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People and Place in Low-Income Housing Policy—Unwinding Segregation in Connecticut

Pages 320-326 | Published online: 16 Feb 2017
 

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1. This neighborhood has a poverty rate of 51%, is 93% people of color (City-data.com Citation2013) and, according to Open Communities Alliance’s analysis of the best available data, at least 61% of its housing stock was created or preserved through government subsidies.

2. Because the area served by this nonprofit is surrounded by higher opportunity suburbs, even increasing the income qualifications to something slightly over 100% of area median income would broaden the group of eligible families.

3. In the Supreme Court’s 1948 Shelley v. Kraemer case, the court found that racial covenants as private agreements were not violations of the Fourteenth Amendment, but rather a state court’s enforcement of them was not permitted under the Constitution. See McAfee, T. B. (1987). "Shelly v. Kraemer: Herald of Social Progress and of the Coming Debate Over the Limits of Constitutional Change". (Paper 542). Retrieved at http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/542.

4. We are fortunate to have source-of-income protections in Connecticut.

5. Although it should be noted that with the recent reformulated definition of difficult to develop areas a greater number of higher opportunity areas qualify for a basis boost in the LIHTC program in Connecticut and likely elsewhere in the country. See Federal Register, Vol. 80, No. 226, November 24, 2015, https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-11-24/pdf/2015-29,953.pdf.

6. We are also exploring a mixed-income model where a percentage of the houses offered for sale in a given area would be targeted to lower income homeowners, and others would have fewer income constraints. This can also serve as an antigentrification measure.

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