The Spatial Concentration of Subsidized Housing - Poverty & Race ...

alter the perception of public housing as only urban and highly concentrated. It couldbe helpful to study these small scale site-based public housing developments forpossible replication purposes.Other Site-Based Subsidized HousingOther site-based subsidized housing is a subsidy type that has not beenextensively studied in the past. As with public housing clusters, these tracts are eithermoderately or highly concentrated and the difference between the types depends on theco-location with public housing. The results show that there are three clusters inwhich these units primarily occur. In two clusters the other-site based units are theprimary subsidy type (clusters 5 and 7) and in cluster 9 other site-based units are colocatedwith public housing units creating the highest level of concentration of allcluster types and comprising two-thirds of all subsidized housing units in MSA’s.The picture for other site-based units is mixed. For the most part othersubsidized housing units are deconcentrated in small scale projects without co-locationof other subsidy types. At the same time, a significant number of these units are colocatedwith public housing in some of the most concentrated census tracts. Theconcern over concentration that has been focused on public housing should beextended to the other subsidized housing located in the same census tracts as publichousing.100