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Location Patterns of Section 8 Housing in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Location Patterns of Section 8 Housing in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Wei Song, Karl Keeling
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466602588|ISBN10: 1466602589|EISBN13: 9781466602595
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8.ch013
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Song, Wei, and Karl Keeling. "Location Patterns of Section 8 Housing in Jefferson County, Kentucky." Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends, edited by Donald P. Albert, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 170-187. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8.ch013

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Song, W. & Keeling, K. (2012). Location Patterns of Section 8 Housing in Jefferson County, Kentucky. In D. Albert (Ed.), Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends (pp. 170-187). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8.ch013

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Song, Wei, and Karl Keeling. "Location Patterns of Section 8 Housing in Jefferson County, Kentucky." In Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends, edited by Donald P. Albert, 170-187. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8.ch013

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Abstract

The controversial Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program is the largest federal low-income housing program. Using GIS-based spatial clustering analysis (Getis–Ord’s Gi statistic) and multiple linear regressions, in this paper, the authors examine the locational patterns of more than 13,600 Section 8 housing units in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and explore key social, economic, demographic, and locational factors underlying the spatial distribution of Section 8 housing. The findings reveal that Section 8 housing continues to concentrate in the central city area with predominantly black residents, a high proportion of families in poverty, and abundant low-cost properties. The Section 8 voucher policy has failed to successfully de-concentrate poor families from these urban areas. Residential mobility of low-income families has been restricted by various factors, most important of which is the lack of accessibility to public transportation across the metropolitan area.

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