Hmm... the main thing of interest I saw here was mention of the voucher program offering mobility. I'm not sure that's 100% true. Granted of course state housing might tie them down even more. What I'm trying to say is that the ideal of home ownership works in much the same way. People can't just up and move to follow work because they often have so much invested in their home. They're willing to take lower wages if it means not abandoning their investment and eventually end up in far worse shape than they would have if they could just leave at will (oh yeah, and why do businesses seem to uproot and relocate like clockwork? Or is that just a west coast thing?)
Anyway, even those on vouchers are not necessarily willing to up and leave the place they've always known even if all industry disappears (as it has pretty much everywhere; how many states hope, pray, and bribe substantially for Kia factories these days?). Add to that the cost of moving and the general glut of labor on the market and we're all stuck where we are.
Again, I have plenty of crazy ideas that probably have me on watch lists, but whatever. Maybe seize foreclosed properties to pay for TARP and sell them at substantially reduced rates to people of low income (rather than to rich people with the cash on hand who will rent them out for substantial profit; oh and then sell them to poor schmucks again in the next boom cycle right before the inevitable bust). If working people can live rent-free (in a reasonable amount of time, not 30+ years) they'll spend more in the local economy, care more about their neighborhoods, and generally improve the world. That's redistrubition of wealth though and everyone is opposed to it, espeically the dirt-poor.
Whatever. This country makes no sense. We're sticking with our economic model despite the obvious problems. We're going to sink like the Soviet Union which stuck to its economic model despite the obvious problems. Like the Soviet model, ours is turning into a religion (and Ron Paul is their messiah; sad). That's a little beyond the scope of this issue, though...