01623nam a22001577a 4500 528052 528052 241105b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Wilson, N.E., Hankinson, M. Magazinnik, A. and Sands, M. 59424 Inaccuracies in low income housing geocodes: When and why they matter Urban Affairs Review 60(1), Jan, 2024: p.217-231 Scholars across disciplines frequently employ data on housing developments subsidized by the National Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). We find that the geographic coordinates for these developments, generated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), are frequently inaccurate. Using both the population of data from California and a national sample, we find that HUD-provided geocodes are inaccurate nearly half the time while Google-generated geocodes are almost always more accurate. However, while Google’s geolocation is more likely to be accurate, when it is inaccurate, it deviates from the true location by a much greater distance than HUD. We therefore recommend that scholars use Google-generated geocodes for most research applications where the localized environment matters; however, in studies where observations are aggregated to a larger area, researchers may prefer to use HUD geocodes, which are more frequently inaccurate but typically by smaller distances.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231165767 Housing, Administrative data, Geocoding, Data audit. 48584 Urban Affairs Review HOUSING AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 403131 IIPA IIPA 2024-11-05 60(1), Jan, 2024: p.217-231 AR133480 2024-11-05 AR