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Newman, Sandra J.; Schnare, Ann B.

doi:10.1080/10511482.1993.9521139

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“…First, children may be positively affected by the superior physical quality of public housing relative to the dwellings of similar families in marketrate housing. Recent empirical evidence confirms the expectation that public housing should improve the physical adequacy of a family's dwelling unit (Currie and Yelowitz, 2000;Newman and Schnare, 1993). However, limited research links housing quality to children's outcomes.…”

Section: Potential Effects Of Public Housingmentioning

confidence: 88%

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The long‐term effects of public housing on self‐sufficiency

Newman

Harkness

2001

J Policy Anal Manage

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Recent years have witnessed an intensification of the debate about the fundamental purpose of public assistance to the poor and the effects of these programs on children. This study uses enriched data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the effects of living in public housing as a child at some point between 1968 and 1982 on four young adult outcomes: welfare receipt; individual earnings; household earnings relative to the federal poverty line; and employment. Living in public housing during childhood increased employment, raised earnings, and reduced welfare use, but had no effect on household earnings relative to the poverty line. The beneficial effects could have arisen because public housing improved physical living conditions, reduced residential mobility, or enabled families to spend more of their income on items that benefit children's development. Whether these effects apply to contemporary public housing is unknown. © 2002 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

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Section: Potential Effects Of Public Housingmentioning

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“…Public housing developments also exhibit severe concentrations of households characterized by low income, welfare dependency, and low educational achievement (Newman and Schnare, 1993).…”

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The long‐term effects of public housing on self‐sufficiency

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Harkness

2001

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“…They better serve families with children (Casey 1992), the group for which serious housing needs have increased most rapidly (HUD 1991, 17), and provide them better neighborhoods (Newman and Schnare 1993). By not restricting assisted households to specific locations, they allow renters access to job opportunities and better schools.…”

Section: Tenant-based Assistancementioning

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Whoseshortage of affordable housing?

Nelson

1994

Housing Policy Debate

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Shortfalls of low-rent units are repeatedly cited as the rationale for programs to expand the supply of affordable housing. But the poverty-level rents studied fall well below those of major supply programs. To reassess whether HOME and the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) address actual shortfalls, this article compares numbers of units with renters by measuring both affordability and incomes with the median-income-based metric used for all federal rental programs.During the 1980s, there were growing surpluses of units affordable to renters with incomes between 50 and 80 percent of their area's median income, a "lowincome" range that includes most HOME and LIHTC rents. By contrast, shortages were severe and growing only at rents affordable to households with incomes below 30 percent of area median. Examination of these shortfalls and the problems they create implies that programs to expand supply are not widely needed.

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“…One hypothesis is that the large concentrations of very low-income tenants in dense public housing and other project-based assisted housing developments discourage work effort (Newman & Schnare, 1994, 1997). An alternative or additional hypothesis is that the limited information, experience, and contacts of social networks in such settings could restrict residents' economic advancement.…”

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“…But a study by researchers in HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research, which compared respondent self-reports in the AHS with validated administrative data, revealed sizable disparities (Shroder & Martin, 1996) earlier analysis of the AHS (Newman & Schnare, 1994) and a later analysis of the PSID (Newman, 1999). All this is compelling evidence that it is very difficult for many survey respondents to provide accurate answers to questions about receipt of housing assistance, let alone the type of housing assistance received.…”

Section: Assisted Housing Self-reportsmentioning

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The long‐term effects of public housing on self‐sufficiency

Whoseshortage of affordable housing?

Does housing matter for poor families? A critical summary of research and issues still to be resolved

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