articles: Economic impacts of subsidized housing relocation

Michael P. Johnson () and Arthur P. Hurter ()
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Michael P. Johnson: H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
Arthur P. Hurter: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

Papers in Regional Science, 1999, vol. 78, issue 3, 265-295

Abstract: In recent years increased emphasis has been placed on use of "tenant-based" housing subsidies for acquisition of market-rate housing that is more economically and racially integrated than traditional "project-based" public housing. In this article, we model the short-term economic effects upon various groups of a hypothetical program in which low-income families move from inner-city public housing to spatially dispersed Section 8 rental housing. Using cross-section data from the Chicago region, impacts are computed for two of these groups. Preliminary results indicate that the short-term net economic impact of this hypothetical housing relocation is negative, that these impacts have a spatial character, and that there is a potential tradeoff between tenant benefits, housing subsidies from society and housing integration.

Keywords: Housing; benefit-cost analysis; public sector; welfare economics; mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H40 R21 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-07-28
Note: Received: 20 January 1998
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