Publications Tagged ‘subsidized housing’
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Book
How to House the Homeless LINK
Homelessness is one of the most troubling and persistent social problems in the United States, yet experts can neither agree on its root causes nor on how to eradicate it. Is homelessness the result of individual life conditions, such as poverty, addiction, or mental illness, or is there simply not enough affordable housing? And which services are the most successful? In How to House the Homeless, editors Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O’Flaherty propose that the answers entail rethinking how housing markets operate and developing more efficient interventions in existing service programs. The book critically reassesses where we are now, analyzes the most promising policies and programs going forward, and offers a new agenda for future research.
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Brendan O'Flaherty. July 2010.
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Working Paper
Can Homeownership Transform Communities? Evidence on the Impact of Subsidized, Owner-Occupied Housing Investments on the Quality of Local Schools PDF
While recent evidence demonstrates that subsidized investments in owneroccupied housing can lead to increases in property values (Schwartz et al. 2006), the impact of such housing on other community amenities is largely unexamined. Yet, the response of local services to public investments is crucial for policy-makers and community development practitioners who view increasing subsidized homeownership as a mechanism to improve urban neighborhoods. Drawing on evidence from New York City, we examine the impact of subsidized housing on the quality of local schools by studying exogenous variation in city investments in owner and rental units. Specifically, we explore whether – and in what ways – publicly financed investments in owner- or renter-occupied housing made in the late 1980s and 1990s by the City of New York affected the characteristics and performance of local public schools. Our results suggest that the completion of subsidized, owner-occupied housing is associated with a decrease in schools’ percentage of free lunch eligible students, an increase in schools’ percentage of white students, and controlling for these compositional changes, a positive change in pass rates on standardized reading and math exams.
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Colin Chellman, Brian J. McCabe, Amy Ellen Schwartz, & Leanna Stiefel. October 2009.
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Chapter
Spillovers and Subsidized Housing: The Impact of Subsidized Rental Housing on Neighborhoods LINK
Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock, concentrated poverty, and exposure to health hazards in the home. These challenges can be costly and difficult to address. The time is ripe for fresh, authoritative analysis of this important yet often overlooked sector.
Ingrid Gould Ellen. Revisiting Rental Housing (Brookings Institution Press). December 2008.
affordable housing, neighborhoods, renters, subsidized housing
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Working Paper
No Renters in My Suburban Backyard: Land Use Regulation and the Rental Housing Market in MA PDF
For several decades, academics and policymakers have argued that the ability of low- and moderate-income families to move into desirable suburban areas is constrained by the high cost of housing in those areas. Local zoning ordinances and other forms of land use regulation are believed to contribute to increased housing prices by reducing supply and increasing the size and quality of new housing. Restrictions on rental housing in particular are likely to reduce prospects of mobility for low- and moderate-income families. In this paper, I employ an instrumental variables approach to examine the effects of regulations on the quantity and price of rental housing in Massachusetts, using historical municipal characteristics to instrument for current regulations. Results suggest that communities with less restrictive zoning issue significantly more building permits for multifamily housing but do not have significantly lower rents. The lack of differences in rents across communities may reflect spillover effects and regional supply constraints. The analysis of rents may also be confounded by the thinness of the rental market and development of subsidized housing under the state’s affordable housing law.
Schuetz, Jenny. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. June 2007.
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Working Paper
The Impact of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Housing on Surrounding Neighborhoods: Evidence from NYC PDF
In this report, we examine the neighborhood impact of low income housing tax credit developments in New York City, where 42,077 units of LIHTC housing were newly constructed or rehabilitated between 1987 and 2003.
Ellen, Ingrid Gould and Ioan Voicu. May 2007.
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Working Paper
The Impact of Subsidized Housing Investment on New York City’s Neighborhoods PDF
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. July 2006.
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Working Paper
Housing Policy in New York City: A Brief History PDF
This policy brief aims to tell the story of housing policy in New York City over the past 30 years or so. The first section describes the city’s unprecedented efforts to rebuild its housing stock during the late 1980s and 1990s. The second section analyzes the specific features of the city’s Ten Year Plan that made these efforts so successful. The third section then discusses the city’s current housing environment and the policy challenges it presents.
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. April 2006.
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Article
Nonprofit Housing and Neighborhood Spillovers PDF
Nonprofit organizations play a critical role in U.S. housing policy, a role typically justified by the claim that their housing investments produce significant neighborhood spillover benefits. However, little work has actually been done to measure these impacts on neighborhoods. This paper compares the neighborhood spillover effects of city-supported rehabilitation of rental housing undertaken by nonprofit and for-profit developers, using data from New York City.
Ellen, Ingrid Gould, Ioan Voicu. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25(1). December 2005.
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Working Paper
The Utilization of Rental Housing Assistance By Immigrants in the United States and New York City
Friedman, Samantha, Michael H. Schill, and Emily Rosenbaum. Housing Policy Debate, (1999). July 2005.
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Working Paper
Does Federally Subsidized Rental Housing Depress Neighborhood Property Values? PDF
Few communities welcome subsidized housing, with one of the most commonly voiced fears being reductions in property values. Yet there is little empirical evidence that subsidized housing depresses neighborhood property values. This paper estimates and compares the neighborhood impacts of a broad range of federally-subsidized, rental housing programs, using rich data for New York City and a difference-in-difference specification of a hedonic regression model.
Ellen, Ingrid Gould, Michael H. Schill, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Ioan Voicu. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 26, No. 2, (Spring 2007). March 2005.
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Working Paper
The External Effects of Place-Based Subsidized Housing PDF
Prior research has provided little evidence that subsidized housing investments generate significant external benefits to their neighborhoods.This paper revisits the external effects of subsidized housing, exploring the case of New York City. Relying on geocoded administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-difference specification of a hedonic regression model.
Schwartz, Amy Ellen, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Michael H. Schill, and Ioan Voicu. Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 36, No. 6. (November 2006). February 2005.
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Chapter
The Role of Cities in Providing Housing Assistance: A New York Perspective LINK
Schill, Michael H., Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Ioan Voicu. City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer (Edward Elger Press). December 2003.
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Article
Housing Production Subsidies and Neighborhood Revitalization: New York City’s Ten Year Capital LINK
A perennial question in housing policy concerns the form that housing assistance should take. Although some argue that housing assistance should be thought of as a form of income support and advocate direct cash grants to needy households, others favor earmarked assistance—but they differ over whether subsidies should be given to the recipients as vouchers or to developers as production subsidies.
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Michael Schill, and Ioan Voicu. Economic Policy Review (Federal Reserve Bank of New York). June 2003.
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Working Paper
Estimating the External Effects of Subsidized Housing Investment on Property Values LINK
Although housing investment is often promoted as a tool for neighborhood improvement, prior empirical research has failed to provide convincing evidence that subsidized housing investment generates significant external effects. This paper revisits the external effects of subsidized housing investment. With the benefit of a very rich dataset, we use a difference-in-difference specification of a hedonic regression model to estimate the spillover effects of publicly-assisted housing units produced under the New York City Ten Year Plan program.
Schwartz, Amy Ellen, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Ioan Voicu, and Michael H. Schill. Federal Reserve Board, Proceedings, (2003) (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy). April 2003.
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Chapter
Regulatory Barriers to Housing Development in the United States LINK
Nothing provides as much material for comparative legal study as the great variety of rule-making that characterizes land law. Land law is perhaps the only legal area in which the leveling march of globalized uniformity has had to yield to the progressive development of local customary law.
Schill, Michael H., Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Ioan Voicu. Land Law in Comparative Perspective (Aspen Publishers). September 2002.
affordable housing, housing prices, land use, neighborhoods, subsidized housing
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Article
Building Homes, Reviving Neighborhoods PDF
Ellen, Ingrid Gould, Michael H. Schill, Scott Susin, and Amy Ellen Schwartz. Journal of Housing Research, 12 (2), pp. 185-216. June 2001.
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Article
The Redevelopment of Distressed Public Housing: Early Results from HOPE VI Projects PDF
The redevelopment of distressed public housing under the Urban Revitalization Demonstration Program, or HOPE VI, has laudable social, physical, community, and economic goals. Three public housing projects in Atlanta, Chicago, and San Antonio demonstrate the complexity and trade-offs of trying to lessen the concentration of low-income households, leverage private resources, limit project costs, help residents achieve economic self-sufficiency, design projects that blend into the community, and ensure meaningful resident participation in project planning.
Salama, Jerry J. Housing Policy Debate, 10 (1), pp. 95-142. December 1998.
affordable housing, neighborhoods, public housing, subsidized housing