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

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Carlson,Haveman,Kaplan andWolfe 2008Kingsley andPettit 20082000-20031994-2002State <strong>of</strong>Wisconsin5 MSA's:Baltimore,Boston,Chicago,Los Angeles,and NewYorkVouchersVouchersNeighborhoodquality at theblock group level<strong>Poverty</strong>, race, andviolent crime atthe census tractlevelUses a quasi-experimentalresearch design with propensityscore matching which comparesvoucher users with matchedpairs <strong>of</strong> households that did notreceive vouchers. Measures theimpact on employment andearnings, and neighborhoodquality.Descriptive statistics onneighborhood poverty, race,crime and change inneighborhood poverty rate overtime (improved, stable,worsened).Voucher receipt was found to have no effecton neighborhood quality initially, but overthe longer term resulted in moves to betterneighborhood. Initial reduction in earningsalso were found to dissipate over time.Two-thirds <strong>of</strong> the initial movers had made aone or more subsequent moves. <strong>The</strong>average neighborhood poverty rate for MTOparticipants was 24% up from 13% in theinitial move and the average minority sharewas 79% up from 68%. Regular Section 8movers did not experience this change inneighborhood characteristics. 43% <strong>of</strong>MTO movers moved to "worsening"neighborhoods and almost none (1%)moved to "improving" neighborhoods.Gray and Tursky 1986Lyons andLoveridge 19931977-1978 10 MSA'searly1990'sRamseyCounty, MNPublic<strong>Housing</strong>,Section 8 sitebased,Section236, VouchersPublic housing,other HUDsite-based, andvouchersVOUCHERS and SITE-BASED<strong>Race</strong> and IncomeconcentrationProperty valuessurroundingsubsidizedhousing atvarious distancesDescriptive statistics on the ratio<strong>of</strong> subsidized housing in centralcities and suburbs as well aslocation and extent in highminority census tracts.Hedonic price regressionanalysis for different types <strong>of</strong>subsidized housing at variousdistances.<strong>The</strong> Section 8 certificate program was justbeginning implementation and not all areaswere covered. Where they were operational,they were much more widely dispersed thanpublic housing and with relatively fewerconcentrated in minority areas.<strong>The</strong> number <strong>of</strong> units has a small butstatistically significant negative effect whichdiminishes with distance from thesubsidized housing. Larger increases in thenumber <strong>of</strong> subsidized units (larger projects)have more <strong>of</strong> an impact that individual unitsbeing added to neighborhoods.198

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