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The Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration was launched in 1996 to test different approaches for helping families with children make progress toward self-sufficiency and improving efficiency in the public housing and Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher programs. As the Urban Institute concluded in its evaluation, however, the lack of attention to research objectives in designing the demonstration and “the lack of consistent data on resident characteristics, incomes, and rent payments” have meant that “there is no way to determine with certainty whether individual programs have achieved the goal of work and self-sufficiency.” HUD’s Inspector General similarly concluded that insufficient data had been collected to determine whether the various goals of the demonstration had been me