In 2014, Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) began a partnership to help housing-insecure students. Funded through the U.S. Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) Moving to Work program, the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP) provided housing choice vouchers to subsidize rent for homeless and near-homeless TCC students. On average, that subsidy gave students a $450 discount in an area where the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment was $1,000. Through TCC, program participants also received some support services, such as help navigating other social service programs. How did CHAP work? That’s the focus of a seven-year study by non-profit Education Northwest. Researchers evaluated six cohorts – 422 students – who applied for the program between Fall 2017 and Spring 2019.