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

Briggs, Xavier de Souza; Comey, Jennifer; Weismann, Gretchen

doi:10.1080/10511481003788745

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“…The MTO experiment operated in cities with low vacancy rates, defined as the shares of available rental units at a particular time. However, four of the MTO cities had lower vacancy rates compared to the national average in 1990 (approximately 8%), and across the study period vacancy rates for all five cities dropped even lower (Briggs, Comey, and Weismann 2010). For instance, by the end of the decade in 2000, vacancy rates in greater Boston, New York, and LA were 3-4% (Briggs, Comey, and Weismann 2010).…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Across the five MTO sites, the majority of those who leased up in the voucher treatment groups moved to the outer ring of the central city (over two-thirds) or inner suburbs (Briggs, Comey, and Weismann 2010). Counterintuitively, in our study, average effects on violent crime rates and other objective neighborhood quality indicators for the low-poverty group were larger in LA and New York, despite a tighter housing market, i.e., a backdrop of possibly more limited housing options, than in the other sites.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Concurrently, across all five cities, rents rose during this period. For example, from 1990 to 2005, inflation-adjusted rents rose in New York City by 23% (Briggs, Comey, and Weismann 2010). This suggests that in all five cities, the period in which MTO operated would have been a hard time for low-income families to find affordable units in low-poverty neighborhoods.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There were proportionally fewer census tracts with poverty rates less than 20% in LA and New York (only 67% of neighborhoods in LA, and 63% of neighborhoods in New York, had poverty rates under 20%, respectively) than in the three other MTO cities (85-90% of tracts) (Briggs, Comey, and Weismann 2010). Additionally, the HOPE VI program was implemented in different magnitudes across the five cities.…”

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

Nguyen

Acevedo‐García

Schmidt

et al. 2016

Housing Policy Debate

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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.

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Section: Place Characteristics Of the Five Mto Sitesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Place Characteristics Of the Five Mto Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Place Characteristics Of the Five Mto Sitesmentioning

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

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Schmidt

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Housing Policy Debate

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“…However, to the extent that poor health prevents individuals from improving their neighborhood conditions, selection is a substantively important process (22) that may present actionable opportunities for advancing policy objectives, such as improving locational outcomes for low-income families and combating concentrated poverty (23,24). Furthermore, if health problems increase the chance of living in a poor area, which in turn causes health problems, direct health-related investments could be needed to achieve both health improvements and urban policy objectives.…”

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Role of health in predicting moves to poor neighborhoods among Hurricane Katrina survivors

Arcaya

Subramanian

Rhodes

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Significance Although neighborhood outcomes and health may influence each other reciprocally, existing studies overwhelmingly focus on neighborhood effects on health. Health’s influence on neighborhood is largely viewed as a nuisance that may bias neighborhood effects estimates. However, if health shapes whether individuals attain better neighborhoods, understanding selection processes may advance both health and urban policy objectives. We follow a socially vulnerable cohort of Hurricane Katrina survivors from 2003–2010 and find that although health was not associated with neighborhood poverty before the disaster, those with pre-Katrina health problems ended up living in poorer neighborhoods years after the storm. Understanding whether and how poor health impedes poverty deconcentration efforts may help inform programs and policies designed to help low-income families move into—and stay in—higher opportunity neighborhoods.

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Neighborhood Typology and Cardiometabolic Pregnancy Outcomes in the Maternal Adiposity Metabolism and Stress Study

Headen

Laraia

Coleman‐Phox

et al. 2018

Obesity

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Objective This study aimed to assess associations between neighborhood typologies classified across multiple neighborhood domains and cardiometabolic pregnancy outcomes and determine variation in effectiveness of a mindfulness‐based stress‐reduction intervention on outcomes across neighborhood types. Methods Neighborhoods of participants in the Maternal Adiposity Metabolism and Stress (MAMAS) intervention (n = 208) were classified across dimensions of socioeconomic, food, safety, and service/resource environments using latent class analysis. The study estimated associations between neighborhood type and three cardiometabolic pregnancy outcomes—glucose tolerance (GT) during pregnancy, excessive gestational weight gain, and 6‐month postpartum weight retention (PPWR)—using marginal regression models. Interaction between neighborhood type and intervention was assessed. Results Five neighborhood types differing across socioeconomic, food, and resource environments were identified. Compared with poor, well‐resourced neighborhoods, middle‐income neighborhoods with low resources had higher risk of impaired GT (relative risk [RR]: 4.1; 95% confidence Interval [CI]: 1.1, 15.5), and wealthy, well‐resourced neighborhoods had higher PPWR (beta: 3.9 kg; 95% CI: 0.3, 7.5). Intervention effectiveness varied across neighborhood type with wealthy, well‐resourced and poor, moderately resourced neighborhoods showing improvements in GT scores. PPWR was higher in intervention compared with control groups within wealthy, well‐resourced neighborhoods. Conclusions Consideration of multidimensional neighborhood typologies revealed important nuances in intervention effectiveness on cardiometabolic pregnancy outcomes.

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

Cited by 41 publications

References 63 publications

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

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

Role of health in predicting moves to poor neighborhoods among Hurricane Katrina survivors

Neighborhood Typology and Cardiometabolic Pregnancy Outcomes in the Maternal Adiposity Metabolism and Stress Study

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