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Homeownership, community interactions, and segregation

Author:	Hoff, Karla; Sen, Arijit;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3316
Country:	United States;	Date Stored:	2004/07/26
Document Date:	2004/05/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	Rest Of The World
Report Number:	WPS3316	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Governance Indicators; Economic Theory & Research; Education and Society; Housing & Human Habitats; Community Development and Empowerment
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: The authors consider a multi-community city where community quality is linked to residents' civic efforts, such as being proactive in preventing crime and ensuring the quality of publicly provided goods. Homeownership increases incentives for such efforts, but credit market imperfections force the poor to rent. Within-community externalities can lead to segregated cities-with the rich living with the rich in healthy homeowner communities, and the poor living with the poor in dysfunctional renter communities. The pattern of tenure segregation across communities in the United States accords well with the study's prediction. The authors analyze alternative tax-subsidy policies to alleviate inefficiencies in the housing market and identify the winners and losers under such policies.


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