Housing Tenure and Residential Segregation in Metropolitan America

Beyond Black and White: Metropolitan Residential Segregation in Multi-Ethnic America

reports the results of research and analysis undertaken by Census Bureau staff, and has undergone a more limited review than official Census Bureau publications. It is released to inform interested parties of research and to encourage discussion.

Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Housing Tenure in Ireland

This paper investigates the sources of the extremely high level of owner occupation in Ireland. After using census data to explore the evolution of this phenomenon, the paper makes a cross-country comparison of owner occupation within the EU-15. Explanations are found for the high level of owner occupation that go beyond fiscal privilege to include wider microeconomic factors, as well as histor...

Status and challenges of waste segregation in residential communities

Degradation of urban environment and health hazard is directly associated with the unscientific handling of Municipal solid waste of India. Urbanization also contribute intensify Municipal solid waste generation. Source segregation of solid waste not only the fact to converge but also possible in maximum resource recovery from the waste. Waste management is a problem due to the ineffective mana...

Metropolitan-level racial residential segregation and black-white disparities in hypertension.

Few studies have examined geographic variation in hypertension disparities, but studies of other health outcomes indicate that racial residential segregation may help to explain these variations. The authors used data from 8,071 black and white participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2006) who were aged 25 years or older to investigate whether black-white hype...