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How Affordable Housing Can Exclude: The Political Economy of Subsidized Housing

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  • Katherine Levine Einstein
  • Maxwell Palmer

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Affordable housing is often studied as a single good: we measure its production and availability; evaluate policies to increase supply; or study the development process. But, there are many types of affordable housing. In this paper, we ask: How do the different types of affordable housing shape the politics of permitting new affordable housing, and what is the impact of these politics on home-seekers? Focusing on rental housing with subsidized rents, we find that affordable housing is a surprisingly heterogeneous good, which often comes with a number of exclusionary restrictions attached. Some cities and towns disproportionately permit units that are smaller, less financially accessible, and age restricted. Race may motivate at least some of these choices: subsidized housing units in whiter cities and towns are more likely to be age restricted.

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  • Katherine Levine Einstein & Maxwell Palmer, 2024. "How Affordable Housing Can Exclude: The Political Economy of Subsidized Housing," Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, now publishers, vol. 5(1), pages 71-90, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jnlpip:113.00000094
    DOI: 10.1561/113.00000094
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