Participation in a residential mobility program from the client's perspective: Findings from Gautreaux Two

Pashup, Jennifer; Edin, Kathryn; Duncan, Greg J.; Burke, Karen M.

doi:10.1080/10511482.2005.9521550

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“…However, there is also evidence that black voucher holders are moving to neighborhoods that are already disproportionately black (Sanbonmatsu et al 2011), where white flight, if it occurred in response to black newcomers, took place decades ago. 7 Past research has also focused on policy implementation and its role in constraining voucher holders' residential decision-making during the complex search process (Boyd et al 2010;DeLuca et al 2013;Edin et al 2012;Pashup et al 2005;Pendall 2000;Varady and Walker 2003). There are myriad obstacles to successful lease-up with a voucher, including perceived discrimination, tight rental markets, bureaucratic delays, limited experience with the program, household size, health issues (Pashup et al 2005), social networks (Boyd 2008), constrained time windows within which to find a new unit (DeLuca et al 2013), and problems with landlords (Boyd et al 2010;DeLuca et al 2013).…”

Section: Residential Preferences and Neighborhood Attainmentmentioning

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“…Much of the policy debate around the HCV program centers on source of income (SOI) protection laws, and whether or not they should be more widespread to prevent discrimination against voucher holders in more affluent communities, which is often a proxy for racial discrimination. Yet many landlords refuse to accept families with vouchers even in jurisdictions where this is illegal (Pashup et al 2005;Tegeler et al 2005). 9 A study investigating whether SOI laws affect voucher holder locational outcomes finds significant impacts on poverty concentration as well as small but significant impacts on minority concentration associated with the implementation of these laws (Freeman and Li 2012).…”

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Rigging the Rules of the Game: How Landlords Geographically Sort Low–Income Renters

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This paper considers an unexamined mechanism in the selection processes that sort the urban poor into different neighborhood environments: the landlord. Scholars of poverty and residential mobility have long been interested in how the choices of low-income families interact with structural barriers to create high-poverty neighborhoods that reproduce social and economic isolation as well as racial segregation. However, they have not examined the ways in which these choices are shaped by the intermediary force of the landlord. This paper draws on ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews with 20 landlords and 82 residents in Baltimore, examining their engagement with the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. Findings show that landlords' strategic implementations of voucher rules contribute to residential sorting patterns through a three-step process: first, selection, in which targeted recruitment tactics favor voucher tenants; second, a sorting process in which landlords cherry-pick the lower-end voucher tenants, matching them to hard-torent units; and third, landlords' selective retention of tenants who do not have the means to leave. This results in rigging the game, where a process of "reverse selection" operates: Rather than tenants selecting homes and neighborhoods, landlords are selecting tenants. Taken together, these tactics result in a strategic balkanization of the rental housing market that retains voucher holders where they can be most profitable-in the very neighborhoods policymakers would like to provide them with the opportunity to leave. Landlord tactics serve as a powerful mechanism in the concentration of poverty.

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Rigging the Rules of the Game: How Landlords Geographically Sort Low–Income Renters

2014

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“…Yet, the majority of research on relocations, even relocations into low-poverty neighborhoods, has shown little evidence that health improves 4-5 years after relocation. 1,16,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26] However, it should be noted that one Moving to Opportunity Study (MTO) in New York found declines in distress, 27 and another found declines in obesity 20 for adults moving into low-poverty neighborhoods. Nevertheless, because relocating residents into lowpoverty neighborhoods is expensive and is not a requirement of HOPE VI policy, it is unlikely that the improvements found in MTO will be replicated.…”

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Is Public Housing the Cause of Poor Health or a Safety Net for the Unhealthy Poor?

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Research has shown that public housing residents have the worst health of any population in the USA. However, it is unclear what the cause of that poor health is among this population. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between public housing and health conditions: specifically, we ask if residents entered public housing already ill or if public housing may cause the poor health of its residents. The data used for this study come from the GSU Urban Health Initiative, which is a prospective, mixed-methods study of seven public housing communities earmarked for demolition and relocation (N=385). We used the pre-relocation, baseline survey. We found that, while health was not the main reason residents gave for entering public housing, the majority of public housing residents entered public housing already ill. Substandard housing conditions, long tenure in public housing, and having had a worse living situation prior to public housing were not associated with an increased risk of a health condition diagnosed after entry into public housing. Our findings suggest that public housing may have provided a safety net for the very unhealthy poor.

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“…or assisted housing has been demolished and ''vouchered out'' in favor of mixedincome redevelopment (Popkin, Cunningham, and Burt 2005;Popkin and Cove 2007;Snell and Duncan 2006;Walker 2000, 2007) and in recent desegregation programs (Pashup et al 2005); and (b) limited time, money, transportation, information, and other resources important to effective housing search (Basolo and Nguyen 2006;Pashup et al 2005). Where information for search is concerned, Varady and Walker's (2007) multi-city study of vouchering out found that voucher holders leaving public housing were more likely to find out about available apartments from friends and relatives, newspaper ads, or real estate listings than from housing counselors.…”

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Struggling to stay out of high-poverty neighborhoods: housing choice and locations in moving to opportunity's first decade

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2010

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Participation in a residential mobility program from the client's perspective: Findings from Gautreaux Two

Cited by 48 publications

References 20 publications

Rigging the Rules of the Game: How Landlords Geographically Sort Low–Income Renters

Rigging the Rules of the Game: How Landlords Geographically Sort Low–Income Renters

Is Public Housing the Cause of Poor Health or a Safety Net for the Unhealthy Poor?

Struggling to stay out of high-poverty neighborhoods: housing choice and locations in moving to opportunity's first decade

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