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

areas, however, they also did not move to areas of greater concentration or causegreater concentration through their moves. The existing pattern of racial andeconomic segregation in the housing market was the dominant factor.Devine, Gray, Rubin and Taghavi (2003) compared vouchers and other typesof subsidized housing and found that vouchers are more widely dispersed than sitebased subsidized housing. Vouchers were less dispersed in the suburbs than in thecities when location is compared to the number of census tracts with affordablehousing.Two studies looked at voucher concentration over time. Carlson, Haveman,Kaplan and Wolfe (2008) in a study in Wisconsin which used locally collectedinformation, found that voucher holders did not experience neighborhood qualityincreases initially, but over the longer term moved to better neighborhoods. Hartungand Henig (1997) concluded that in Washington, DC the economic factors appear tobe more potent predictors than race. McClure (2004) found no change in destinationneighborhoods before and after welfare reform.Other studies focused on whether vouchers had an impact on theneighborhoods. Galster, Tatian and Smith (1999) found negative spillover effectswhen there were clusters of Section 8 vouchers in small vulnerable neighborhoods.Guhathakurta and Mushkatel (2002) found small negative spillover effects at .5 miles28