1. FSS: HUD’s (Top Secret) Car Ownership Program
Jeff Lubell, Project Director, FSS Partnerships

2. Family Self-Sufficiency program
Goals:
economic self-sufficiency
asset-building
73,000 FSS participants in 1,000+ programs
Asset accumulation
Median asset accumulation (grads):$3,351
No limitation on use of escrow
Car ownership and repair one of the principal uses of escrows (especially interim withdrawals)

3. Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS)
HUD
Funding
HUD
Funding

4. Source: HUD Evaluation of FSS (2005)

5. Increasing Access to Cars
Expand size of local FSS programs
Build partnerships between housing agencies and agencies that can supply work-promoting case-management
Support more stable FSS funding
New America Foundation paper
Strengthen links between FSS and car ownership programs