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Public Housing That Worked
When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis and the towers of Cabrini-Green in Chicago, represents to most Americans the fate of all public housing. Yet one notable exception to this national tragedy remains. The New York City Housing Authority, America's largest public housing manager, still maintains over 400,000 tenants in its vast and well-run high-rise projects. While by no means utopian, New York City's public housing remains an acceptable and affordable option.The story of New York's success where so many other housing authorities faltered has been ignored for too long.Public Housing That Workedshows how New York's administrators, beginning in the 1930s, developed a rigorous system of public housing management that weathered a variety of social and political challenges. A key element in the long-term viability of New York's public housing has been the constant search for better methods in fields such as tenant selection, policing, renovation, community affairs, and landscape design.Nicholas Dagen Bloom presents the achievements that contradict the common wisdom that public housing projects are inherently unmanageable. By focusing on what worked, rather than on the conventional history of failure and blame, Bloom provides useful models for addressing the current crisis in affordable urban housing.Public Housing That Workedis essential reading for practitioners and scholars in the areas of public policy, urban history, planning, criminal justice, affordable housing management, social work, and urban affairs.
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Public Housing and Household Savings—A Three-Decade Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis
Housing affordability is a major determinant of quality of life. Despite the relatively high GDP per capita in Hong Kong (HK) (USD 460,000), about one-third of the population lives in public rental housing (PRH) because they cannot afford private housing. Existing research estimating the benefits of PRH or direct housing supports faces methodological limitations. Addressing this research gap, our study adopts an “in-kind subsidy” approach to estimate the monetary value of PRH, quantifying how much less PRH households might save monthly if they resided in private rental units, after controlling for confounding factors. This paper examines the association of housing types and household savings by applying ordinary least squares (OLS) regression to compare savings among PRH tenants, non-PRH tenants, and mortgage-free homeowners, based on seven rounds of the Household Expenditure Survey data (1989/1990 to 2019/2020). PRH tenants saved significantly more than private housing tenants. In terms of household savings, the value of HK PRH has steadily increased from HKD 4483 in 1999/2000, to HKD 9187 in 2019/2020. For every dollar increase in income, a household would have the propensity to save 0.7 dollars in 2019/2020. Given limited public resources, our findings offer robust evidence regarding the value of public housing. The results underscore the importance of the equitable allocation and effective management of current PRH stock to enhance the upward mobility of low- to middle-income households amid limited housing resources in HK.
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How working together matters : adversity, aspiration, action
This book is about the art and science of finding solutions to helping families in crisis, and making a real and lasting positive difference in their lives. It is about helping people in need, as well as lessons on adversity, aspiration and action when multiple different stakeholders work together in the helping process. The book is organised into two parts. Part 1 discusses the issues in an unprecedented real-life interim housing project in Singapore that helped families in crisis over several years. Part 2 contains chapters critically reflecting on the experiences and lessons learned from the helping process in this project. Collectively, the chapters in this book address salient questions on helping people in need and implications for building a strong Singapore society.
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Gentrification-related buyouts and sustainable public low-income housing delivery in Lagos, Nigeria
The dynamics of neo-liberalised housing market skew distribution against low-income earners who have to be assisted with varying degrees of subsidies for equity. In Nigeria, this results in building public housing estates for low-Income earners. This group form the bulk of the society, running the wheels of economic and productive processes in any urbanisation. As an indicator of the success of such subsidy regime, this study explored the extent to which the targeted poor had permanently benefited, taking Surulere Rehousing Estate (Scheme I) in Lagos, Nigeria as case study being typical of low-income Estates in Lagos. The study explored both primary and secondary data sources. A sample of 251 was systematically taken from the estate’s household population of 1,356 for service of structured questionnaire. The questions centred on identified variables of gentrification and related buyouts. The data were processed with SPSS version 20.0 with the outcome in descriptive statistics. The study detected 53.4% buyout rate aside from 11.2% rental cases, especially because of locational advantages including central accessibility of the estate to most parts of Lagos City-State. Most historic low-income allottees, assisted with subsidy had largely yielded ownership and possession to other higher socio-economic class. These confirm that the initial subsidy had largely ended up in the wrong pockets of a class which could ordinarily afford housing without it. The study has highlighted the possible futility and therefore, non-sustainability of public policy efforts at subsidising low-income housing in its current form, in Lagos Nigeria. Administrative, legal and possible taxation measures were proffered for sustainable subsidy practice in future projects.
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Cigarette smoking and attempts to quits among adults receiving federal housing assistance from 2005 to 2018, NHIS-HUD linked data
Introduction
While there has been a decline in smoking prevalence and an increase in quit attempts among the general U.S. adult population, this information is unknown for the population who receive housing assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).
Methods
We used National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)-HUD linked data to explore how the prevalence of cigarette smoking and past-year quit attempts has changed from 2005 to 2018 among HUD-assisted adults. Changes in the prevalence of outcome measures were examined over time for all HUD programs and by HUD program type. We created logistic regression models to assess the odds of being a current smoker or having a past-year quit attempt as a function of sociodemographic characteristics overall and by HUD program type.
Results
The final study population consisted of 15,117 HUD-assisted adults aged 18 and older. Between 2005 and 2009 and 2015–2018, the smoking prevalence of HUD-assisted adults significantly declined from 33.9 to 25.4%. The proportion of HUD-assisted smokers with past-year quit attempts significantly increased from 45.6 to 55.5% between 2005 and 2009 and 2010–2014 and remained stable in 2015–2018. Rates of smoking in 2015–2018 were highest among Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program recipients at 26.6%; though there was a significant decrease in smoking prevalence and increase in past-year quit attempts for HCV program participants over time. For the public housing and the Multifamily Housing (MF) programs, declining trends in smoking rates and increasing trends in past-year quit attempts did not reach statistical significance.
Conclusions
Among HUD-assisted adults, smoking prevalence has decreased, and past-year quit attempts have increased. While progress has been made, increased efforts to support smoking cessation are needed for HUD-assisted adults.
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The movement for housing reform in Germany and France, 1840-1914
During the 1920s and 1930s, a series of housing developments were built in Europe. This study sets out to discover how these developments came to being by looking into the evolution of the movement for housing reform in Germany and France, from the middle of the 19th century until the First World War.
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From Despair to Hope: Hope VI and the New Promise of Public Housing in America's Cities
Documents the evolution of HOPE VI, exploring what it accomplished replacing severely distressed public housing with mixed-income communities and where it fell short. Reveals how a program conceived to address a specific problem triggered a revolution in public housing and solidified principles that still guide urban policy today.
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