For decades, politicians have struggled to make educational opportunity more widely avail able and less tied to where a child's parents can afford to live. The reviewed Bellwether Education Partners' recent report attempts to examine the availability of low-income rental units in school districts to understand whether districts in the largest 200 metropolitan areas are accessible to families in poverty. While the report's focus on the intersection of housing and education policy for students' opportunities is commendable, it suffers from significant methodological shortcomings. These concerns and others severely limit the report's utility for informing social policy.
