A new study of public housing agencies in Seattle found that implementing a few additional low-cost services can enable Section 8 vouchers to work more effectively as a pathway to opportunity. Fourteen percent of control group families who received just a voucher moved to high-opportunity neighborhoods over a yearlong period, but 54 percent of families participating in the trial moved. “We’re learning that there’s something that can be done, and the status quo doesn’t have to curtail these families’ freedom,” said Christopher Palmer, assistant professor of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.