The Gautreaux Legacy: What Might Mixed‐Income and Dispersal Strategies Mean for the Poorest Public Housing Tenants?

Subsidized Housing, Public Housing, and Adolescent Violence and Substance Use

“…Yet it should be acknowledged that the very large treatment effect associated with subsidized housing recipients drives this association. This recognition does not dismiss the potentially protective effect of receiving housing assistance versus living in other housing situations that may be less stable and consistent, but it does indicate that housing assistance recipients should not be thought of or referred to as one, homogeneous population.Our results show that, even after the reforms of 1998 that intended to improve the environment of public housing residents by razing and/or refurbishing large-scale, densely populated housing projects and enforcing restrictive tenancy (Popkin et al, 2000;Popkin et al, 2005;Schwartz & Tajbakhsh, 2001), the reality of teens living in public housing units differs from that of teens receiving housing vouchers. In fact, supplemental analyses indicate that the situation of 2004 residents of public housing is more similar to 1996 residents of public housing (prior to the reforms) than to 2004 residents of subsidized housing (see Figure 1).…”

“…In turn, this evidence has become the basis for assumptions that substance use and violence among adolescents living in public housing warrants public policy attention (Popkin, Buron, Levy, & Cunningham, 2000;Schwartz & Tajbakhsh, 2001). Relying on existing social scientific findings about the effects of concentrated poverty (Massey & Denton, 1993;R.…”

“…These associations also apply to the issues of teen violence and substance use. Research consistently indicates that neighborhood disadvantage is related to increased adolescent drug abuse, alcohol use, and violent behavior (Elliott et al, 1996;Kubrin & Weitzer, 2003;MacDonald & Gover, 2005;Valdez, Kaplan, & Curtis, 2007).In turn, this evidence has become the basis for assumptions that substance use and violence among adolescents living in public housing warrants public policy attention (Popkin, Buron, Levy, & Cunningham, 2000;Schwartz & Tajbakhsh, 2001). Relying on existing social scientific findings about the effects of concentrated poverty (Massey & Denton, 1993;R.…”

In Good Company Neighborhood Quality and Female Employment

“…736 (N.D. Ill. 1969) andHills v. Gautreaux, 425 U.S. 284 (1976), families living in housing projects were awarded rental housing assistance to move into the suburbs. See Popkin et al [2000] [Moffitt 2001, p. 66]. They have the advantage of delivering estimates for the sample as it is observed on the ground, so to speak, instead of "artifically" transplanting people to a different neighborhood.…”

An Assessment of the Training and Developmental Needs of Employees in Nigerian Local Government

“…Wilson's work in social concentration influenced the redevelopment of public housing, and more broadly, the ghetto [10]. Wilson's [6] work discussed in Popkin's [11] research described a new urban poverty characterized by the geographic concentration of high rates of joblessness and welfare dependency, high proportions of female-headed households, out-of-wedlock births, teen pregnancies, and high levels of social disorganization, violence, and crime in certain neighborhoods [12]. Massey [4] found that concentrated poverty in contemporary impoverished urban communities creates the social dysfunctions that numerous early urban sociologists discussed in their research.…”