This paper, developed with colleagues from the SEGUE project, analyses how housing subsidies shape neighbourhood selection among low-income households. The results suggest that subsidy design and housing-market constraints can channel recipients towards more disadvantaged neighbourhoods, with implications for the spatial reproduction of inequality.

Together with Marisol Brito-Doerr, I analyse the geographical scale of segregation (from macro-scale patterns to more mosaic-like configurations) in the capital cities of two countries with substantially different housing systems: Chile and the Netherlands. Preliminary results indicate that the measured intensity of residential separation between high- and low-income groups is highly sensitive to the spatial measure employed. They also point to the important role of housing policies in shaping the geographical scale of segregation.