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Title: The Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment on Participants’ Residential Environments

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2017

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ISSN: 1051-1482

DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2016.1245210

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PMID: 28966541

Abstract: We used the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing experiment to inform how housing choice vouchers and housing mobility policies can assist families living in high-poverty areas to make opportunity moves to higher quality neighborhoods, across a wide range of neighborhood attributes. We compared the neighborhood attainment of the three randomly-assigned MTO treatment groups (Low Poverty voucher, Section 8 voucher, Control group) at 1997 and 2002 locations (4-7 years after baseline), by using survey reports, and by linking residential histories to numerous different administrative and population-based datasets. Compared to controls, families in Low-Poverty and Section 8 groups experienced substantial improvements in neighborhood conditions across diverse measures, including economic conditions, social systems (e.g., collective efficacy), physical features of the environment (e.g., tree cover) and health outcomes. The Low-poverty voucher group moreover achieved better neighborhood attainment compared to Section 8. Treatment effects were largest for New York and Los Angeles. We discuss the implications of our findings for expanding affordable housing policy.

Url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28966541

Url: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC5616217

Url: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2016.1245210

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Authors: Nguyen, Quynh C.; Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores; Schmidt, Nicole M.; Osypuk, Theresa L

Periodical (Full): Housing Policy Debate

Issue: 3

Volume: 27

Pages: 419-448

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