Measuring Integration in Affordable Housing with Location Data — NSF Award to University of California-Santa Barbara (CA, $340,706
Moving people to 'better' places underpins the rationale for over 42 billion dollars in federal spending on flagship programs in affordable housing and social policy. Yet remarkably little is known about how much and where integration actually occurs. This project deploys a national, large-scale, and mobility-based tes
| Award title | Measuring Integration in Affordable Housing with Location Data |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2621678 |
| Awardee | University of California-Santa Barbara |
| City | SANTA BARBARA |
| State | CA |
| Amount obligated | $340,706 |
| Principal investigator | Wenfei Xu |
| Program | Human-Envi & Geographical Scis |
| Start date | 01/01/2026 |
| Abstract | Moving people to 'better' places underpins the rationale for over 42 billion dollars in federal spending on flagship programs in affordable housing and social policy. Yet remarkably little is known about how much and where integration actually occurs. This project deploys a national, large-scale, and mobility-based test of the major theories of how integration happens using cell phone location data. Case studies of metropolitan areas identify additional characteristics of places that correspond |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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