What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?

Dionissi Aliprantis, Hal Martin and Kristen Tauber

No 20-36R, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: This paper studies how design features influence the success of Housing Mobility Programs (HMPs) in reducing racial segregation. Targeting neighborhoods based on previous residents' outcomes does not allow for targeting race-specific outcomes, generates uncertainty when targeting income-specific outcomes, and generates bias in ranking neighborhoods' effects. Moreover, targeting opportunity bargains based on previous residents' outcomes selects tracts with large disagreements in current and previous residents' outcomes, with such disagreements predicted by sorting since 1990. HMP success is aided by the ability to port vouchers across jurisdictions, access to cars, and relaxing supply constraints, perhaps by targeting lower-ranked neighborhoods.

Keywords: housing mobility program; opportunity mapping; neighborhood effects; housing choice voucher program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 I38 J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 77
Date: 2020-11-24, Revised 2022-10-19
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Note: This paper incorporates content from two previous working papers, one under the same title (WP 20-36) and the other circulated as “Neighborhood Sorting Obscures Neighborhood Effects in the Opportunity Atlas" (WP 20-37).
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DOI: 10.26509/frbc-wp-202036r

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