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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.71,P.115-131

语言

英文

关键字

K42;R23;R31;R51;Low-income housing;Crime;Gentrification;Tax credits

作者单位

Cornell University, Department of Labor Economics, ILR School, 266 Ives Faculty Building, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff2;Cornell University, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, 137 MVR, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States"}]},{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1;Cornell University, Department of Labor Economics, ILR School, 266 Ives Faculty Building, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States"}]},"aff2":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff2;Cornell University, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, 137 MVR, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States"}]}},"correspondences":{"cor1":{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1

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.