Study: Low-income housing does not affect property values

A common argument against low-income housing in well-off areas is the fear from these wealthy residents that their property values would drop because of their new neighbors. This was one of the persistent arguments that have helped keep affordable, subsidized housing projects out of Houston’s high opportunity neighborhoods over the decades, including the contentious fight over a Houston Housing Authority complex planned in a neighborhood in between the Galleria and Tanglewood this year.