U.S. Assisted Housing Programs and Poverty Deconcentration: A Critical Geographic Review

Galster, George

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“…For discussions of these issues, see Galster et al (2003, ch. 9), Goering & Feins (2003), Galster (2013aGalster ( , 2013b, and Kleit (2013).…”

Section: Conclusion and Implications: Towards A New Social MIX Policmentioning

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The Dialectic of Neighborhood Social Mix: Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue

Galster

Friedrichs

2015

Housing Studies

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“…For discussions of these issues, see Galster et al (2003, ch. 9), Goering & Feins (2003), Galster (2013aGalster ( , 2013b, and Kleit (2013).…”

Section: Conclusion and Implications: Towards A New Social MIX Policmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Dialectic of Neighborhood Social Mix: Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue

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Friedrichs

2015

Housing Studies

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“…In practice, however, the HCVP has brought about only modest gains in neighborhood quality. The weight of the evidence finds that voucher holders do live in neighborhoods with lower levels of poverty and crime than their unassisted peers and public housing residents, but they continue to cluster in areas with relatively high crime rates and moderate to high levels of poverty (Devine 2003;Galster 2013).…”

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Are Landlords Overcharging Housing Voucher Holders?

Desmond

Perkins

2016

City & Community

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The structure of rental markets coupled with the design of the Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP), the largest federal housing subsidy for low‐income families in the United States, provides the opportunity to overcharge voucher holders. Applying hedonic regression models to a unique data set of Milwaukee renters combined with administrative records, we find that vouchered households are charged between $51 and $68 more in monthly rent than unassisted renters in comparable units and neighborhoods. Overcharging voucher holders costs taxpayers an estimated $3.8 million each year in Milwaukee alone, the equivalent of supplying 620 additional families in that city with housing assistance. These findings suggest that the HCVP could be made more cost‐effective—and therefore more expansive—if overcharging were prevented.

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“…To what degree have past and present subsidized housing programs contributed to creating and maintaining the spatial concentration of disadvantaged populations, thereby constraining their opportunities? The unambiguous answer provided by past research has been: “a great deal” (see Vale, 2013, Goetz, 2013 and the review in Galster, 2013). …”

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Do Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Minority Children Depend on Their Age? Evidence From a Public Housing Natural Experiment

Galster

Santiago

2017

Housing Policy Debate

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We analyze data from a natural experiment involving Denver public housing that quasi-randomly assigns low-income Latino and African American youth to neighborhoods. ITT and TOT models reveal substantial effects of neighborhood socioeconomic status, ethnicity and safety domains on youth and young adult educational, employment and fertility outcomes. Effects are contingent on when a youth was first assigned to public housing and the neighborhood characteristic in question. Benefits from neighbors of higher occupational prestige are stronger if a child begins experiencing them at a younger age, whereas negative consequences of neighborhood crime are only manifested for teens. Neighborhood effect sizes apparently depend on the interaction among exposure duration, disruption effects of mobility, and developmental stage-specific differences in vulnerability to the given neighborhood effect mechanism operative. Our results hold powerful and provocative implications for where assisted housing should be developed and how applicants should be assigned to neighborhoods.

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U.S. Assisted Housing Programs and Poverty Deconcentration: A Critical Geographic Review

Cited by 22 publications

References 46 publications

The Dialectic of Neighborhood Social Mix: Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue

The Dialectic of Neighborhood Social Mix: Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue

Are Landlords Overcharging Housing Voucher Holders?

Do Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Minority Children Depend on Their Age? Evidence From a Public Housing Natural Experiment

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