Encouraging Low-Income Households to Make Location-Efficient Housing Choices
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Encouraging Low-Income Households to Make Location-Efficient Housing Choices

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    Portland State University. Center for Urban Studies
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  • Publication/ Report Number:
    NITC-RR-751
  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
    Portland (Oregon)
  • Corporate Publisher:
    National Institute for Transportation and Communities
  • NTL Classification:
    NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION;NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICY;NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION;NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Social Impacts;
  • Abstract:
    Transportation costs are typically a household’s second-largest expense after housing and, on average, account for about one-fifth of household spending. Low-income households are especially burdened by transportation costs, with low-income households spending up to two times as much of their income on transportation than higher-income households (Litman, 2013). This project involved the development of a set of tools intended to assist Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program participants in the Portland metro region with considering not just the housing characteristics and quality, but also the associated transportation options and costs, they were choosing when they moved. The toolkit included both messaging elements (a six-minute video and a brochure) and access to tools (including Walk Score Apartment Finder and a house search checklist) that the four regional public housing authorities integrated into their meetings with HCV participants planning to move. The rental vacancy rate in the region hovered around 3% in most places in the region during the study period, making it extremely difficult for low-income households, even with vouchers, to find housing. Thus, a pre-test, post-test evaluation design failed to find many significant differences between the outcomes of the intervention and control groups. However, from focus groups of HCV participants who had moved, the authors discovered that housing situated within individualized networks of frequent, non-interchangeable destinations (e.g., the home of a significant relative, one’s church, one’s place of employment) may be instrumental in reducing transportation costs. Further research is needed in this area.
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