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

is sufficiently high to undertake efforts to reduce the level of poverty by avoidingsiting of any new subsidized units or use of vouchers.The highest concentration version is co-located with public housing and thecombination of two subsidy types that create the extensive concentration and very highrate of poverty. These neighborhoods need extensive deconcentration and relocationefforts that take into account the multiple subsidy types in the neighborhoods as wellas to restrict any additional subsidized housing construction or use of vouchers.Voucher-type tracts account for two-thirds of all census tracts in MSA’s. Veryfew site-based units are located in these neighborhoods and the result is that they are atvery low or low levels of concentration and poverty. Vouchers are also present in sitebasedclusters but they do so at relatively low levels. For the most part the datasupport the contention that vouchers are highly decentralized and reach a significantnumber of census tracts. There are two exceptions.The first is that a voucher cluster was identified that has a only a moderateconcentration of vouchers but a relatively high rate of poverty at a rate that is more likesite-based housing clusters. These neighborhoods should be studied further to identifywhy they are concentrated and how to avoid further concentration.A second exception is the neighborhood type where LIHTC and vouchers areco-located in about equal numbers. Given the high level of site-based projects in thesecensus tracts the rate of poverty is lower than expected but is sufficiently high to123