Affordable Housing and the Socioeconomic Integration of Elementary Schools

Keith Ihlanfeldt and Tom Mayock ()
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Tom Mayock: UNC Charlotte and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2019, vol. 58, issue 4, No 3, 567-595

Abstract: Abstract Children from poor families achieve more academically if they are enrolled in schools that are socioeconomically integrated, but low-income students are increasingly attending schools characterized by high concentrations of poverty. Providing more housing opportunities for low-income families within the attendance zones of middle- and high-income schools has the potential to reverse this trend, but the link between the housing stock and the socioeconomic segregation of public schools has not been addressed in the existing literature. Using a panel of elementary schools in Florida, we show that increasing the stock of rental and affordable housing units in middle- and high-income neighborhoods has an important effect on the number of poor children attending these schools. Our results also reveal the types of housing units that have the largest impacts on socioeconomic segregation.

Keywords: School segregation; Housing affordability; Academic achievement of poor children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11146-018-9665-0

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