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来源

HOUSING POLICY DEBATE,Vol.27,Issue4,P.519-546

语言

英文

关键字

Vouchers; housing mobility; segregation; neighborhoods; schools; race; residential mobility; HIGH-POVERTY NEIGHBORHOODS; DISTRESSED NEIGHBORHOODS; VOUCHER PROGRAM; INCOME; CHOICE; GAUTREAUX; LIVE; FAMILIES; CHILDREN; BLACKS

作者单位

[DeLuca, Stefanie] Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Sociol, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA. [Rosenblatt, Peter] Loyola Univ, Dept Sociol, Chicago, IL 60611 USA. DeLuca, S (reprint author), Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Sociol, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA. E-Mail: sdeluca@jhu.edu

摘要

Families using the Housing Choice Voucher Program rarely experience large gains in neighborhood or school quality when compared with unassisted poor renters. Research on housing mobility programs has reached mixed conclusions about whether vouchers can improve neighborhood and school quality, especially in the long term. We revisit these findings using new data from the partial remedy to the Thompson v. HUD desegregation case in Baltimore, known as the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program (BHMP). Through targeted vouchers, intensive counseling and innovative policy features, the BHMP helped families move to low-poverty, nonsegregated neighborhoods with higher performing school districts. We examine residential outcomes for the first 1,800 families that moved through the program for a period of up to 9 years. We find that BHMP families moved to more integrated and affluent neighborhoods, in school districts with more qualified teachers and fewer poor studentsand most families stayed in these neighborhoods beyond their initial lease-up period. Eventually, a small proportion of families moved to neighborhoods that are less white, but still significantly less poor and less segregated than their original communities. We interpret these findings in light of past mobility programs and discuss policy implications for the Housing Choice Voucher Program.