Low-income housing development and crime

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• 作者：Matthew Freedman^a ; ^{mf439@cornell.edu"" rel=""nofollow} ; Emily G. Owens^b ; ^{ego5@cornell.edu"" rel=""nofollow}
• 关键词：Low-income housing ; Crime ; Gentrification ; Tax credits
• 刊名：Journal of Urban Economics
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：September-November 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：70
• 期：2-3
• 页码：115-131
• 全文大小：859 K

文摘

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.