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Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multifamily Housing in Massachusetts
Local governments frequently restrict multifamily housing through a variety of zoning tools, which may reduce the ability of low-income households to afford housing in desirable locations. In this article, I use a new and unusually rich data set on ...
Author(s): Jenny Schuetz
Accession Number: 201380
2008

Do Tenants Capture the Benefits from the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program?
This article compares the rent savings accrued by recipient households over the life cycle of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) projects to their allocated tax credits. A simple two-stage empirical procedure is developed and implemented for a ...
Author(s): Gregory Burge
Accession Number: 201378
2011

Comparing residential mobility programs: design elements, neighborhood placements, and outcomes in MTO and Gautreaux
Reviewing prior studies of two residential mobility programs, the Gautreaux and Moving to Opportunity (MTO) programs, this paper examines whether program design elements may explain differences in neighborhood placements, which in turn may ...
Author(s): James Rosenbaum, Anita Zuberi
Accession Number: 201377
2010

Supporting low-income homeowners: lessons from a program to coordinate weatherization and rehabilitation services
Homeownership is the primary way most families build wealth in this country. Low-income homeowners are less likely to get that benefit because they are more likely to own older houses that are more costly to operate and need more essential ...
Author(s): William Rohe, Spencer Cowan, Roberto Quercia
Accession Number: 201376
2010

Estimating the local economic impacts of HOPE VI
This study identifies and measures the demonstrable changes to local political economies that can be reasonably attributed to HOPE VI redevelopments. It examines the extent to which the developments have contributed to increases in surrounding ...
Author(s): Sean Zielenbach, Richard Voith, Michael Mariano
Accession Number: 201375
2010

Mixed-Use Development: A Call for Research
Planned mixed-use developments have been growing in popularity in recent decades, first as urban redevelopment schemes and now as suburban development hubs. Despite being touted as more environmentally friendly and financially successful than ...
Author(s): Joseph Rabianski, Karen Gibler, O. Alan Tidwell, J...
Accession Number: 201374
2009

Spillovers and Local Growth Controls: An Alternative Perspective on Suburbanization
Since the 1970s, many local jurisdictions in politically fragmented metropolitan regions have enacted growth control and management measures to tackle the challenges arising from rapid suburban growth. These locally implemented growth controls have ...
Author(s): Adrian Esparza, Pillsung Byun, Brigitte Waldorf
Accession Number: 201373
2005

"Weathering" HOPE VI: The Importance of Evaluating the Population Health Impact of Public Housing Demolition and Displacement
HOPE VI has funded the demolition of public housing developments across the United States and created in their place mixed-income communities that are often inaccessible to the majority of former tenants. This recent uprooting of low-income, urban, ...
Author(s): Danya Keene, Arline Geronimus
Accession Number: 201372
2011

The credit crunch and subsidized low-income housing: the UK and US experience compared
This paper examines how the mortgage crisis and subsequent recession have affected subsidized rental housing in the United Kingdom and the United States. These two nations approach the housing needs of low-income households in very different ways ...
Author(s): Alex Schwartz
Accession Number: 201371
2011

If You Promise to Build It, Will They Come? The Interaction between Local Economic Development Policy and the Real Estate Market: Evidence from Tax Increment Finance Districts
The analysis in this article examines the impacts of one of the more prominent economic development tools, tax increment financing (TIF) districts, on the local commercial real estate market. The study area is the city of Chicago, a community with a ...
Author(s): Brent Smith
Accession Number: 201370
2009
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