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

Subsidized units in these tracts consist of 108,535 public housing units, 302,601 othersite-based units, 222,518 LIHTC units and 264,813 vouchers.TABLE 4.8Subsidized Units by Poverty Rate in Census Tract 2000Census TractPoverty RateTotalSubsidizedUnits %MeanSubsidizedHousingUnits perTractNumberCensusTracts %SubsidizedUnits asPercent ofTotalHousingUnits inTractSubsidizedUnits asPercent ofRental Unitsin TractUnder 5% 269,029 6.7 18 14,602 28.6 0.97 5.115 – 9.9% 628,923 15.6 47 13,494 26.4 2.36 7.7810 – 14.9% 607,404 15.1 82 7,451 14.6 4.30 10.9715 – 19.9% 527,896 13.1 111 4,767 9.3 6.43 13.7820 – 29.9% 843,950 21.0 152 5,563 10.9 9.64 17.4130 – 39.9% 584,031 14.5 193 3,019 5.9 14.22 22.01Over 40% 565,650 14.0 255 2,222 4.3 22.89 28.70Total 4,026,883 100.0 79 51,118 100.0% 5.01 10.84Neighborhoods with between 15 and 20 percent poverty have been raised aspotential transitional zones which need to be monitored for further poverty increases.Threshold effects could result in neighborhood decline greater than would be normallyexpected from a small increase in the poverty rate (Galster and Quercia, 2000).Figures 4.1 and 4.2 present the number of subsidized units by census tractpoverty rate. There are 527,896 subsidized units located in tracts with moderatepoverty rates between 15 and 20 percent (13.1 percent of all subsidized units) with a67