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Residential mobility and persistently depressed voting among disadvantaged adults in a large housing experiment.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 5/14/2024, Vol. 121 Issue 20, p1-10. 50p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This study examines the impact of residential mobility on electoral participation among the poor by matching data from Moving to Opportunity, a US-based multicity housing-mobility experiment, with nationwide individual voter data. Nearly all participants in the experiment were Black and Hispanic families who originally lived in high-poverty public housing developments. Notably, the study finds that receiving a housing voucher to move to a low-poverty neighborhood decreased adult participants' voter participation for nearly two decades--a negative impact equal to or outpacing that of the most effective get-out-the-vote campaigns in absolute magnitude. This finding has important implications for understanding residential mobility as a long-run depressant of voter turnout among extremely low-income adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *RESIDENTIAL mobility
*POOR people
*HOUSING vouchers
*ADULTS
*VOTER turnout
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00278424
- Volume :
- 121
- Issue :
- 20
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177440322
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306287121