Why Do Housing Mobility Programs Fail in Moving Households to Better Neighborhoods?

Kleit, Rachel Garshick; Kang, Seungbeom; Scally, Corianne Payton

doi:10.1080/10511482.2015.1033440

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“…While renters with more time to plan also searched in the suburbs, the SDAP seemed particularly fitting for families facing a forced move. Recent research examines the role of precarious housing in perpetuating poverty, showing that poor renters whose limited budgets are stretched by a lack of affordable housing face a continual threat of eviction (Desmond 2016) and suggesting that housing instability in general can influence housing mobility outcomes (Kleit et al 2016). Forced moves leave voucher users with little notice to raise the money needed to secure a deposit on new unit, meaning they could lose housing assistance altogether.…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pushing the Boundaries: Searching for Housing in the Most Segregated Metropolis in America

Rosenblatt

Cossyleon

2018

City & Community

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The Housing Choice Voucher Program struggles to assist families in accessing lowpoverty neighborhoods. This paper explores a newly introduced incentive in the voucher program in Milwaukee County that could expand its potential to improve locational outcomes by providing security deposit assistance to households who move to a suburban jurisdiction. Using in-depth interviews we examine the different ways voucher users responded to the program and how it interacted with their life experiences and search strategies. Our interviews highlight the role of housing instability and discrimination, as well as the role of informal search assistance and the appeals voucher users make to persuade landlords to rent to them. Our study speaks to the limits of "nudge"-like policy incentives and emphasizes how choices about moving are influenced not only by incentives but also by a stratified housing market. We conclude with policy suggestions based on our findings that could make suburban searches more promising for voucher holders.

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Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

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Pushing the Boundaries: Searching for Housing in the Most Segregated Metropolis in America

Rosenblatt

Cossyleon

2018

City & Community

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“…Residential mobility decision-making is a complex process, and it can be regarded as a function of utility maximization and rational choices on the basis of cost-benefit calculations about a households' needs and preferences [33,34]. Therefore, the tenants will more likely exit from the PRH units and enter the private rental housing market if the mobility would make their housing consumption better.…”

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Simulating the Barriers of Transaction Costs to Public Rental Housing Exits: The Case of Wuhan, China

Ning

Sun

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to explore and simulate the barriers of transaction costs to public rental housing (PRH) exits in China. The two-period model of household consumption utility, with the constraints of transaction costs, is employed to conduct our analysis. The overall results show that if transaction costs go beyond the tenants' ability to afford them, the tenants will continue to live in the current PRH units, resulting in an obstruction of PRH exits. When the rent ratio in the two periods is higher than 1 and continues to rise, a higher proportion of transaction costs for household consumption contributes to a greater impeding effect, so the barriers' effect with regards to concurrent changes in rent and income is similar to that of changes only in rent. We observe a close relationship between the acceptable maximum transaction costs and the variety of housing rents. If the tenants cannot afford the maximum transaction cost or housing rent in the private market, they will stop searching for a more advantageous housing and will prefer living in the current PRH units. Moreover, the proportion of maximum acceptable transaction costs does not vary with the changes in the expected household income; income growth only increases the absolute value of transaction costs, not the relative one. Therefore, the government should not only provide housing search services to help tenants leave the public rental sector, but should also adjust the supply of affordable housing for households with housing stress.

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“…Residential instability might be a potential indicator of homelessness. It includes a broad spectrum of housing-related problems, such as being severely cost-burdened, living in overcrowded or doubled-up residences (i.e., living with friends or family to decrease costs), and frequent residential moves, all of which low-income renter households may experience before becoming homeless [ 3 , 12 , 13 ]. The concept of residential instability is commonly used to indicate housing situations among those struggling just before homelessness.…”

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Effects of Residential Instability of Renters on Their Perceived Health Status: Findings from the Korean Welfare Panel Study

Park

wonseok

2020

IJERPH

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Identifying the impact of housing instability on the health status of renters with relatively high economic difficulties is important for the improvement of renters’ quality of life and their social security. Accordingly, this study adopted a panel data regression approach to examine the associations between residential instability and perceived health status—including physical and mental health—using 14 waves (2006–2019) of longitudinal data collected by the Korean Welfare Panel Study. The results showed that residential instability significantly affected perceived health status, and renters who experienced residential instability perceived worse health status and had more severe depression than those who did not experience residential instability. Moreover, failure to meet the minimum housing standard worsened depression in renters. Despite assistance benefits from the government, permanent rental housing and the national basic living security were also factors that worsened depression. Dissatisfaction with one’s residential environment and social relationships were also associated with increased depression. We recommend that the overall quality of housing welfare services, including a focus on the mental health of low-income renters, be improved by expanding the range of services, increasing the number of professional housing welfare workers, and supplying community facilities for increasing residential and social relationship satisfactions.

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Why Do Housing Mobility Programs Fail in Moving Households to Better Neighborhoods?

Cited by 37 publications

References 54 publications

Pushing the Boundaries: Searching for Housing in the Most Segregated Metropolis in America

Pushing the Boundaries: Searching for Housing in the Most Segregated Metropolis in America

Simulating the Barriers of Transaction Costs to Public Rental Housing Exits: The Case of Wuhan, China

Effects of Residential Instability of Renters on Their Perceived Health Status: Findings from the Korean Welfare Panel Study

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