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Does mobility matter? The neighborhood conditions of housing voucher holders by race and ethnicity

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  • Victoria Basolo
  • Mai Nguyen

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Mobility is one mechanism used to address the federal goals of deconcen‐trating poverty and minorities. The Housing Choice Voucher Program relies on participants to make residential location decisions consistent with these goals. Our research investigates the level and impact of mobility on the neighborhood quality of voucher holders, their neighborhood conditions by race and ethnicity, and perceived obstacles to mobility within the jurisdiction of a Southern California housing authority. About one‐third of the sample moved during the study, and moving resulted in improved neighborhoods for only one subset of movers. Minorities live in more impoverished, overcrowded neighborhoods than nonminorities, even when controlling for mobility status, contract rent, and other factors. Further, most voucher holders see the lack of rental units as a major obstacle to mobility. These findings suggest that current policy is not uniformly achieving deconcentration and that real and perceived barriers to mobility exist, especially for minorities.

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  • Victoria Basolo & Mai Nguyen, 2005. "Does mobility matter? The neighborhood conditions of housing voucher holders by race and ethnicity," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3-4), pages 297-324.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:16:y:2005:i:3-4:p:297-324
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2005.9521546
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    1. Stefanie DeLuca & Philip M. E. Garboden & Peter Rosenblatt, 2013. "Segregating Shelter," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 647(1), pages 268-299, May.
    2. Geoff Boeing & Jake Wegmann & Junfeng Jiao, 2020. "Rental Housing Spot Markets: How Online Information Exchanges Can Supplement Transacted-Rents Data," Papers 2002.01578, arXiv.org.
    3. Jane Rongerude & Mônica Haddad, 2016. "Cores and Peripheries: Spatial Analysis of Housing Choice Voucher Distribution in the San Francisco Bay Area Region, 2000--2010," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(3), pages 417-436, May.

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