The authors examine the locational patterns of three subsidized housing programs—conventional project-based, section 8 assisted rental, and shelter plus care supported housing for the severely mentally ill and homeless—in Phoenix, Arizona. They demonstrate that these programs are reinforcing the existing concentrations of the three types of subsidized housing in some Phoenix neighborhoods. The findings for Phoenix suggest that voucher and certificate policies designed to deconcentrate the poor are not achieving some of their major objectives. Indeed, the policies pursued by different providers of subsidized housing may cumulatively lead to increasing concentrations of all such housing in tracts that are already compromised by concentrations of the urban poor.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Austin, D.1997. Federal housing policy 97. Shelterforce, January/February, 12-29.
2.
Barton, S.1996. Social housing versus housing allowances: Choosing between two forms of housing subsidy at the local level. Journal of the American Planning Association62: 108-119.
3.
Bickford, A. , and D. Massey. 1991. Segregation in the second ghetto: Racial and ethnic segregation in American public housing, 1977. Social Forces69: 1011-1036.
4.
Bratt, R.1994. The role of HUD in housing and community development systems. Working paper, National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, DC.
5.
Coulibaly, M. , R. Green, and D. James. 1998. Segregation in federally subsidized low-income housing in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger.
6.
Fuchs, E. , and W. McAllister. 1996. The continuum of care: A report on the new federal policy to address homelessness. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
7.
Goering, J. , A. Haghighi, H. Stebbins, and M. Siewert. 1995. Promoting housing choice in HUD’s rental assistance program. HUD-PDR-1543. Washington, DC: Department of Housing and Urban Development.
8.
Goering, J. , A. Kanely, and T. Richardson. 1997. Recent research on racial segregation and poverty concentration in public housing in the United States. Urban Affairs Review32: 723-745.
9.
Hartung, J. , and J. Henig. 1997. Housing vouchers and certificates as a vehicle for deconcentrating the poor: Evidence from the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Urban Affairs Review32: 403-419.
10.
Holloway, S. , D. Bryan, R. Chabot, D. Rogers, and J. Rulli, 1998. Exploring the effect of public housing on the concentration of poverty in Columbus, Ohio. Urban Affairs Review33: 767-789.
11.
Jargowsky, P. A.1994. Ghetto poverty among blacks in the 1980s. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management13 (2): 288-310.
12.
Judd, D. R.1997. The role of governmental policies in promoting residential segregation in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Journal of Negro Education66: 214-240.
13.
Kirvo, L. J. , and R. D. Peterson. 1996. Extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods and urban crime. Social Forces75: 1-25.
14.
Massey, D. S. , and N. A. Denton. 1993. American apartheid: Segregation and the making of the underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
15.
Massey, D. S. , and S. M. Kanaiaupuni. 1993. Public housing and the concentration of poverty. Social Science Quarterly74: 109-121.
16.
Nenno, M.1997. Changes and challenges in affordable housing and urban development. In Affordable housing and urban development in the United States, 1-22. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
17.
Ridgeway, P. , and A. Zipple. 1990. The paradigm shift in residential services: From the linear continuum to supported housing approaches. Psychosocial Journal13: 11-31.
18.
Schill, M. , and S. Wachter. 1995. The spatial bias of federal housing law and policy: Concentrated poverty in America. University of Pennsylvania Law Review143: 1285-1349.
19.
Uehara, E.1994. Race, gender, and housing inequality: An exploration of the correlates of low-quality housing among clients diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness. Journal of Health and Social Behavior36: 309-321.
20.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . 1994. The homeless mentally ill: Service needs of the population. Rockville, MD: National Institute of Mental Health.
21.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development . 1995. Supportive housing application: Moving toward a continuum of care. HUD Document No. HUD-40076 (2/95). Washington, DC: Author.
22.
Wilson, W. J.1987. The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass, and public policy. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
