The authors examine the locational patterns of three subsidized housing programs—conventional project-based, section 8 assisted rental, and shelter plus care supported housing for the severely mentally ill and homeless—in Phoenix, Arizona. They demonstrate that these programs are reinforcing the existing concentrations of the three types of subsidized housing in some Phoenix neighborhoods. The findings for Phoenix suggest that voucher and certificate policies designed to deconcentrate the poor are not achieving some of their major objectives. Indeed, the policies pursued by different providers of subsidized housing may cumulatively lead to increasing concentrations of all such housing in tracts that are already compromised by concentrations of the urban poor.
作者们研究了亚利桑那州凤凰城三种补贴住房项目的定位模式——传统项目型、第8节辅助租赁和为严重精神病患者和无家可归者提供支持的住房。他们表明,这些项目正在加强凤凰城某些社区现有的三种类型的补贴住房集中。对于凤凰城的研究结果表明,旨在分散贫困人口的券和证书政策并未实现其主要目标之一。事实上,不同补贴住房提供者所追求的政策可能累积导致所有这类住房在已经受到城市贫困人口集中影响的区域中集中增加。