Cores and Peripheries: Spatial Analysis of Housing Choice Voucher Distribution in the San Francisco Bay Area Region, 2000–2010

Rongerude, Jane; Haddad, Mônica A.

doi:10.1080/10511482.2015.1128958

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“…Over the next several decades deindustrialization and disinvestment in this community included closure of the naval shipyard in the mid-1970s resulting in thousands of lost jobs. The redevelopment of public housing in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in a net loss of housing units (Howard, 2014; Rongerude, 2009) and subsequent displacement of many Black residents, shaped in part by federal policy (primarily HOPE VI) and the specific failure to replace housing one-for-one and ensure resident returns (Hartman, 2002). As a consequence, many residents in this community were forced to leave the city as part of a larger outmigration of mostly Black San Franciscans (San Francisco Mayor’s Task Force on African American Out-Migration, 2009).…”

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Homeplace: Care and resistance among public housing residents facing mixed-income redevelopment.

Hagan¹,

Hall²,

Mamo³

et al. 2020

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Low-income communities of color experience significant political, economic, and health inequities and, not unrelatedly, are disproportionately exposed to violent crime than are residents of higher income communities. In an effort to mitigate concentrations of poverty and crime, governmental agencies have partnered with affordable housing developers to redevelop public housing "projects" into mixed-income communities and to do so within a "trauma-informed" framework. The current study analyzes how residents have historically and contemporaneously negotiated, endured, and resisted structural and interpersonal violence in 2 long-standing, predominately African American, public housing communities undergoing a public-private housing redevelopment initiative. Interviews with 44 adult public housing residents (age range ϭ 18 -75 years; 82% African American/Black) were conducted during a 2-year period while residents' homes were being demolished and rebuilt into mixed-income communities. Analysis of in-depth interviews used constructivist grounded theory principles to reveal a common theme and basic social process of the ongoing formation of homeplace, with subthemes focusing on the ways homeplace emerges through shared lineage, knowing and caring practices; how homeplace is maintained through networks of protection in unsafe contexts; how homeplace is disrupted as a result of redevelopment activities; and the reclamation of homeplace during redevelopment in the service of hope and healing. These findings offer a nuanced view of resident's lived experiences of place-based trauma and collective resistance and resilience, while also highlighting the place-specific ways in which redevelopment unsettles deeply rooted sociocultural configurations of home and community. Public Policy Relevance StatementThis study highlights the ways in which elevating community voices in public policy assessments, using the case of housing policy, can inform how to best maintain community strengths. Findings reveal the complex ways that collective resilience operates in low-income communities of color and suggest that community strengths be incorporated into housing interventions aiming to enact structural, community and interpersonal change.

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Homeplace: Care and resistance among public housing residents facing mixed-income redevelopment.

Hagan¹,

Hall²,

Mamo³

et al. 2020

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…This outcome has been documented in a large body of research on the HCV program. For example, Rongerude and Haddad (2016) used spatial statistics to examine the distribution of HCVs in the San Francisco Bay Area between 2000 and 2010. They found that over time, vouchers became more clustered in areas with lower housing prices, lower levels of educational attainment, higher poverty, and larger African American populations.…”

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It Is Not Always Sunny in San Diego for Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Holders: The Reproduction of Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation under the Choice Communities Initiative

Patterson

Silverman

Wang

2021

J of Pol Practice & Research

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This article examines residential mobility patterns of housing choice voucher (HCV) holders in San Diego, CA. It focuses on whether HCV holders moved to higher opportunity ZIP codes following the adoption of the Choice Communities Initiative by the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) in 2018. This initiative was designed to incentivize moves to high opportunity ZIP codes using tiered rent subsidies. The analysis is based on a dataset that combines two sources. One includes data obtained from the SDHC measuring: race, ethnicity, gender, household characteristics, rent subsidy levels, and residential mobility for 11,126 HCV recipients. The other includes small area fair market rents (SAFMRs) for ZIP codes in San Diego. Data were analyzed using GIS maps and logistic regression. The results indicate that patterns of racial and socioeconomic segregation have been reinforced in San Diego. Most HCV moves happened within the lowest opportunity ZIP codes, regardless of races. Moves to higher opportunity ZIP codes were impeded due to the inversion of rent subsidies. Rent subsidies were set relatively higher in low opportunity ZIP codes when compared with high opportunity ZIP codes. The findings identify areas where specific policies related to the setting of rent subsidies can be strengthened in order to promote opportunity moves. In a broader context, they highlight the importance of fidelity to programmatic goals in the policy implementation process.

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“…For example, Rongerude and Haddad (2016) used spatial statistics to examine the distribution of HCVs in the San Francisco Bay Area between 2000 and 2010. They found that over time vouchers became more clustered in areas with lower housing prices, lower levels of educational attainment, higher poverty, and larger African American populations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) on the Geographic, Socio-economic, and Public Policy Periphery: A Critical Case Study of Blocked Mobility in the City of San Diego, California

2021

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This article examines the geographic and socio-economic distribution of housing choice vouchers (HCVs) in the city of San Diego, California. It focuses on how the concentration of HCVs on geographic, socio-economic, and public policy peripheries forms a nexus that limits housing options for low-income residents. The analysis is based on a unique database that combines three datasets. One includes data for 13,973 individual HCV recipients measuring head of household characteristics (race, Hispanic ethnicity, gender, and age) and housing unit characteristics (unit size, rents, public subsidy levels). Another data set includes population and housing characteristics at the ZIP code level from the American Community Survey (ACS). The third data set includes small area fair market rents (SAFMRs) for ZIP codes and fair market rents (FMRs) for metropolitan San Diego. Data are displayed using GIS and analyzed using logistic hierarchical regression models. The results indicated that the public housing authority (PHA) that administers HCVs in the city of San Diego implemented the HCV program in a manner that reinforced the concentration of program participants in low-income areas and impeded moves to higher opportunity areas. The results expand our understanding of how geography, socio-economics, and public policy shape the production and reproduction of the periphery.

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Cores and Peripheries: Spatial Analysis of Housing Choice Voucher Distribution in the San Francisco Bay Area Region, 2000–2010

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

Homeplace: Care and resistance among public housing residents facing mixed-income redevelopment.

Homeplace: Care and resistance among public housing residents facing mixed-income redevelopment.

It Is Not Always Sunny in San Diego for Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Holders: The Reproduction of Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation under the Choice Communities Initiative

Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) on the Geographic, Socio-economic, and Public Policy Periphery: A Critical Case Study of Blocked Mobility in the City of San Diego, California

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