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

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exclusion <strong>of</strong> these units is not problematic because they are not “occupied” and wouldnot result in a change in the measure <strong>of</strong> concentration at the census tract level (unlikeproject-based units which are physically located in the tract whether or not they arevacant and may be indistinguishable when mixed with occupied units). In addition tothe unoccupied units, 5.6 percent <strong>of</strong> vouchers (82,239) are missing due to HUD’sinability to geocode the units due to incomplete address information.<strong>The</strong> HUD database on projects at the census tract level includes units in publichousing, multi-family, Section 236, Section 8 projects-based, and LIHTC. Data on themoderate rehab (MR) program (111,392 units) was only available at the MSA or Statelevel. It was determined that the lack <strong>of</strong> census tract level data on the moderate rehabprogram did not represent a loss to the analysis <strong>of</strong> subsidized units due to the smallnumber <strong>of</strong> units.Projects were listed by address and needed to be aggregated to the census tractfor purposes <strong>of</strong> comparison with vouchers that were already compiled by census tract.ArcGIS was used to geocode the projects from geographic coordinates (latitude andlongitude) provided in the database. <strong>The</strong>re was sufficient geographic coordinate datato geocode 95 percent <strong>of</strong> project-based units at the census tract level.A separate database on LIHTC units (also maintained by HUD) was used tosupplement the project database. <strong>The</strong> LIHTC database was used to validate thenumber <strong>of</strong> units aggregated at the MSA level and to modify the data when there was49

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