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Decision Support for a Housing Mobility Program Using a Multiobjective Optimization Model

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  • Michael P. Johnson

    (H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213)

  • Arthur P. Hurter

    (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208)

Abstract

As result of public housing reform and welfare reform, the operating environment of public housing authorities has changed significantly. Given these policy initiatives, housing mobility programs represent viable strategies for providing public housing residents with access to economically healthy, integrated neighborhoods. In this paper we present a decision support methodology to assist the design of housing mobility programs. This methodology incorporates economic models for estimating dollar-valued impacts associated with tenant relocation, and a multiobjective optimization model for generating alternative relocation schemes associated with various objective function weights. Using data for Lake County, Illinois and Chicago, we demonstrate that nondominated allocations represent significant trade-offs between dollar-valued and non-dollar-valued policy objectives; existing distributions of subsidized housing represent suboptimal solutions to the housing relocation problem; and increases in available rental housing can result in housing dispersion schemes that have positive net economic benefits relative to the status quo.

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  • Michael P. Johnson & Arthur P. Hurter, 2000. "Decision Support for a Housing Mobility Program Using a Multiobjective Optimization Model," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 46(12), pages 1569-1584, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:46:y:2000:i:12:p:1569-1584
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.46.12.1569.12077
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