 points higher than those of poor black children and 8 points higher than those of poor Hispanic children.