What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?
Please join the NYU Furman Center for a lunchtime presentation on:
What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?
with
Dionissi Aliprantis
Senior Research Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Abstract. There is currently interest in crafting public housing policy that combats, rather than contributes to, the residential segregation in American cities. One such policy is the Housing Mobility Program (HMP), which aims to help people move from disinvested neighborhoods to ones with more opportunities. This paper studies how design features influence the success of HMPs in reducing racial segregation. We find that the choice of neighborhood opportunity index used to define the opportunity areas to which participants are encouraged to move has limited influence on HMP success.
In contrast, we find that three design features have large effects on HMP success: 1) whether the geographic scope is confined to the central city or is implemented as a metro-level partnership; 2) whether the eligibility criteria are race-based, race-conscious, or race-neutral; and 3) whether tenant counseling, tenant search assistance, and landlord outreach are successful in relaxing rental housing supply constraints.
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About the Presenter:
Dionissi Aliprantis is a Senior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. His research is focused on human capital formation, racial inequality, and neighborhood effects. He has written papers focused on identifying neighborhood effects, understanding how landlords and wealth influence neighborhood sorting, and studying the implications of dynamics for neighborhoods and the racial wealth gap.
Aliprantis is interested in translating research into practice. He has spent years implementing university programs that support local public schools, using math to build community and foster creativity among middle and high school students. He also works with Cleveland's Promise Neighborhood Initiative.
Aliprantis received a BS in mathematics and a BA in economics and Spanish from Indiana University in 2004, and a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010.
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