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Whose Neighborhood Needs? Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Federal Community Development Funds

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dc.contributor.authorViscardi, Leandro Alex Moreira
dc.contributor.authorTorri, Giuseppe
dc.contributor.authorAdams, David K.
dc.contributor.authorBarbosa, H. M. J.
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-02T16:37:49Z
dc.date.available2024-01-02T16:37:49Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-03
dc.description.abstractLocal governments must balance their growth ambitions against needs arising from social inequities. The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program aims to redress these disparities by directing funds toward disinvested tracts. We ask whether a city's institutional design, public and private actor composition, and resource availability influence the decision to invest in communities with greater levels of social need. Utilizing a social equity framework, we connect place-level procedural fairness mechanisms with neighborhood-level access equity consequences. Combining U.S. local government survey data over two decades with census tract-level CDBG expenditures, we find that in neighborhood where 51 percent or more of the families are low-to-moderate income (LMI), its likelihood of receiving funds increases with its share of LMI population relative to the city's, but at a diminished rate compared to non-LMI tracts. Further, city-level factors moderate this relationship (e.g., including community development corporations in planning processes).
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231212843
dc.format.extent45 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.genrepostprints
dc.identifier.citationStokan, Eric, Michael Overton, Aaron Deslatte, and Christine Zhang. “Whose Neighborhood Needs? Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Federal Community Development Funds.” Urban Affairs Review, December 3, 2023, 10780874231212843. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874231212843.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/10780874231212843
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/31164
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSage
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Political Science
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2023. Use is restricted to non-commercial and no derivatives.
dc.titleWhose Neighborhood Needs? Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Federal Community Development Funds
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dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8409-5016

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