Within the realm of active living in urban neighborhoods in the United States, only a few studies have addressed the factors that promote or inhibit active living among residents in public housing. This paper examines the environmental and interpersonal factors associated with active living and health in public housing. We specifically examine the environmental predictors of fear of crime, and ...

My forty-five years of experience as a legislative draftsman has convinced me that an ethical or moral position will either motivate or be mentioned in legislation if such a position will help to pass the law or help to get the legislator elected. For example, housing legislation, enacted to create more public housing for working people who cannot afford to buy or rent housing produced by the m...

Along with increased concerns about the green movement in society and academia, this study conceptually discovers how green movement cues influence customers’ emotions, cognitions, brand attitudes, and further their behavior intentions by applying a well-developed advertising processing model in an online environment—the modified Affect Transfer Hypothesis (ATH) model. In addition, this study a...

A nearly 600 percent rise in incarceration rates has characterized the past four decades 1 such that, today, more than two million Americans are incarcerated in local, state, or federal penitentiaries. 2 In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Stanford law professor Michelle Alexander posits that this dramatic rise in incarceration rates represents a backlash to th...

OBJECTIVE Few published community garden studies have focused on low socio-economic youth living in public housing or used a community-based participatory research approach in conjunction with youth-focused community garden programmes. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility (i.e. demand, acceptability, implementation and limited-effectiveness testing) of a 10-week ex...

This paper analyzes the effect of regulations governing land use and residential construction upon the course of housing prices in California. We explore the linkage between regulation and housing prices using measures of housing prices estimated from the Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) of the 1990 and 2000 Census of Population and Housing, together with a detailed cross-sectional land use ...

The living arrangements of public assistance recipients have been a concern of policymakers and researchers alike. Although the effects of welfare on household composition have been studied extensively, relatively little research has examined how housing assistance might relate to household composition. This research explores the relationship between housing assistance and household composition...

Few studies of associations between housing and health have focused on housing insecurity and health risk behaviors and outcomes. We measured the association between housing insecurity and selected health risk behaviors and outcomes, adjusted for socioeconomic measures, among 8,415 respondents to the 2011 Washington State Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Housing insecure respondents ...

There is increasing public concern about the welfare implications of confinement housing systems for farm animals. Gestation stalls are a common method of housing pregnant swine in the USA. Single housing of pregnant sows in stalls and on tethers has been criticized because these systems severely restrict females’ freedom of movement. However, single housing allows easy individual control of fe...

This Article focuses on the 1990s renaissance in Atlanta, a time where the rate of violent crime was at the lowest it had been in years and the population was growing for the first time in thirty years. It focuses on three specific explanations of the renaissance: the holistic approach to development, the Empowerment Zone, the community policing program, and the reinvention of public housing. T...