Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171138 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6674
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the relative merits of large place- and tenant-based housing programs in Finland in terms of housing affordability and neighborhood quality. Using hedonic regression methods and household micro data, we find that rent savings to public housing tenants are less targeted towards low-income households than housing allowance. In addition, low-income public housing tenants live in poorer, less educated and lower quality neighborhoods than similar low-income households in private rental housing. This suggests that place-based programs may lead to more segregation than tenant-based alternatives even when neighborhood mixing is an explicit aim of the program, as in Finland.
Subjects: 
hedonic regression
housing allowance
place-based policy
public housing
JEL: 
H22
R21
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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