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

updated LIHTC data. Although HUD had updated the database since 2000 with morerecent LIHTC data, in some cases the LIHTC database was more up to date,particularly early 1990 projects which were sometimes reported in the 1990’s but notcompleted during the 1990’s. This resulted in the removal of 3,894 projects with179,824 units.Subsidized Housing Unit CharacteristicsThe study calculates a total number of subsidized housing units as well as therelative ratio of units of subsidized housing by type at the census tract level. Thereforeit is appropriate to ask if these types of units are comparable.All subsidized housing programs in this study serve very low and extremelylow income households. However, LIHTC units serve relatively higher incomehouseholds ($13,300 compared to about $9,500 for other types). Other site-basedunits on average house smaller households (1.9 persons per household compared toabout 2.5 for other types). Public housing projects are significantly larger in size thanother site-based housing types (40 percent of public housing units were in projectswith over 200 units compared to about 15 percent of units in projects of other types).The use of number of units (rather than number of projects) in this study should reducethis bias. Data is not available at the census tract level for all subsidized housingtypes. See Appendix A-6 for subsidized housing tenant characteristics.50