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Spatial Analysis of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in Cuyahoga County

Brown, David M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243349876

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2009, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Community Planning.
Housing scholars frequently assert that the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments are becoming “mainstream” and moving increasingly into the suburbs (McClure 2006). This is viewed as a positive incursion into fighting poverty concentration and the well documented deprivation economic isolation has on households and neighborhoods. This thesis tests whether the largest federal subsidy program for low-income renters is becoming “mainstream” and moving into the suburbs of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Furthermore, this thesis examines to what extent LIHTC development census tracts contain a disproportionate share of African Americans when compared to renters countywide and to what extent the LIHTC program provides substantive choice and opportunity for low-income households to escape the negative effects of concentrated poverty by moving to low-poverty census tracts. Specifically, as a federal program held to the standards of the Fair Housing Act, is the LIHTC program distributed in a way that fosters substantive housing choice for lower income households or does it reinforce existing patterns of economic and racial/ethnic isolation? This study found that Cuyahoga County’s LIHTC program is not moving into the suburbs in a substantive manner. Furthermore, the LIHTC program may not be acting to further fair housing and is perpetuating existing patterns of segregation and economic isolation. LIHTC neighborhoods, regardless of geography, have become less racially diverse since 1990 and exhibit significant socioeconomic disparities when compared to renters countywide. While this study does not provide a complete picture of the dynamics of the program and its benefits and consequences, it does provide significant insight into what types of neighborhoods LIHTC developments are being located in and their relationship to the urban environment.
David Edelman, PhD (Committee Chair)
Xinhao Wang, PhD (Committee Member)
63 p.
Demographics; Geography; Urban Planning
Spatial Analysis; Low Income Housing Tax Credit; Fair Housing; Poverty Concentration; Economic Isolation

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  • Brown, D. M. (2009). Spatial Analysis of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in Cuyahoga County [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243349876

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brown, David. Spatial Analysis of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in Cuyahoga County. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243349876.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brown, David. "Spatial Analysis of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in Cuyahoga County." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243349876

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