The Effect of Low-Income Housing on Neighborhood Mobility: Evidence from Linked Micro-Data

Quentin Brummet and Otavio Bartalotti

CARRA Working Papers from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

Abstract: While subsidized low-income housing construction provides affordable living conditions for poor households, many observers worry that building low-income housing in poor communities induces individuals to move to poor neighborhoods. We examine this issue using detailed, nationally representative microdata constructed from linked decennial censuses. Our analysis exploits exogenous variation in low-income housing supply induced by program eligibility rules for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits to estimate the effect of subsidized housing on neighborhood mobility patterns. The results indicate little evidence to suggest a causal effect of additional low-income housing construction on the characteristics of neighborhoods to which households move. This result is true for households across the income distribution, and supports the hypothesis that subsidized housing provides affordable living conditions without encouraging households to move to less-affluent neighborhoods than they would have otherwise.

Keywords: low-income; microdata; subsidized housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/ ... carra-wp-2016-02.pdf First version, 2016 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The Effect of Low-Income Housing on Neighborhood Mobility: Evidence from Linked Micro-Data (2016)
Working Paper: The Effect of Low-Income Housing on Neighborhood Mobility: Evidence from Linked Micro-Data (2016)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cen:cpaper:2016-02

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CARRA Working Papers from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dawn Anderson ().