Low-income housing development and crime

被引：87

作者：

Freedman, Matthew ^{[2
]}

Owens, Emily G. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Cornell Univ, Dept Policy Anal & Management, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[2] Cornell Univ, Dept Labor Econ, ILR Sch, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS | 2011年 / 70卷 / 2-3期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Low-income housing; Crime; Gentrification; Tax credits;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jue.2011.04.001

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper examines the effect of rental housing development subsidized by the federal government's Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program on local crime. Under the LIHTC program, certain high-poverty census tracts receive Qualified Census Tract (QCT) status, which affects the size of the tax credits developers receive for building low-income housing. Changes in federal rules determining QCT status generate quasi-experimental variation in the location of LIHTC projects. Exploiting this variation, we find that low-income housing development in the poorest neighborhoods brings with it significant reductions in violent crime that are measurable at the county level. There are no detectable effects on property crime. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：115 / 131

页数：17

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