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Measuring neighborhood quality is important for shaping many public policies. For instance, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP) is intended to expand social and economic opportunities “outside areas of poverty or minority concentration” (HUD 2008: ch. 2, p. 2-1). In other words, the program is designed to promote access to decent and affordable housing in higher quality neighborhoods compared with neighborhoods of traditional public housing projects
