ABSTRACT
Economic integration has become a top priority for housing policy in the United States. Responding in part to the failures of public housing and the social costs of concentrated poverty, housing programs increasingly try to blend extremely low-income households with more affluent neighbors. Governments pursue this strategy of economic integration in two basic ways. One approach, dispersal, is to help public housing residents and other extremely low-income households move into suburban middle-income neighborhoods. The other method, mixed-income housing (MIH) includes households with varying levels of income within the same building or development.
