Recent research by Desmond (2016) describes being evicted from one’s home as an ordinary experience for many low-income mothers in American cities. Involuntary removal from housing is considered a traumatic and shameful experience (Serby et al. 2006) that undermines health and causes additional material hardship (Desmond and Kimbro 2015). In response to this social problem, Desmond calls for a ...

OBJECTIVES To compare restaurant marketing by restaurant and neighborhood type. METHODS All restaurants (61=fast food, FF; 72=table service, TS) within an 800-meter radius of 13 public housing developments (HD) and 4 comparison neighborhoods were audited using the Restaurant Assessment Tool©2010. HD neighborhoods were lower income and higher minority than comparison neighborhoods with similar...

BACKGROUND This paper presents the study design, intervention components, and baseline data from Open Doors to Health, a study designed to address social contextual factors in colorectal cancer (CRC) prevention for low-income, racial/ethnic minority populations. METHODS A cluster randomized design with 12 housing sites as the primary sampling units was used: 6 sites were assigned to a "Peer-l...

High housing prices have caused concerns among policy makers as well as the public in many U.S. regions. There is a general belief that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there has been little empirical evidence that supports this view. In this paper, we clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housi...

Mixed-income development is an increasingly popular poverty deconcentration strategy in the United States but there have been few in-depth studies about the experiences of residents once they move in to the new housing developments. This article explores the early experiences of residents of all income levels who have moved into a new mixed-income development on the south side of Chicago. In-de...

In recent years, many local governments have struggled to address the burdens that uncontrolled residential development imposes on municipal infrastructure and other public facilities. Some local jurisdictions have implemented growth management programs and innovative infrastructure financing methods to coordinate new residential growth with the timely provision of essential public facilities. ...

This paper develops a welfare theoretic framework for interpreting evidence on the impacts of public programs on housing markets. We extend Rosen’s hedonic model to explain how housing prices capitalize exogenous shocks to local public goods and externalities. The model predicts that trading between heterogeneous buyers and sellers will drive a wedge between these “capitalization effects” and w...

Patricia Gardiner is a graduate student in City Planning at San Diego State University. She is Irish, and earned her undergraduate degree in History and Politics at North London Polytechnic In Britain. She has lived in the United States for six years and has worked in a variety of community development jobs, Including a period at the San Diego Housing Commission. She worked during the summer of...