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Rent Paying Ability and Racial Settlement Patterns

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. Based on the belief that the major remaining hurdle to integration is economic, the proposition has frequently been advanced that if minority households could afford decent housing outside their current communities, many would move from their ghettoes into society at large. Evidence from two housing allowance demonstration projects and the recently completed Experimental Housing Allowance Program raises doubts as to the validity of this contention. While recipients of housing allowances frequently moved to better neighborhoods, only rarely were they able to break free of traditional settlement patterns. Findings suggest that while it may be necessary to increase the rent paying abilities of low‐income minority households as a precondition of integration, that segregation is not likely to be eliminated until the social, psychological, and remaining legal issues associated with it are addressed as well.

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  • Gary T. Johnson, 1986. "Rent Paying Ability and Racial Settlement Patterns," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(1), pages 17-26, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:45:y:1986:i:1:p:17-26
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1986.tb01895.x
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    1. Arthur P. Solomon & Chester G. Fenton, 1974. "The Nation's First Experience with Housing Allowances: The Kansas City Demonstration," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 50(3), pages 213-223.
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    1. Janet Currie, 1998. "The Effect of Welfare on Child Outcomes: What We Know and What We Need to Know," JCPR Working Papers 26, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
    2. Janet Currie, 1994. "Welfare and the Well-Being of Children: The Relative Effectiveness of Cash and In-Kind Transfers," NBER Chapters, in: Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 8, pages 1-44, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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