Comment: Public Housing Demolition and the Benefits to Low-Income Families

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward G. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Housing Demolition ◽  
Low Income Families

Subsidized Housing With Services to Address Concentrated Disadvantage

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-314
Author(s):  
Daniel Brisson
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Subsidized Housing ◽  
Standardized Assessments ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Concentrated Disadvantage ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Low Income Families

The issue of poverty is exacerbated by the concentration of low-income families in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage. Public administrators in housing and social services are uniquely situated to address poverty and concentrated disadvantage through an explicit housing with services agenda. This article provides a theoretical and empirical review of issues associated with poverty and concentrated disadvantage from the perspective of subsidized housing provision. The review leads to the recommendation that administrators provide housing with services. The article finishes with an agenda for placing standardized assessments that are connected to evidence-based services within the delivery of public housing.

scholarly journals Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effects of Public Housing Demolition on Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (10) ◽  
pp. 3028-3056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Chyn
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Housing Vouchers ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods ◽  
Young Adult Outcomes ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Displaced Children ◽  
High School Dropout Rates ◽  
Housing Demolition ◽  
New Evidence

This paper provides new evidence on the effects of moving out of disadvantaged neighborhoods on the long-run outcomes of children. I study public housing demolitions in Chicago, which forced low-income households to relocate to less disadvantaged neighborhoods using housing vouchers. Specifically, I compare young adult outcomes of displaced children to their peers who lived in nearby public housing that was not demolished. Displaced children are more likely to be employed and earn more in young adulthood. I also find that displaced children have fewer violent crime arrests. Children displaced at young ages have lower high school dropout rates. (JEL H75, I38, J13, R23, R38)

Welfare as Wrecking Ball: Constructing Public Responsibility in Legal Encounters Over Public Housing Demolition

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
pp. 670-700
Author(s):  
John N. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Public Responsibility ◽  
Housing Demolition

Scholarship on welfare privatization illustrates how the process often curtails and undermines public responsibility for the poor. In this article, I examine how recipients, policy makers, and judges participate in the legal process as a means of challenging and defending privatization. I look at cases of litigation initiated by public housing tenants between 1985 and 2012 to fight the demolition of their homes to explore the changing meaning of public responsibility within a shrinking public sector. My findings show that as legislative and administrative reforms steered courts toward a more flexible understanding of public responsibility, courts gave increasing attention to the economic hardships experienced by the state itself, while downplaying the plight of low-income tenants.

scholarly journals Subsidized housing and school segregation: Examining the relationship between federally subsidized affordable housing and racial and economic isolation in schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jellison Holme ◽  
Erica Frankenberg ◽  
Joanna Sanchez ◽  
Kendra Taylor ◽  
Sarah De La Garza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Subsidized Housing ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Racial Isolation ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Relationship

Each year, the federal government provides billions of dollars in support for low-income families in their acquisition of housing. In this analysis, we examine how several of these subsidized housing programs, public housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) financed housing, relate to patterns of school segregation for children. We use GIS to examine the location of subsidized housing vis-à-vis district boundaries and school attendance boundaries in four Texas counties. We then examine patterns of segregation between schools with and without subsidized housing in their attendance zones, as well as the extent of economic and racial isolation experienced by students in those schools. Our results illustrate that public housing and LIHTC housing developments are zoned to racially and economically isolated schools, and that developments are associated with especially high levels of economic and racial isolation for Black and Latinx students. We conclude by discussing implications for housing and education policy to ameliorate these patterns. 

scholarly journals Developing a Business Case for a Renewable Energy Community in a Public Housing Settlement in Greece—The Case of a Student Housing and Its Challenges, Prospects and Barriers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3792
Author(s):  
Pantelis N. Botsaris ◽  
Paraskevi Giourka ◽  
Adamantios Papatsounis ◽  
Paraskevi Dimitriadou ◽  
Nerea Goitia-Zabaleta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Energy Community

Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh) has formed, under the European Project Renaissance (Renewable Integration & Sustainability in Energy Communities, HORIZON 2020, GA 824342), a virtual Renewable Energy Community (REC) in Greece located nearby Kimmeria at the northeast of the city of Xanthi, at the North-eastern Greece. The REC formed is the first energy community designed in a public housing settlement in Greece and its members are: (a) the Democritus University of Thrace, (b) the Municipality of Xanthi and (c) a local industry. DUTh’s main objective is to explore, leverage and mobilize stakeholders to apply schemes for a social group of end users (i.e., students from low-income families) in order to participate in the operation and management of a local renewable energy community, gaining also non-financial benefits. This paper presents the business case scenario and the market players evolving at an Energy Community which includes a public establishment of student residences in Greece.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document