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The low income housing tax credit and racial segregation

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  • Keren M. Horn
  • Katherine M. O'Regan

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This paper addresses a critical but almost unexamined aspect of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program -- whether its use (and in particular, the siting of developments in high-poverty/high-minority neighborhoods), is associated with increased racial segregation in the metropolitan area. Using data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Census, supplemented with data on the racial composition of LIHTC tenants in three states, we examine three potential channels through which the LIHTC could affect segregation: where LIHTC units are built relative to where other low income households live, who lives in these tax credit developments, and changes in neighborhood racial composition in neighborhoods that receive tax credit projects. The evidence on each of these channels suggests that LIHTC projects do not contribute to increased segregation, even those in high poverty neighborhoods. We find that increases in the use of tax credits are associated with declines in racial segregation at the metropolitan level.

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  • Keren M. Horn & Katherine M. O'Regan, 2011. "The low income housing tax credit and racial segregation," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(3), pages 443-473, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:21:y:2011:i:3:p:443-473
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2011.591536
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    1. Deepak Saraswat, 2022. "Labor Market Impacts of Exposure to Affordable Housing Supply: Evidence from the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program," Working papers 2022-09, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
    2. Osborne Jackson & Laura Kawano, 2015. "Do increases in subsidized housing reduce the incidence of homelessness?: evidence from the low-income housing tax credit," Working Papers 15-11, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    3. Olsen, Edgar O. & Zabel, Jeffrey E., 2015. "US Housing Policy," Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, in: Gilles Duranton & J. V. Henderson & William C. Strange (ed.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edition 1, volume 5, chapter 0, pages 887-986, Elsevier.
    4. Lang, Bree J., 2015. "Input distortions in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: Evidence from building size," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 119-128.
    5. Di, Wenhua & Murdoch, James C., 2013. "The impact of the low income housing tax credit program on local schools," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(4), pages 308-320.
    6. Myron Orfield & Will Stancil & Thomas Luce & Eric Myott, 2016. "Taking a Holistic View of Housing Policy," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(2), pages 284-295, March.

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