Urban Housing Policy

Grigsby, William G.; Rosenburg, Louis

doi:10.4324/9781351300568

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“…This is consistent with 'classic' studies of inner-city landlords (Sternlieb 1966;Stegman 1972;Sternlieb and Burchell 1973;Grigsby and Rosenburg 1975). Consequently, this makes it difficult for them to deal with tenants exhibiting various forms of problematic behavior, such as drug dealing, substance abuse, and violent crime.…”

Section: Conclusion: Housing Choice Vouchers and Landlord Outreachsupporting

confidence: 72%

“…However, both of these options may be difficult for landlords with smaller operations due to limited financial resources even when units are being rented (Stegman 1972;Sternlieb and Burchell 1973). The existence of these options further highlights the varying levels of sophistication among landlords found by Grigsby and Rosenburg (1975).…”

Section: Landlord Financial Burden and Problem Tenantsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Four 'classic' inner city landlord studies from the 1960s and early 1970s (Grigsby and Rosenburg 1975;Stegman 1972;Sternlieb 1966;Sternlieb and Burchell 1973) challenged the stereotype of low-income landlords as 'slumlords'. Most low-income landlords owned few properties and most were rank amateurs in that they knew little about real estate finance, taxation, or governmental programs (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…code enforcement, federally funded rehabilitation grants and loans), partly because official housing institutions were not effective in providing relevant information to low-income landlords. Grigsby and Rosenburg (1975) provided a nuanced perspective on inner city landlords emphasizing neighborhood decay as the primary cause of disinvestment, but that poor management by landlords was a contributing factor as well. Small-scale owners, many of whom were casual investors generally did not know how to implement housing maintenance work efficiently, partly because of a lack of information and a lack of effective assistance from municipal authorities and larger housing institutions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How to attract more landlords to the housing choice voucher program: a case study of landlord outreach efforts

Varady

Jaroscak²,

Kleinhans

2016

Urban Research & Practice

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Since 1980, the focus of American housing policy has shifted away from project-based to tenant-based subsidies, i.e. the Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP). Yet many HCVP recipients have remained in high-poverty and high-minority areas of central cities. To improve the effectiveness of HCVP in expanding residential choices, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is encouraging local public housing authorities to utilize a variety of techniques to provide more opportunity for voucher recipients to move to low poverty areas including meetings with current or prospective owners, owners' newsletters, owner fairs, program videos and direct contact with owners. Although there has been a considerable body of research on voucher recipients in the Gautreaux and Moving to Opportunity programs, two special housing voucher programs, there has been little research on the effectiveness of landlord outreach efforts as part of the regular HCVP. We therefore conducted a case study of landlord outreach efforts currently being implemented by the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority. We combined observation of landlord outreach events with semi-structured interviews to determine reasons why landlords do or do not participate, landlords' perceptions on the extent to which HCVP addresses their concerns, what they take away from these events, and how outreach efforts might be improved. This case study indicates that there is considerable room for improvement in landlord outreach efforts by the housing authority. The policy implications for HUD as well as public housing authorities across the United States are discussed.

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Section: Conclusion: Housing Choice Vouchers and Landlord Outreachsupporting

confidence: 72%

Section: Landlord Financial Burden and Problem Tenantsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How to attract more landlords to the housing choice voucher program: a case study of landlord outreach efforts

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Jaroscak²,

Kleinhans

2016

Urban Research & Practice

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“…After the industrial revolution, the new societies tended to associate the urban planning process with some standards of the life quality. See, for examples (Eckersley, 2000), (Rezvani et al, 2012), (Spinney et al, 2009), (Barton & Tsourou, 2013), (Preuss & Vemuri, 2004), (Marquez & Smith, 1999), (Seongyeon, 2005), and (Grigsby & Rosenburg, 2012) who discussed concerning the mutual effects of urban planning and the urban life quality. Recently, some scholars have considered only the impact of the climate change, but not all urban life quality indicators, in the process of urban planning.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%