Revitalization of Urban Regeneration through the Happiness Housing Project as Public Housing Policy

Theories of Urban Poverty and Implications for Public Housing Policy

Urban poverty has been the subject of sociological and political debate for more than a century. In this article I examine theories of urban poverty and their place in American housing policy. I first discuss theories that have arisen out of the sociological and policy discourse on urban poverty and the research that supports and challenges these theories. I then review current public housing i...

Selected Readings In Urban Policy Analysis URBAN HOUSING MARKETS AND HOUSING POLICY

Mapping urban revitalization: using GIS spatial analysis to evaluate a new housing policy.

This longitudinal, multimethod study uses geographical information system (GIS) software to evaluate the community-wide impact of a neighborhood revitalization project. Unsystematic visual examination and analysis of GIS maps are offered as a complementary tool to quantitative analysis and one that is much more compelling, meaningful, and effective in presentation to community and nonscientific...

Housing , Health and Happiness

Despite the importance of housing for people’s well-being, there is little evidence on the causal impact of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper, we help to fill this gap by investigating the impact of a largescale effort by the Mexican Government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health and adult happiness. We find that replacing dirt f...

Housing and Public Policy Trends: Extrapolating into the Future for Public Housing Authorities

Federal housing policy has changed dramatically over the last seventy years. Policy has been shaped by economic and political conditions in a given time, as well as findings generated from empirical research. However, over the last three decades, despite economic fluctuations and ideological shifts in national leadership, certain themes dominate federal housing policy. Each of these themes is d...