Place-Based Aid Versus People-Based Aid and the Role of an Urban Audit in a New Urban Strategy
Joseph Gyourko
University of Pennsylvania - Real Estate Department; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Cityscape, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1998
Abstract:
Cities with relatively high poverty rates remain high-cost places in which to live and work, even with hundreds of billions of dollars in means-tested monetary and in-kind transfers flowing annually to their poorer residents. Consequently, place-based aid to jurisdictions is needed to eliminate the cost differential between central cities and many of their suburbs that firms and middle-class households correctly perceive when they make location decisions. An Urban Audit is needed to provide estimates of how much aid is required to equalize poverty-related costs of various public services across jurisdictions and to provide localities incentives to employ the funds efficiently.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 25
JEL Classification: H72, H79
Accepted Paper Series
Suggested Citation
Gyourko, Joseph E., Place-Based Aid Versus People-Based Aid and the Role of an Urban Audit in a New Urban Strategy. Cityscape, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1998. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=156917 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.156917
