Download or read book Three Essays on Residential Mobility Housing and Health written by Madeleine Isabelle Gorkin Daepp and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 700,000 people moved for health reasons in the last year, and many more moved for reasons in which health was implicated, such as to escape climate hazards. Changes in the extent to which a residence promotes health should change housing prices--an important health and social exposure in its own right, as well as a mechanism through which numerous other features of a place are reshaped--yet the relationships between residential mobility, health, and housing markets remain poorly understood. This dissertation comprises three papers on the association of residential mobility with health and housing. In the first paper, I evaluate the effect of a localized change in healthcare access--the 2006 Massachusetts Healthcare Reform--on housing prices and interstate migration along the state border. I find an increase in the prices of affordable housing that is offset by a commensurate decrease in the price of luxury housing; I also observe a small increase in migration into Massachusetts versus into neighboring states. My second paper seeks to better understand the effects of climate migration on housing markets. Examining the impacts of displacement due to Hurricane Katrina, I show that housing prices decreased in destination neighborhoods that received the largest numbers of movers, relative to neighborhoods that did not receive large inflows. Effects are larger in predominantly Black destination neighborhoods than in predominantly White destination neighborhoods. I also find larger effects in places that received more economically disadvantaged movers relative to similar neighborhoods that received more advantaged movers. My third paper describes a collaboration with the Healthy Neighborhoods Study Consortium, for whom I constructed a data set of estimated moving flows between Massachusetts neighborhoods. I then created a web-based app to make the resulting estimates accessible to planners, community organizations, and residents. An overarching theme of this work is the recognition that communities share housing and health challenges with the places to which former residents move and the places from which new residents arrive.

Download or read book Residential Mobility and Public Policy written by William A. V. Clark and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen papers by academics, evaluation researchers, and policy-makers deal with the importance of mobility research -- the study of ways in which neighbourhoods change -- for policy implementation, formulation, and research. Empirical mobility research, models for policy evaluation derived from it, the kinds of research needed to help local government keep abreast of changes in the areas they administer are some of the major topics discussed. '...this is a useful collection of essays which is well drawn together by the editors. The book should be essential reading for all academics interested in mobility research.' -- Progress in Human Geography, September 1984

Download or read book Staying for Opportunity written by Kevin Beck and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I analyze the mobility patterns of renters living in project-based assisted housing. Most research suggests that renters living in assisted housing are stuck in disadvantageous contexts and are unable to access homes in more affluent communities, where resources and opportunities tend to be concentrated. However, our paradigms of residential mobility are inadequate for explaining the mobility patterns of assisted renters for at least three reasons. First, they assume that residents choose places to live primarily by selecting among a set of neighborhoods rather than a set of housing options. Second, they assume that all time spent living in a high poverty context is detrimental, and equally detrimental, to one's wellbeing and life chances. Third, they consider assisted housing to be a uniformly disadvantageous context where resources and opportunities are scarce. I explain when and why these assumptions are inaccurate and argue that assisted housing can increase residential stability by providing renters with housing that is affordable, safe, and accommodating of their needs. I further argue that residential stability is a resource renters use to improve their wellbeing and increase their access to opportunities. I show how residents living in assisted housing are able to access resources and opportunities from their neighbors and from an organizational resource broker that owns and manages assisted housing. To make my case, I draw on data from the American Housing Survey, the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, and the San Diego Assisted Housing Survey. In contrast with prevailing theories of residential mobility and neighborhood attainment, I find that residents may remain in assisted housing over long periods of time because doing so can improve their life chances to a greater extent than moving to a new home or neighborhood.

Download or read book How Housing Instability Occurs written by Seungbeom Kang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to an acute shortage of affordable housing, millions of American renter households suffer from severe housing cost burdens, using over half of their incomes to pay housing costs. Along with the housing affordability problem that is commonplace in the United States, housing instability, often represented by involuntary and frequent residential mobility, is rampant among low-income renters. Scholars in many disciplines have increasingly expressed concern about the prevalence of housing instability because of its detrimental effects on low-income people’s lives. Housing instability negatively affects education environments of children, employment, mental health, social relationships, and so on. Although housing instability is becoming a widespread urban problem and a key mechanism of poverty in US cities, little is known about in what conditions housing instability occurs. Understanding the conditions in which housing instability is likely to occur is a fundamental step for researchers and policymakers to measure the varied housing needs for stable housing and to suggest effective policy approaches to providing stable housing to unsubsidized renter households. This dissertation examines the question of how household-level factors, metropolitan-level conditions, and different types of housing assistance are associated with the risk of housing instability. By analyzing a unique panel dataset built upon the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and other secondary data, this dissertation identifies subgroups vulnerable to housing instability in rental housing markets. This dissertation contains three essays, each of which is designed to examine a different aspect of housing instability. In my first essay, Why Low-Income Households Become Unstably Housed, I estimate the effects of potential household-level predictors on the likelihood of experiencing housing instability. The results reveal that changes in family employment structure, job insecurity, automobile ownership, and the number of adult family members within a household correlate with housing instability after controlling for changes in household income and housing costs—both of which are two main elements of a housing cost burden of a household. Moreover, I find that families with a greater number of children are particularly vulnerable to housing instability. These results contribute to identifying valid household-level predictors of housing instability and developing preventive policy interventions that help unsubsidized low-income households achieve housing stability. My second essay, Identifying Regional Determinants of Housing Instability, addresses one research question: Under what regional conditions are low-income renter households more likely to experience housing instability? I analyze the PSID dataset combined with multiple secondary datasets that include information about neighborhood- and metropolitan-level conditions within 252 metropolitan areas. Results reveal that low-income renter households are more likely to experience housing instability when residing in a region in which the poverty rate and car dependency are high. In particular, housing instability is likely to occur when households have no vehicle and reside in a region where a large proportion of commuters use automobiles. The third essay, To Whom Housing Policies Provide Stable Housing, examines potential variations in the roles of housing programs in alleviating housing instability. Specifically, this study focuses on exploring the associations between the five statuses related to receiving or leaving housing assistance and subsequent housing instability experience. These statuses include households that: (1) reside in a public or project-based subsidized housing (PH) unit; (2) leave a PH unit; (3) receive a Housing Choice Voucher (HCV); (4) leave the HCV program; and (5) are unsubsidized but income-eligible for housing assistance. Results reveal that, although all housing assistance recipients are less likely to experience housing instability than income-eligible unsubsidized households, HCV recipients are relatively more likely to experience housing instability than PH residents. Moreover, those who made their transitions off the assistance do not significantly differ from income-eligible unsubsidized households. These findings contribute to expanding the knowledge about the double-sided roles of tenant-based housing programs; on the one hand, the programs can encourage program participants to leave concentrated poverty areas. If housing consistency is lost, on the other hand, the programs can make them exposed to a wide variety of market-related risks that could destabilize their housing circumstances. The findings from the essays have several implications for housing policy and planning practice. The first two essays suggest a set of household-level and metropolitan-level determinants of housing instability. These results suggest subgroups of the low-income population that are more vulnerable to housing instability in private rental housing markets. The third essay provides housing assistance statuses that heighten the risk of housing instability among subsidized households. These findings would help public housing authorities, and urban planners (1) predict the size and type of households vulnerable to housing instability, (2) improve strategies to allocate limited resources for alleviating housing instability, and (3) develop alternative ways to help low-income households achieve housing stability.

Download or read book Three essays on housing market and spatial disamenities written by Lin Cui and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Download or read book The New Black Middle Class written by Bart Landry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new book, Bart Landry contributes significantly to the study of black American life and its social stratification and to the study of American middle class life in general.

Download or read book In Defense of Housing written by Peter Marcuse and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

Download or read book Place Attachment written by Lynne C. Manzo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches. Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity, create meaning in our lives, facilitate community, and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and belonging, placemaking and displacement, mobility and migration, intergroup conflict, civic engagement, social housing and urban redevelopment, natural resource management, and global climate change. In this multidisciplinary book, Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe, including contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams, Mindy Fullilove, Randy Hester, and David Seamon, to capture significant advancements in three main areas: theory, methods, and applications. Over the course of fifteen chapters, using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods, the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge, identify significant advances, and point to areas for future research. This important volume offers the most current understandings about place attachment, a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and placemaking professions.

Download or read book The Dream Revisited written by Ingrid Ellen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half century after the Fair Housing Act, despite ongoing transformations of the geography of privilege and poverty, residential segregation by race and income continues to shape urban and suburban neighborhoods in the United States. Why do people live where they do? What explains segregation’s persistence? And why is addressing segregation so complicated? The Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences of the nation’s separate and unequal living patterns. Leading scholars and practitioners, including civil rights advocates, affordable housing developers, elected officials, and fair housing lawyers, discuss the nature of and policy responses to residential segregation. Essays scrutinize the factors that sustain segregation, including persistent barriers to mobility and complex neighborhood preferences, and its consequences from health to home finance and from policing to politics. They debate how actively and in what ways the government should intervene in housing markets to foster integration. The book features timely analyses of issues such as school integration, mixed income housing, and responses to gentrification from a diversity of viewpoints. A probing examination of a deeply rooted problem, The Dream Revisited offers pressing insights into the changing face of urban inequality.

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Download or read book Essays on Retirement and the Residential Choice of the Elderly written by Paula Mehboob Kazi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Sharing America s Neighborhoods written by Ingrid Gould ELLEN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this book presents a fresh and encouraging report on the state of racial integration in America's neighborhoods. It shows that while the majority are indeed racially segregated, a substantial and growing number are integrated, and remain so for years. Still, many integrated neighborhoods do unravel quickly, and the second part of the book explores the root causes. Instead of panic and white flight causing the rapid breakdown of racially integrated neighborhoods, the author argues, contemporary racial change is driven primarily by the decision of white households not to move into integrated neighborhoods when they are moving for reasons unrelated to race. Such white avoidance is largely based on the assumptions that integrated neighborhoods quickly become all black and that the quality of life in them declines as a result. The author concludes that while this explanation may be less troubling than the more common focus on racial hatred and white flight, there is still a good case for modest government intervention to promote the stability of racially integrated neighborhoods. The final chapter offers some guidelines for policymakers to follow in crafting effective policies.

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