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

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Author Date Data GeographyHolloway,Bryan, Chabot,Rogers and Rulli 1998Briggs, Dardenand Aidala 19991980-19901985-1996McNulty andHolloway 2000 1990Columbus,OH MSAYonkers,NYType <strong>of</strong>ProgramPublic housingPublic <strong>Housing</strong>(scattered siteonly)OutcomeMeasures Method FindingsChange inneighborhoodpovertyProperty valuesadjacent to publichousing sites,homeowner plansto moveCity <strong>of</strong>Atlanta Public housing Crime ratesOLS regression analysis includeshousing market indicatorsincluding density <strong>of</strong> publichousing and net migration.Hedonic price regressionmeasured by change in saleprices over a decade adjacent tothe public housing sites. Phonesurvey <strong>of</strong> homeowners nearscattered site public housing.Heuristic model <strong>of</strong>neighborhood change that linksfinancial and sociopsychologicalinvestments byresidents on neighborhoodvitality.Weighted least squaresregression conducted separatelyfor different types <strong>of</strong> crimeincluding the distance to publichousing sites.Public housing concentrated poverty byattracting individuals most vulnerable toeconomic hardship and weakening theneighborhood housing market. Distancefrom subsidized housing also had a strongeffect. Public housing had an effect onblacks that is double that <strong>of</strong> whites. (p. 12)Older public housing concentrates morethan more than recent construction.Sale prices were sensitive to specificneighborhoods and not whether there wasscattered site public housing. <strong>The</strong>re was noevidence <strong>of</strong> "white flight" or neighborhoodtipping. Homeowners surrounding thepublic housing sites were comparable tohomeowners not located near the sites.<strong>The</strong>y were just as likely to be satisfied withtheir residential environment and just aslikely to be unhappy about other factors,such as high taxes.Being located close to subsidized housing inthe city has a significant effect on severaltypes <strong>of</strong> crime holding all other variablessuch as race and income constant.186

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