Homeownership, Community Interactions, and Segregation
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...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/4973500/homeownership-community-interactions-segregation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14019 |
| 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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