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Moving to Opportunity, or Aging in Place? The Changing Profile of Low Income and Subsidized Households and Where They Live

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ID6403936
AuthorsVincent J Reina (0000-0001-7638-0079, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, corresponding author), Claudia Aiken (0000-0002-2375-5751, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Year2022
Volume58
Issue2
Pages454-492
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1078087420969895
OpenAlexW3096728512
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited59

The profile of households receiving rental assistance has changed over time, yet much of the policy and political dialogue surrounding rental assistance has not. Understanding the changing profile of subsidized households is important to evaluating the role of rental subsidies, particularly in the context of neighborhood access. This paper analyzes how the composition of subsidized households has changed over time, and how this relates to existing measures of neighborhood opportunity. We find that since 2000, the share of subsidized households headed by seniors grew, while the share with children dropped. In particular, households using vouchers used to be young relative to the general population and to households in other housing subsidy programs but have aged rapidly. We also find that current neighborhood amenity measures do not reflect these changes, and we use a national analysis and a case study of southeastern Pennsylvania to test alternative metrics

Amenity · Business · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Public economics · Renting · Sociology · Subsidized housing · Subsidy · Voucher · Demography · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Finance

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Unique citing works10
Citations per year2,5
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
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