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- Title
Subsidizing Car Ownership for Low-Income Individuals and Households.
- Authors
Klein, Nicholas J.
- Abstract
This article presents the findings from interviews with thirty individuals, living in Maryland and Virginia, who received subsidized cars from a nonprofit organization to examine how their lives changed when they received a subsidized car. Having a car eased their daily travel, and enabled access to higher paying jobs, moving to neighborhoods with more opportunities, and access to education and enrichment activities for recipients and their children. I also situate the subsidized cars within interviewees' mobility history. Most had owned cars before, and subsidized car ownership programs offer low-income consumers a safe alternative to a risky and expensive market for used cars.
- Subjects
MARYLAND; VIRGINIA; LOW-income consumers; USED cars; AUTOMOBILE ownership; HOUSEHOLDS; NONPROFIT organizations; AUTOMOBILES
- Publication
Journal of Planning Education & Research, 2024, Vol 44, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
0739-456X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0739456X20950428