A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudine Gay (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-70 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087415620053 |
| OpenAlex | W4255931223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
Millions of Americans live in communities without an adequate supply of affordable housing. The governmental response to the crisis has focused on subsidies to private developers who build below-market housing, with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) at the center of this effort. Although federally funded, the LIHTC program grants states wide latitude in distributing billions of dollars of tax credits annually. Do state officials exploit this discretion to channel housing subsidies to geographic constituencies for political ends? Drawing on 20 years of LIHTC administrative data, I test whether electoral support for the state’s governing party predicts the level of tax credit investment directed to an area. The analysis reveals a modest relationship between partisan loyalty and housing investment, conditional on the partisan and institutional contexts. Democratic governors steer tax credits to areas of core support, but only where the governor exercises a high level of control over the state’s LIHTC-allocating agency
Affordable housing · Business · Discretion · Economic growth · Economics · Investment (military · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Subsidized housing · Subsidy · Tax credit · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Finance
A Neighborhood-Level Analysis of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in the State of California and Los Angeles County
Is affordable housing a pro‐poor policy? Evidence from a prominent housing policy in Iran
Exploring the Relationship Between Housing Downturns and Partisan Elections
Politics in affordable housing provision
Housing Prices and Government Approval
The effects of low income housing tax credit developments on neighborhoods
Party Control of State Government and the Distribution of Public Expenditures
Political Representation
Affluence and Influence
Electoral goals and center-state transfers
The Political Economy of Benefits and Costs
Exchange Theory, Political Parties, and the Allocation of Federal Distributive Benefits in the House of Representatives
The Congressional Pork Barrel in a Republican Era
The Electoral Benefits of Distributive Spending
The Distributive Politics of “Compassion in Action
Deficits, Democrats, and Distributive Benefits
Who Benefits from Distributive Politics? How the Outcome One Studies Affects the Answer One Gets
Fiscal Consistency and Federal District Spending in Congressional Elections
Political Parties and the Distribution of Federal Outlays
Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market
Pork‐Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953–94
Testing Models of Distributive Politics using Exit Polls to Measure Voters’ Preferences and Partisanship
The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending
The Influence of Federal Spending on Presidential Elections
On the Vote-Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |