Placing the poor while keeping the rich in their place: Separating strategies for optimally managing residential mobility and assimilation

Placing the poor while keeping the rich in their place: Separating strategies for optimally managing residential mobility and assimilation

A central objective of modern US housing policy is deconcentrating poverty through "housing mobility programs" that move poor families into middle class neighborhoods. Pursuing these policies too aggressively risks inducing middle class flight, but being too cautious squanders the opportun...

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Main Authors: Gustav Feichtinger, Dieter Grass, Michael Johnson, Gernot Tragler, Yuri Yegorov, Jonathan P. Caulkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2005-07-01
Series:Demographic Research
Subjects:
housing policy
multiple equilibria
negative externality
optimal control
segregation
separation
Skiba point
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/1/

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