Subsidized Housing Projects Research Articles

Targeting the Elderly to Meet the Housing Needs of Very Low and Low Income Families

The potential exists for creating public programs that link subsidized, new housing for the elderly with scattered site housing for very low and low income families. By identifying units that are vacated by the elderly and taking measures that facilitate their availability to those with very low and low income, local governments and housing advocates can serve a broader range of households. The vacated housing stock is often larger and offers a greater choice in neighborhoods, in schools, and in proximity to employment areas than is feasible when families are concentrated in a few public housing projects. The extent to which these benefits can be realized will vary depending on the local housing market and characteristics of the vacated housing. Additional research is needed to define multipliers that take into consideration the overall improvements in housing opportunities that are attributable to a subsidized housing project for the elderly.

First Test of a Tenant-Centered Instrument for Measuring Tenant Participation in Subsidized Housing Projects

Consumer participation in public housing has been accepted as a positive phenomenon, but continues to be poorly understood. This article presents an instrument to measure a new concept of tenant participation. The instrument is based on a model within which tenant values, goals, and understanding influence both participation behaviors and perceptions. Nineteen scales were tested on a sample of 153 tenants from housing projects in two midsized Canadian cities. Results indicated that tenant communication was the most important predictor of housing satisfaction. The number and age of children were related to some of the participation scales. Path analysis indicated intriguing differences between the determinants of participation behaviors and housing satisfaction.

Mary, after the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl

A charming fairytale with a difference, Mary After the Queen is the memoir of a girl born into a poor family during World War I who grows up--still poor--to find beauty in unexpected places and magic in the most unpromising event. This lighthearted narrative follows the fortunes--and misfortunes--of Mary and her friend Sis who grew up together in a subsidized housing project in Stratford-upon-Avon. We share their laughter and their disillusionments and gain, along the way, a unique look at the world of English factory workers in the 1930's and 40's and the lives, hearts, and minds, of the women who worked there--the girls that never did get on.

Screening for Hypothermia in the Ambulatory Elderly

This study investigated the prevalence of low body temperatures in 97 elderly and 20 nonelderly subjects. To the best of our knowledge, no earlier survey has been conducted with a North American population. To ensure comparability with the British National Survey performed in 1973, urine temperatures were collected as a proxy measure of core temperatures. The urine-collecting funnel was modified to minimize cooling artifact introduced by the device. Study subjects were selected from an internal medicine clinic that serves the poor, a federally subsidized housing project, and a subsidized housing project in northernmost Maine. A youthful population (mean age, 32.3 years) was chosen to provide a comparative population to elderly participants (mean age, 73.9 years). Based on the British National Survey, the expected prevalence of low body temperatures (less than 35.5 degrees C) was 10%. The present study detected no low body temperatures, and the average urine and mouth temperatures were 0.3 and 0.19 degree C warmer, respectively, than those in the British National Survey. Youthful subjects were not significantly different from elderly participants. There appears to be no evidence from this study that low early-morning basal body temperature (less than 35.5 degrees C) is a common geriatric occurrence in ambient room temperature.

Some social indicators for multiple family housing

This research suggests some social indicator candidates for families housed in multiple-family environments. Objective, subjective, and behavioral data sets are all represented in the analysis. This range of social statistics and the utilization of appropriate statistical analysis are viewed as necessary conditions for generating social indicators rather than simply relying on arbitrarily selected social statistics and assume they are indicators. Analysis of 1253 interviews in 88 Alberta subsidized housing projects reveals that subjective data from the tenant category of housing variables rank highest in accounting for present levels of user satisfaction and are viewed therefore as reasonable social indicators with respect to that issue.

Exclusion of Negroes from Subsidized Housing Project

Exclusion of Negroes from Subsidized Housing Project