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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 20, 2004 erstellt
Beschreibung:
Hoff and Sen 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.This paper - a product of Investment Climate, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand how external agents can best complement the strategies of the poor to improve the responsiveness of local government and to strengthen community institutions