An in-depth look at America's largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of residents in one low-income Baltimore neighborhoodHousing vouchers are a cornerstone of US federal housing policy, offering aid to more than two million households. Vouchers are meant to provide the poor with increased choice in the private rental mar "The Voucher Promise provides an informative, in-depth, and necessary look into the policy and practice of the HCV program clearly identifying a need to reassess the way it currently operates. . . . [A]n essential read for policymakers, urban sociologists, and scholars."---Jeanne Kimpel, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity