Examining the Potential Impact of Restricting Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Housing for Individuals With Certain Criminal Convictions in Texas

Laura Witte, Jack Tsai, Paula Cuccaro, Andrea Link, Vanessa Cox and Vanessa Schick

Housing Policy Debate, 2024, vol. 34, issue 3, 353-371

Abstract: Because housing is central to the recovery of individuals with experiences of homelessness and incarceration, it is important to consider how U.S. policies denying housing to residents with criminal histories can adversely affect racial and ethnic minorities and individuals with a history of homelessness. The state of Texas passed a rule specifying certain criteria that Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) supportive housing providers must use to screen tenants using criminal history. A retrospective cohort of 600 LIHTC supportive housing residents was used to estimate the potential impact of the rule. Based on this sample, the rule would have resulted in significantly higher proportions of Black and chronically homeless individuals being denied housing compared to the proportions of White and low-income individuals, respectively, who would have been denied housing. With the exception of drug convictions, there was no significant difference in recidivism between residents who would have been affected by the rule and unaffected residents who also had criminal justice involvement within a comparable time frame before move-in.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2023.2246943

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