Owens, A. (2015). Housing Policy and Urban Inequality: Did the Transformation of Assisted Housing Reduce Poverty Concentration? Social Forces., 94(1), 325.

In this editorial from this scholarly journal, Ann Owens “Housing Policy and Urban Inequality: Did the Transformation of Assisted Housing Reduce Poverty Concentration?” examines whether the intervention of the housing market helped reduced poverty concentration as is questioned in Owen’s journal. She uses the national longitudinal data between the years of 1977-2008 with concentration of the 100 largest metropolitan areas. Ann Owens was able to write this journal while she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, with the support from the National Science Foundation IGERT program at Harvard University that she benefited to be qualified for the printing of this journal. Owen's data information to compare or intertwine with the differences of national housing subsides, the entry, exit, and enhancement of low in-come housing. This will figure out if concentration is a city or private business placement