Published: 2019 | Office of Congressman Earl Blumenaur
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: Past Achievements, Future Challenges
Published: 2018 | Corianne Payton Scally, Amanda Gold, Carl Hedman, Matthew Gerken, Nicole DuBois | Urban League Abstract Despite the housing affordability challengesmany low-income renters face, most government resources for preserving and building affordable rental housing have declined. This stagnation…
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: How It Works and Who It Serves
Published: 2018 | Corianne Payton Scally, Amanda Gold, Nicole DuBois | Urban League Abstract The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is a complex but crucial tool for the production and preservation of affordable rental housing. Through this program, private investors…
Why Buy a Home? Race, Ethnicity, and Homeownership Preferences in the United States
Published: 2018 | Brian J. McCabe | SAGE Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Abstract There are many reasons why Americans prefer homeownership to renting. Owning a home can serve as a vehicle for economic mobility or a marker of status…
Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated by Income?
Published: 2016 | Michael C. Lens and Paavo Monkkonen | American Planning Association Journal Abstract Income segregation has risen in each of the last four decades in U.S. metropolitan areas, which can have lifelong impacts on the health, economic productivity,…
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children:New Evidence From the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Published: 2015 | Raj Chetty, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathaniel Hendren | Nation Bureau of Economic Research Abstract The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We…
Density Zoning and Class Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Published: 2013 | Jonathan T. Rothwell and Douglas S. Massey Abstract Objectives—Socioeconomic segregation rose substantially in U.S. cities during the final decades of the 20th century and we argue zoning regulations are an important cause for this increase. Methods—We measure…
The Effect of Density Zoning on Racial Segregation in U.S. Urban Areas
Published: 2009 | Jonathan Rothwell and Douglas Massey Abstract We argue that anti-density zoning increases black residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas by reducing the quantity of affordable housing in white jurisdictions. Drawing on census data and local regulation indicators…
Whiteness as Property
Published: 2006 | Cheryl I. Harris | UCLA School of Law Research Paper Abstract Issues regarding race and racial identity as well as questions pertaining to property rights and ownership have been prominent in much public discourse in the United…
An Economic History of Zoning and a Cure for Its Exclusionary Effects
Published: 2001 | William A. Fischel | Urban Studies Abstract I outline the twentieth-century history of American zoning to explain how homeowners came to dominate its content and administration in most jurisdictions. Zoning’s original purpose was to protect homeowners in…