Housing Choice Voucher Marketing Opportunity Index: Analysis of Data at the Tract and Block Group Level

摘要

The proposed research design draws upon significant research on poverty deconcentration efforts with the HCV program to form the basis constructing an index or housing opportunity across all census tracts in the United States and Puerto Rico. Among the goals of housing mobility programs is the deconcentration of poverty (Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2006). Deconcentration is valuable in that it can reduce the high concentrations of poverty that create distress within the affected neighborhoods. As households are moved from areas of high poverty concentration to areas of low concentration, it is hoped that additional benefits will accrue. These include providing the households with access to better employment, education, and shopping opportunities in addition to access to better quality housing in better neighborhoods.