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Transportation Access, Rental Vouchers, and Neighborhood Satisfaction: Evidence From the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

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  • Casey Dawkins
  • Jae Sik Jeon
  • Rolf Pendall

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The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is designed in part to expand the neighborhood choices of assisted households, thereby enabling assisted households to find a living environment that simultaneously meets their housing and neighborhood preferences. While several studies have examined the impact of rental subsidies on neighborhood satisfaction, few have examined whether access to adequate transportation enables HCV recipients to locate housing in more desirable locations. This article relies on data from the Moving to Opportunity experiment to examine the impact of transportation access, rental housing vouchers, and geographic constraints on neighborhood satisfaction. We find that access to both vehicles and public transit positively influences neighborhood satisfaction, and the influence of vehicle access varies with transit proximity. These findings point to the importance of transportation in helping low-income assisted renter households locate housing in more desirable neighborhoods.

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  • Casey Dawkins & Jae Sik Jeon & Rolf Pendall, 2015. "Transportation Access, Rental Vouchers, and Neighborhood Satisfaction: Evidence From the Moving to Opportunity Experiment," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(3), pages 497-530, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:25:y:2015:i:3:p:497-530
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2014.986662
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    1. Andrew Schouten, 2021. "Residential mobility and the geography of low-income households," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(9), pages 1846-1865, July.
    2. Kim, Junghwan & Lee, Bumsoo, 2019. "More than travel time: New accessibility index capturing the connectivity of transit services," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 8-18.
    3. Blumenberg, Evelyn & Pierce, Gregory, 2017. "Car access and long-term poverty exposure: Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 92-100.

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