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

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that they are smaller scale, better designed, and better managed than prior publichousing which may have had a positive impact on neighborhoods.Although there has been a significant increase in studies on vouchers due to theavailability <strong>of</strong> national data through special arrangement with HUD, there has not beena recent study on the cumulative concentration <strong>of</strong> multiple housing programs inneighborhoods.<strong>The</strong>re was an unexpected decrease in concentrated poverty during the 1990’s(Ellen & O’Regan, 2008; Jargowsky, 2005; Kingsley & Pettit, 2003) which was achange from the preceding two decades. At the same time there were policy changesin the 1990’s consisting <strong>of</strong> poverty deconcentration through the use <strong>of</strong> tenant-basedvouchers, small programs such as MTO and other mobility programs, demolition <strong>of</strong>highly concentrated public housing projects through the HOPE VI program, and theinitiation <strong>of</strong> the LIHTC program in which the private-sector selected the site andpolicies encouraged greater income diversification (Dawkins, 2007; Ellen & O’Regan,2008). Changes in the location and concentration <strong>of</strong> poverty as well as housing policychanges could impact the concentration <strong>of</strong> subsidized housing.39

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