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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 titleMeasuring Integration in Affordable Housing with Location Data
Award ID2621678
AwardeeUniversity of California-Santa Barbara
CitySANTA BARBARA
StateCA
Amount obligated$340,706
Principal investigatorWenfei Xu
ProgramHuman-Envi & Geographical Scis
Start date01/01/2026
AbstractMoving 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
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