Opportunity Neighborhoods for Latino and African American Children

Santiago, Anna Maria; Galster, George; Lucero, Jessica Lee; Ishler, Karen J.; Lee, Eun Lye; Kypriotakis, George; Stack, Lisa

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“…There is a growing literature documenting associations between neighborhood context and social, economic, and health outcomes(Galster 2002, Gary, Stark, and Laveist 2007, Ludwig et al 2012, Ludwig et al 2011, Mair, Diez Roux, and Galea 2008, Pickett and Pearl 2001, Waitzman and Smith 1998), and child well-being (Aneshensel and Sucoff 1996, Curtis, Dooley, and Phipps 2004, Leventhal, Dupéré, and Gunn 2009, DeLuca and Dayton 2009, Harding 2003, Santiago et al 2014, Chetty, Hendren, and Katz 2015, Sharkey 2013). Therefore, to the extent that the HCV or housing mobility programs succeed in improving neighborhood context, and to the extent that neighborhoods cause (as opposed to just being associated with) other outcomes, HCV and housing mobility programs may have significant impacts on a variety of outcomes, potentially across sectors.…”

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The Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment on Participants’ Residential Environments

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Housing Policy Debate

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We used the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing experiment to inform how housing choice vouchers and housing mobility policies can assist families living in high-poverty areas to make opportunity moves to higher quality neighborhoods, across a wide range of neighborhood attributes. We compared the neighborhood attainment of the three randomly-assigned MTO treatment groups (Low Poverty voucher, Section 8 voucher, Control group) at 1997 and 2002 locations (4-7 years after baseline), by using survey reports, and by linking residential histories to numerous different administrative and population-based datasets. Compared to controls, families in Low-Poverty and Section 8 groups experienced substantial improvements in neighborhood conditions across diverse measures, including economic conditions, social systems (e.g., collective efficacy), physical features of the environment (e.g., tree cover) and health outcomes. The Low-poverty voucher group moreover achieved better neighborhood attainment compared to Section 8. Treatment effects were largest for New York and Los Angeles. We discuss the implications of our findings for expanding affordable housing policy.

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Section: Neighborhood Effects and Moving To Opportunitymentioning

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The Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment on Participants’ Residential Environments

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Housing Policy Debate

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“…The Denver Child Study derives its study population from a natural experiment involving the Denver (CO) Housing Authority’s (DHA) conventional and dispersed housing programs [ 9 ]. Beginning in 1969, the DHA initiated a dispersed housing program that provides scattered-site, single-family and small-scale, multi-family housing opportunities to 1500 low-income households—this is in addition to approximately 3000 units of conventional public housing.…”

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“…The primary source of data for the Denver Child Study was a retrospective survey administered to current and former DHA residents identified as parents/caregivers (“caregivers” hereafter) whose families entered DHA during the period between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 2005; had resided in DHA for a minimum of two years; had at least one child under the age of 18 when they moved into DHA; and identified as Latino or African American [ 9 ]. Surveys were administered over the phone or in-person during the period between April 2006 and February 2008 [ 9 ]. A total of 706 caregivers and their 1706 children aged 2 through 18 met all of the eligibility criteria for the larger Denver Child Study, yielding a final response rate of 57%.…”

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“…Finally, respondents were asked to provide extensive details about all of the neighborhoods in which the children lived during childhood as well as detailed information about the characteristics of all members of the household corresponding to each place of residence. These data were compiled into a database which contained information about child, caregiver, household and neighborhood characteristics for each year of a child’s life (for more details see [ 9 ]).…”

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“…The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) To obtain an unbiased measure of the causal influence of a variety of neighborhood indicators on teen parenting; and (2) to determine if these effects vary by ethnicity and gender. Our study is distinguished by its use of data from the Denver Child Study [ 9 ], a mixed methods retrospective study using a natural experiment in Denver, CO, in which low-income families and their children were quasi-randomly assigned to public housing in an array of socioeconomically and ethnically diverse neighborhoods.…”

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This study examines what neighborhood conditions experienced at age 15 and after are associated with teen childbearing and fathering among Latino and African American youth and whether these neighborhood effects vary by gender and/or ethnicity. Administrative and survey data from a natural experiment are used for a sample of 517 Latino and African American youth whose families were quasi-randomly assigned to public housing operated by the Denver (CO) Housing Authority (DHA). Characteristics of the neighborhood initially assigned by DHA to wait list applicants are utilized as identifying instruments for the neighborhood contexts experienced during adolescence. Cox Proportional Hazards (PH) models reveal that neighborhoods having higher percentages of foreign-born residents but lower levels of social capital robustly predict reduced odds of teen parenting though the magnitude of these effects was contingent on gender and ethnicity. Specifically, the presence of foreign-born neighbors on the risk of teen parenting produced a stronger dampening effect for African American youth when compared to Latino youth. Additionally, the effects of social capital on teen parenting were stronger for males than females.

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Future Directions for Research on Residential Segregation and Inequality in China

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This chapter summarises some of the key findings and themes of the book and considers their implications for future research on inequality and segregation in China. I highlight four priority areas. First, there is a need for more research on the dynamics of residential segregation. I argue that the real story of segregation is revealed in the factors and processes that drive long-term change. Second, I emphasise the need for more research on the spatial foundations of inequality—how inequality leads to the geographical separation of rich and poor and how this segregation mediates and reinforces almost every aspect of inequality. Third, I consider the relational and psychological impacts of inequality and the imperative for them to be included in the calculus of policy planning. Fourth, I consider the implications of the Causal Revolution in research methods and argue that they potentially offer the prospect of achieving a scientific approach to policy development and evaluation. I conclude with some reflections on the implications of our findings for future policy directions in China.

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Opportunity Neighborhoods for Latino and African American Children

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The Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment on Participants’ Residential Environments

The Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment on Participants’ Residential Environments

How Neighborhood Effects Vary: Childbearing and Fathering among Latino and African American Adolescents

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