Publications Tagged ‘public housing’
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Policy Brief
Public Housing and Public Schools: How Do Students Living in NYC Public Housing Fare in School?
This report examines the school performance of children living in NYCHA housing and finds that children living in NYCHA housing perform less well on standardized math and reading tests than other students, even after controlling for the characteristics of the individual students and the schools they attend.
Amy Armstrong, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Brian McCabe, Amy Ellen Schwartz. November 2008.
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Article
The Redevelopment of Distressed Public Housing: Early Results from HOPE VI Projects
The redevelopment of distressed public housing under the Urban Revitalization Demonstration Program, or HOPE VI, has laudable social, physical, community, and economic goals. Three public housing projects in Atlanta, Chicago, and San Antonio demonstrate the complexity and trade-offs of trying to lessen the concentration of low-income households, leverage private resources, limit project costs, help residents achieve economic self-sufficiency, design projects that blend into the community, and ensure meaningful resident participation in project planning.
Salama, Jerry J. Housing Policy Debate, 10 (1), pp. 95-142 . December 1998.
affordable housing, neighborhoods, public housing, subsidized housing
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Article
Polarisation, Public Housing and Racial Minorities
Cities in the US have become home to an increasing concentration of poor households, disproportionately composed of racial and ethnic minorities. In the US, poor and minority populations are overrepresented in public housing, mostly located in central cities. Racial and ethnic minorities in American public housing are, for the most part, composed of native-born households whereas in Europe they are more likely to be foreign-born. After a description of this concentration of poor and minority populations in public housing, we examine the effect of public housing on neighbourhood poverty rates in central cities. We construct a longitudinal database (1950-90) for four large cities-Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia—and examine the relationship between the location of public housing and changes in neighborhood poverty rates. We find that in each city, one or more of the variables relating to the existence of public housing is significantly related to increases in neighbourhood poverty rates in succeeding decades.
Carter, William H., Michael H. Schill, and Susan M. Wachter. Urban Studies, 35 (10), pp. 1889-1911 . September 1998.
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