Massey, D. S., & Denton, N. A. (1993). American apartheid: segregation and the making of the underclass. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Date Published or Accessed: 1993-00-00 1993
Pendall, R. (2000). Why voucher and certificate users live in distressed neighborhoods. Housing Policy Debate, 11(4), 881_910. doi:10.1080/10511482.2000.9521391
Date Published or Accessed: 2000-00-00 2000
Abstract The Section 8 voucher and certificate program potentially allows recipients to choose better neighborhoods than they might otherwise be able to afford. This article compares the location of households using Section 8 vouchers and certificates with the location of other renter households, both low_income renters and all renters. In 1998, Section 8 users were 75 percent as likely as other poor tenants to live in distressed neighborhoods but 150 percent more likely than all renters to live in such tracts. These national averages obscure substantial variation among metropolitan areas. Section 8 users concentrate in distressed neighborhoods when rental housing concentrates there, but they avoid distressed neighborhoods with very low rents. Concentration also hinges on race; when assisted households are mostly black and other residents are mostly white, assisted households are much more likely to live in distressed neighborhoods.
Joseph, M. L., Chaskin, R. J., & Webber, H. S. (2007). The theoretical basis for addressing poverty through mixed-income development. Urban Affairs Review, 42(3), 369_409. doi:10.1177/1078087406294043
Date Published or Accessed: 2007-01-01 01/01/2007
This article examines the theoretical foundations upon which the rationale for mixed-income development as a strategy to confront urban poverty is built. The authors focus on four propositions that draw from theories on social networks, social control, culture and behavior, and the political economy of place. They assess available evidence about the relative importance of the four theoretical propositions. They conclude that the most compelling propositions are those that suggest that some low-income residents may benefit from a higher quality of life through greater informal social control and access to higher quality services. They find less evidence that socioeconomic outcomes for low-income residents may be improved through social interaction, network building, and role modeling.
Wilson, W. J. (1996). When work disappears: the world of the new urban poor (1st ed.). New York: Knopf_: Distributed by Random House, Inc.
Date Published or Accessed: 1996-00-00 1996
Zielenbach, S. (2000). The art of revitalization improving conditions in distressed inner-city neighborhoods. New York: Garland.
Date Published or Accessed: 2000-00-00 2000
Focusing on two Chicago neighbourhoods as case studies, this text examines the regional and national factors that affect urban development as well as the specific local characteristics that impact revitalization.
Hirsch, A. R. (1998). Making the second ghetto: race and housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.
Date Published or Accessed: 1998-00-00 1998
"Arnold Hirsch argues that in the postdepression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation and that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles on Chicago’s South Side. In chronicling the strategies used by ethnic, political, and business interests threatened by the great migration of southern blacks in the 1940s, Hirsch reveals how the violent reaction of an emergent "white" population combined with public policy to segregate the city."–BOOK JACKET.