Neighborhood characteristics and the location of HUD-subsidized housing in shrinking cities

An analysis to inform anchor-based urban revitalization strategies

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Professor and associate professor of urban planning Robert Silverman and Li Yin along with associate professor of social work Kelly Patterson and urban planning PhD student Laiyun Wu focus on the manner in which affordable housing fits into anchor-based strategies for urban revitalization.

Involving quantitative analysis of the location of existing HUD-subsidized housing in relation to neighborhood characteristics, the goal of the article is twofold. First, it examines the degree to which neighborhood characteristics associated with neighborhoods of opportunity correlate with the location of HUD-subsidized housing in shrinking cities. Second, it makes recommendations for more equitable approaches to anchor-based urban revitalization. Their analysis uses a unique database developed to measure neighborhood characteristics in shrinking US cities. Their findings suggest that the location of affordable housing is not correlated with proximity to institutional and neighborhood amenities, where anchor-based revitalization is targeted. As a result, they make recommendations to link future affordable housing siting to anchor-based strategies for inner-city revitalization.

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Authors

Robert Silverman
Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UB

Kelly Patterson
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work, UB

Li Yin
Associate Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UB

Liyun Wu
PhD Student
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UB

Publisher

Community Development

Date Published

2015