What should housing vouchers do? A review of the recent literature |
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Authors: | David Varady |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper challenges the assumption that housing vouchers help recipients move from crime-ridden inner-city areas to ‘good’
lower-poverty neighborhoods and, in turn, to achieve self-sufficiency. A review of the American and European literature on
housing mobility programs and on mixed-income communities fails to support this belief. Efforts to maintain, and expand, the
voucher program should be based on the program’s proven ability to provide decent and affordable housing rather than on unproven
claims that it promotes poverty deconcentration and family self-sufficiency. I find considerable evidence that voucher recipients
cluster spatially and that this promotes social decline in neighborhoods already vulnerable to change. Policymakers need to
monitor voucher settlement patterns and to address programmatic weaknesses that cause negative neighborhood effects and voucher
controversies. |
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