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Will they stay or will they go: Predicting subsidized housing opt-outs

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  • Reina, Vincent
  • Begley, Jaclene

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Over the past 30years, the share of renters in the United States spending over 30% of their income on rent, and thereby qualifying as rent burdened, has increased. This trend has particularly affected low-income families. At the same time, owners of thousands of privately owned, publicly subsidized rental housing units have left, or “opted out,” of subsidy programs across the country. The efforts of local governments to preserve these properties as affordable housing are handicapped by a lack of understanding of the underlying factors that drive owners’ decisions to opt out. This paper employs a unique dataset on subsidized properties in New York City and uses hazard models to explore why property owners in the Mitchell-Lama program, a New York State affordable housing program, choose to opt out. Our results suggest that properties located in neighborhoods with high property value growth, those with for-profit owners, and those past the affordability restrictions on all subsidies, are more likely to opt out. While our study focuses on Mitchell-Lama properties, the findings have broader implications for properties around the country that receive supply-side rental subsidies.

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  • Reina, Vincent & Begley, Jaclene, 2014. "Will they stay or will they go: Predicting subsidized housing opt-outs," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(C), pages 1-16.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jhouse:v:23:y:2014:i:c:p:1-16
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2013.11.002
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