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

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VouchersVoucher type tracts are dominant with three clusters (cluster 1, 2 and 3)making up 40,648 census tracts or 79.5 percent <strong>of</strong> all census tracts in MSA’s. <strong>The</strong>reare 911,814 subsidized housing units in these three clusters (22.6 percent <strong>of</strong> allsubsidized units). Vouchers are also present in site-based clusters but they do so atrelatively low levels ranging from an average <strong>of</strong> 27 to 53 vouchers per census tractdepending on the other subsidy type. For the most part the data support the contentionthat vouchers are highly decentralized, tend not to co-locate with site-based units andreach a large number <strong>of</strong> neighborhoods. Cluster 2 includes a few more site-basedunits indicating that this type <strong>of</strong> small-scale site-based development is possibleresulting in low levels <strong>of</strong> concentration. It would be interesting to study theseneighborhoods further as potential low-concentration, low-poverty developmentmodels.Cluster 3 which is also a voucher type cluster was unexpected with a fairlyhigh rate <strong>of</strong> poverty that is more like the highly concentrated site-based clusters. Thisindicates a concentration effect that takes place at even a moderate scale (135subsidized units per tract).Vouchers are also present in cluster 8 where the tracts have become highlyconcentrated with LIHTC units, vouchers and other site-based units. It is not clearfrom the data whether LIHTC projects are located in areas that already have a high102

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