The New Stigma of Relocated Public Housing Residents: Challenges to Social Identity in Mixed–Income Developments

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi J. McCormick ◽  
Mark L. Joseph ◽  
Robert J. Chaskin
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Negative Response ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
New Form ◽  
Public Housing Residents ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Mixed Income

Public housing residents have long experienced stigma as members of an urban “underclass.” One policy response is the creation of mixed–income developments; by deconcentrating poverty and integrating residents into communities in which their residences are indistinguishable from neighbors, such efforts might reduce stigma associated with residency in traditional public housing. Through in–depth interviews with 35 relocated public housing residents and 184 field observations at three mixed–income developments in Chicago, we find this is not the case. Stigma associated with living in public housing is ameliorated, yet residents report that their experience of stigma has intensified in other ways. The negative response of higher–income residents, along with stringent screening and rule enforcement, amplifies the sense of difference many residents feel in these contexts. We demonstrate that this new form of stigma has generated a range of coping responses as relocated public housing residents seek to maintain eligibility while buttressing their social identity.

Homeplace: Care and resistance among public housing residents facing mixed-income redevelopment.

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 523-534
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Hagan ◽  
Adrienne R. Hall ◽  
Laura Mamo ◽  
Jackie Ramos ◽  
Leslie Dubbin
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Public Housing Residents ◽  
Mixed Income

Integration and Exclusion

2013 ◽  
Vol 647 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Chaskin
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
Public Housing Residents ◽  
Income Component ◽  
Mixed Income

Much contemporary policy seeking to address the problems of urban poverty and the failures of public housing focuses on deconcentrating poverty through the relocation of public housing residents to less-poor neighborhoods or by replacing large public housing complexes with mixed-income developments. Lying behind these efforts is a set of generally integrationist goals, aiming to remove public housing residents from contexts of isolation and concentrated disadvantage and settle them in safer, healthier, and more supportive environments that better connect them to resources, relationships, and opportunities. Although some of the goals of these efforts are being met, the broader integrationist goals are proving elusive. Focusing on the mixed-income component of Chicago’s Plan for Transformation—the most ambitious effort to remake public housing in the country—this article argues that a range of institutional actors (including developers, property management, community-based organizations, and the housing authority) and organizational behaviors (around design, service provision, intervention, deliberation, and representation) shape dynamics that reproduce exclusion and work against the integrationist goals of these policies.

More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed–Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Tach
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Public Housing Residents ◽  
Mixed Income

Policy initiatives to deconcentrate poverty through mixed–income redevelopment were motivated in part by the desire to reduce social isolation and social disorganization in high–poverty neighborhoods. This article examines whether the presence of higher–income neighbors decreased social isolation or improved social organization in a Boston public housing project that was redeveloped into a HOPE VI mixed–income community. Based on in–depth interviews and neighborhood observation, I find that it was the lower–income former public housing residents who were primarily involved in creating neighborhood–based social ties, providing and receiving social support, and enforcing social control within the neighborhood, rather than the higher–income newcomers. This variation in neighborhood engagement stemmed from the different ways that long–term and newer residents perceived and interpreted their neighborhood surroundings. These differences were generated by residents’ comparisons of current and past neighborhood environments and by neighborhood reputations. Residents’ perceptions of place may thus influence whether mixed–income redevelopment can reduce social isolation and improve social organization in high–poverty neighborhoods and, more generally, whether changes in neighborhood structural characteristics translate into changes in social dynamics.

Improving the Health of Public Housing Residents Through a Housing Authority and Nursing School Partnership

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Donna J. Biederman ◽  
A. Michelle Hartman ◽  
Irene C. Felsman ◽  
Heather Mountz ◽  
Tammy Jacobs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Nursing School ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
School Partnership ◽  
Public Housing Residents

scholarly journals The characteristics of anxiety and depression symptom severity in older adults living in public housing

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Simning ◽  
Yeates Conwell ◽  
Susan G. Fisher ◽  
Thomas M. Richardson ◽  
Edwin van Wijngaarden
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Depression Symptom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Housing Residents

ABSTRACTBackground:Anxiety and depression are common in older adult public housing residents and frequently co-occur. To understand anxiety and depression more fully in this socioeconomically disadvantaged population, this study relies on the Social Antecedent Model of Psychopathology to characterize anxiety and depression symptoms concurrently.Methods:190 public housing residents aged 60 years and older in Rochester, New York, participated in a research interview during which they reported on variables across the six stages of the Social Antecedent Model. GAD-7 and PHQ-9 assessed anxiety and depression symptoms, respectively.Results:In these older adult residents, anxiety and depression symptom severity scores were correlated (r = 0.61; p < 0.001). Correlates of anxiety and depression symptom severity were similar for both outcomes and spanned the six stages of the Social Antecedent Model. Multivariate linear regression models identified age, medical comorbidity, mobility, social support, maladaptive coping, and recent life events severity as statistically significant correlates. The regression models accounted for 43% of anxiety and 48% of depression symptom variability.Conclusions:In public housing residents, late-life anxiety and depression symptoms were moderately correlated. Anxiety symptom severity correlates were largely consistent with those found for depression symptom severity. The broad distribution of correlates across demographic, social, medical, and behavioral domains suggests that the context of late-life anxiety and depression symptomatology in public housing is complex and that multidisciplinary collaborative care approaches may be warranted in future interventions.

scholarly journals Validity of Self-Reported Tobacco Smoke Exposure among Non-Smoking Adult Public Housing Residents

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. e0155024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shona C. Fang ◽  
Shan Chen ◽  
Felicia Trachtenberg ◽  
Slawa Rokicki ◽  
Gary Adamkiewicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Tobacco Smoke ◽  
Smoke Exposure ◽  
Tobacco Smoke Exposure ◽  
Public Housing Residents

scholarly journals Transformasi Pengucapan Syukur: Identitas dan Relasi Sosial Era Pandemi Covid-19 di Tomohon

Tumou Tou ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Wolter Weol ◽  
Nency Aprilia Heydemans ◽  
Fienny Maria Langi
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper describes the transformation of gratitude: identity and social relations during the Covid-19 pandemic era in Tomohon. The expression of gratitude to God Almighty (Opo Empung Wailan Wangko) was inherited from the ancestors of the Tou (people) of Minahasa for the yields obtained in the form of offerings. This one gratitude is done every one person in social relations and cultural integration. This article aims to analyze the transformation of gratitude carried out in Tomohon during the Covid-19 Pandemic era. This study reveals the social identity theory from the sociological paradigm by Steph Lawler (2014) which functions as a relationship between relatives as individuals, which in this study is called family, basudara. The article data uses field research with the method of observation and in-depth interviews. The results of the research are expected to help the government and society in preventing Covid-19 so as to minimize consumptive lifestyles and maintain distance. There are three values ​​that are useful for building life, namely the value of brotherhood, mutual cooperation (mapalus) and spirituality.

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