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Gateway to Opportunity? Disparities in Neighborhood Conditions Among Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Residents

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  • Ingrid Gould Ellen
  • Keren Mertens Horn
  • Yiwen Kuai

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A key goal of housing assistance programs is to help lower income households reach neighborhoods of opportunity. Studies have described the degree to which Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments are located in high-opportunity neighborhoods, but our focus is on how neighborhood outcomes vary across different subsets of LIHTC residents. We also examine whether LIHTC households are better able to reach certain types of neighborhood opportunities. Specifically, we use new data on LIHTC tenants in 12 states along with eight measures of neighborhood opportunity. We find that compared with other rental units, LIHTC units are located in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates, weaker labor markets, more polluted environments, and lower performing schools, but better transit access. We also find that compared with other LIHTC tenants, poor and minority tenants live in neighborhoods that are significantly more disadvantaged.

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  • Ingrid Gould Ellen & Keren Mertens Horn & Yiwen Kuai, 2018. "Gateway to Opportunity? Disparities in Neighborhood Conditions Among Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Residents," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(4), pages 572-591, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:28:y:2018:i:4:p:572-591
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2017.1413584
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    1. Voith, Richard & Liu, Jing & Zielenbach, Sean & Jakabovics, Andrew & An, Brian & Rodnyansky, Seva & Orlando, Anthony W. & Bostic, Raphael W., 2022. "Effects of concentrated LIHTC development on surrounding house prices," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C).
    2. Cody Cook & Pearl Z. Li & Ariel J. Binder, 2023. "Where to Build Affordable Housing? Evaluating the Tradeoffs of Location," Working Papers 23-62, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    3. Mark Brennan & Aditi Mehta & Justin Steil, 2022. "In Harm's Way? The Effect of Disasters on the Magnitude and Location of Low‐Income Housing Tax Credit Allocations," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(2), pages 486-514, March.

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