TY - JOUR
T1 - Is subsidized housing in sustainable neighborhoods? Evidence from Chicago
AU - Talen, Emily
AU - Koschinsky, Julia
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the technical expertise of Andrew Winslow and Luc Anselin; assistance with data files and questions from Daniel Block, Richard Block, Dan MacMillen, and Rachel Weber; and financial support from the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation at Arizona State University.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article explores the connection between subsidized housing and sustainable urban form. Given the general disconnect between new market-rate housing in sustainable, walkable neighborhoods and affordable housing opportunities, we expect affordable housing to be located in less sustainable locations in terms of proximity to amenities, walkability, street connectivity, density, and diversity of urban form. A rich set of parcel and planning data for the city of Chicago was used to correlate sustainability indicators with the locations of both project- and tenant-based affordable housing programs. Difference-in-means tests and other descriptive statistical analysis suggest that project-based locations (with the exception of Chicago Housing Authority family units) actually score above average, especially in terms of accessibility and walkability, albeit it at the cost of concentrated poverty, racial segregation, and crime. In contrast, vouchers are located in less sustainable locations when it comes to accessibility and walkability, although they are in neighborhoods with more diversity and less poverty - and, at lower voucher concentrations, with less segregation and crime - than project units.
AB - This article explores the connection between subsidized housing and sustainable urban form. Given the general disconnect between new market-rate housing in sustainable, walkable neighborhoods and affordable housing opportunities, we expect affordable housing to be located in less sustainable locations in terms of proximity to amenities, walkability, street connectivity, density, and diversity of urban form. A rich set of parcel and planning data for the city of Chicago was used to correlate sustainability indicators with the locations of both project- and tenant-based affordable housing programs. Difference-in-means tests and other descriptive statistical analysis suggest that project-based locations (with the exception of Chicago Housing Authority family units) actually score above average, especially in terms of accessibility and walkability, albeit it at the cost of concentrated poverty, racial segregation, and crime. In contrast, vouchers are located in less sustainable locations when it comes to accessibility and walkability, although they are in neighborhoods with more diversity and less poverty - and, at lower voucher concentrations, with less segregation and crime - than project units.
KW - Location
KW - Low-income housing
KW - Neighborhood
KW - Sustainability
KW - Urban planning
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U2 - 10.1080/10511482.2010.533618
DO - 10.1080/10511482.2010.533618
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79957645410
SN - 1051-1482
VL - 21
SP - 1
EP - 28
JO - Housing Policy Debate
JF - Housing Policy Debate
IS - 1
ER -