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

from the vouchers. However, there was a positive spillover if the household washeaded by a female, all other factors held constant.Gillen (2005) in a study in Philadelphia found higher turnover rates than theaverage in areas that have higher voucher rate. The higher turnover rate is alsoassociated with price declines. Low and high Section 8 neighborhoods had meanincomes that were similar and were half that of “no-Section 8” neighborhoods. Low-Section 8 neighborhoods had half the percentage non-white than high-Section 8neighborhoods.Concentration of Multiple Types of Subsidized Housing 4A search of the literature identified only six studies (out of 65) that includedthree or more types of housing subsidies including both site-based and tenant-basedtype subsidies. Until 1996 there was a lack of national comprehensive data onsubsidized housing and the data available at that time was for the early 1990’s.Researchers have been driven to look for creative ways to resolve the lack ofstandardized data at the census tract level in order to study the concentration of4Multiple is defined as three or more types of subsidized housing programs with bothsite-based and tenant-based subsidies in the same study.29