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Author: Freedman, Matthew

Title: Low-Income Housing Development and Crime

Summary: This paper examines the effect of rental housing development subsidized by the government’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program on local crime. We take advantage of changes in the formula used to determine the eligibility of census tracts for Qualified Census Tract (QCT) status, which affects the size of the tax credits developers receive for building low income housing. QCT status attracts real estate development from other parts of the county, differentially improving the housing stock in the poorest census tracts. Low-income housing development, and the associated revitalization of neighborhoods, brings with it significant reductions in violent crime that are measurable at the county level. There are no detectable effects on property crime, perhaps because of changes in reporting behavior among residents.

Details: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2011. 55p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 12, 2011 at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~raphael/IGERT/Workshop/Matt%20Friedman%20-%20Fall%202010.pdf

Year: 2011

Country: United States

URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~raphael/IGERT/Workshop/Matt%20Friedman%20-%20Fall%202010.pdf

Shelf Number: 122725

Keywords:
Low-Income Housing
Neighborhoods and Crime
Urban Renewal (U.S.)