What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?

Dionissi Aliprantis, Kristen Tauber () and Hal Martin ()
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Kristen Tauber: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Hal Martin: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

No 2022-043, Working Papers from Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group

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; housing choice voucher program; opportunity mapping; opportunity atlas; neighborhood effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 I38 J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-11
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Journal Article: What determines the success of housing mobility programs? (2024)
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