Why are the East sides of former industrial cities like London or New York poorer and more deprived? We argue that this observation is the most visible consequence of the historically unequal distribution of air pollutants across neighborhoods. In this paper, we geolocate nearly 5,000 industrial...

Why are the East sides of former industrial cities like London or New York poorer and more deprived? We argue that this observation is the most visible consequence of the historically unequal distribution of air pollutants across neighborhoods. In this paper, we geo-locate nearly 5,000...

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the federal government's primary means of encouraging private investment in rental housing that is affordable to low income households. This study uses Philadelphia as a case study to examine whether LIHTC-funded developments are more likely to be...