1. “Our Buildings Must Be Patrolled by Foot”: Policing Public Housing and New York City Politics, 1934–1960

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-42
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
York City

Mapping Public Housing: The Case of New York City

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvin Wyly ◽  
James DeFilippis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
York City ◽  
Spatial Association ◽  
Housing Subsidy ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Policy Debates

In American popular discourse and policy debates, “public housing” conjures images of “the projects”—dysfunctional neighborhood imprints of a discredited welfare state. Yet this image, so important in justifying deconcentration, is a dangerous caricature of the diverse places where low–income public housing residents live, and it ignores a much larger public housing program—the $100 billion–plus annual mortgage interest tax concessions to (mostly) wealthy homeowners. in this article, we measure three spatial aspects of assisted housing, poverty, and wealth in New York City. First, local indicators of spatial association document a contingent link between assistance and poverty: vouchers are not consistently associated with poverty deconcentration. Second, spatial regressions confirm this result after controlling for racial segregation and spatial autocorrelation. Third, factor analyses and cluster classifications reveal a rich, complex neighborhood topography of poverty, wealth, and housing subsidy that defies the simplistic stereotypes of policy and popular discourse.

scholarly journals Bedbug Complaints among Public Housing Residents—New York City, 2010–2011

2014 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 1076-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabhu Gounder ◽  
Nancy Ralph ◽  
Andrew Maroko ◽  
Lorna Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Housing Residents

The New Deal, the Deserving Poor, and the First Public Housing Residents in New York City

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Allen ◽  
David Van Riper
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
York City ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Us Government

ABSTRACTBetween 1934 and the time of the 1940 Census, the US government built and leased 30,151 units of public housing, but we know little about the residents who benefited from this housing. We use a unique methodology that compares addresses of five public housing developments to complete-count data from the 1940 Census to identify residents of public housing in New York City at the time of the census. We compare these residents to the larger pool of residents living in New York City in 1940 who were eligible to apply for the housing to assess how closely housing authorities adhered to the intent of the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) and the Housing Act of 1937. This comparison produces a picture of whom public housing administrators considered deserving of this public benefit at the dawn of the public housing program in the United States. Results indicate a shift toward serving households with lower incomes over time. All the developments had a consistent preference for households with a “nuclear family” structure, but policies favoring racial segregation and other discretion on the part of housing authorities for tenant selection created distinct populations across housing developments. Households headed by a naturalized citizen were favored over households headed by a native-born citizen in nearly all the public housing projects. This finding suggests a more nuanced understanding of who public housing administrators considered deserving of the first public housing than archival research accounts had previously indicated.

scholarly journals Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Lorna Thorpe ◽  
Sue Kaplan ◽  
Donna Shelley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Smoke Free Policy ◽  
Healthy Housing ◽  
Residents Attitudes

Background: To assess residents’ attitudes towards the United States (U.S.) Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new smoke-free public housing policy, perceptions about barriers to policy implementation, and suggestions for optimizing implementation. Methods: In 2017, we conducted 10 focus groups among 91 residents (smokers and nonsmokers) living in New York City public housing. Results: Smokers and nonsmokers expressed skepticism about the public housing authority’s capacity to enforce the policy due to widespread violations of the current smoke-free policy in common areas and pervasive use of marijuana in buildings. Most believed that resident engagement in the roll-out and providing smoking cessation services was important for compliance. Resident expressed concerns about evictions and worried that other building priorities (i.e., repairs, drug use) would be ignored with the focus now on smoke-free housing. Conclusions: Resident-endorsed strategies to optimize implementation effectiveness include improving the access to cessation services, ongoing resident engagement, education and communication to address misconceptions and concerns about enforcement, and placing smoke-free homes in a larger public housing authority healthy housing agenda.

scholarly journals Housing stability and diabetes among people living in New York city public housing

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 100605
Author(s):  
Sungwoo Lim ◽  
Sze Yan (Sam) Liu ◽  
Melanie H Jacobson ◽  
Eugenie Poirot ◽  
Aldo Crossa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
York City ◽  
Housing Stability

Ethnic and Income Housing-Occupancy Patterns of Federal Moderate-Income Housing and Federal Public Housing in Low- and Moderate-Income Neighborhoods of New York City

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 707-714
Author(s):  
E M S Forman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
York City ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Occupancy Patterns ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Economic and racial—ethnic housing patterns of FHA Section 236 moderate-income and federally aided low-income public housing projects were examined in order to determine the relationships between the tenant-selection process, neighborhood racial—ethnic mix, and housing-occupancy patterns. The overall results show that in moderate-income neighborhoods federal income-admissions and integration regulations were successfully implemented regardless of the economic type of the project. In low-income neighborhoods federal income admissions and integration regulations were unsuccessfully implemented for projects of both economic types.

scholarly journals Predictors of Senior Center Use among Older Adults in New York City Public Housing

2014 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 1033-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Schneider ◽  
Nancy Ralph ◽  
Carolyn Olson ◽  
Anne-Marie Flatley ◽  
Lorna Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
York City ◽  
Senior Center
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