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Title: Transportation Access, Residential Location, and Economic Opportunity: Evidence From Two Housing Voucher Experiments

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Access to automobiles may be particularly important to housing voucher recipients, who are more likely than residents of public housing to live in suburban neighborhoods where transit service is often limited. Access to high-quality public transit is more likely to benefit low-income households who live in dense central-city neighborhoods in close proximity to employment. In this analysis we draw on survey data from two housing voucher experimentsthe Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing and Welfare-toWork Voucher programsto examine the relationship between access to automobiles and public transit and the employment and earnings outcomes of program participants. Our research underscores the importance of automobiles in achieving desirable outcomes for families who receive subsidized housing. Access to automobiles is associated with improved economic outcomes for all program participants and better facilitates job acquisition, job retention, and earnings than public transit. Our findings suggest the need to better link housing and transportation programs and to pursue a set of policies that increase automobile access among all subsidized housing recipients.

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Authors: Blumenberg, Evelyn; Pierce, Gregory

Periodical (Full): Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research

Issue: 2

Volume: 17

Pages: 89-111

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation

Countries: United States