Doctoral Dissertation Research - Moving Out: Section 8 and Public Housing Relocation in Chicago

本论文将研究芝加哥非裔美国家庭的定居模式和住房选择决策，因为他们搬出公共住房，进入私人市场使用芝加哥住房管理局第8节住房券。 它将研究这些搬迁家庭正在移动，他们的定居模式如何与其他第8节受助人相比，以及这些模式如何反映当地住房市场。 它将分析不同类型的家庭，以及来自不同CHA开发项目的家庭是否正在迁往不同的社区。并且，它将询问搬迁决策是如何形成的选择和限制，特点的住房搜索过程中的背景下：1）CHA的重建和搬迁计划; 2）芝加哥的住房市场的具体动态;和3）在家庭的组成，需求和偏好的差异。 最后，它将探讨这些选择和限制如何有助于解释当地住房市场的定居模式。 本研究采用多方法设计。 研究将结合联合收割机的定量和空间分析（第一阶段）、专家受访者访谈（第二阶段）以及对公共住房搬迁家庭分层抽样的定性半结构化访谈（第三阶段）。 定量分析将使用芝加哥常规第8节和搬迁计划的行政数据、区域一级的美国人口普查数据和当前的住房市场数据。 将利用地理信息系统工具制作地理住区和人口模式的直观图示。 统计检验将包括：第8节人口之间差异的ANOVA分析; OLS回归分析的邻里特征的家庭数量从每个程序在人口普查区;和，OLS回归分析不同的家庭特征的影响，对非裔美国人家庭的比例和贫困率的接收域。 使用地理信息系统工具产生的空间变量将作为控制因素纳入这些分析。将使用分层数据库计算机程序（第四阶段）分析与搬迁户的访谈记录。这项研究的目的是使一系列的社会科学方法论的观点，以承担目前的住房援助和公共住房搬迁计划，以产生有价值的结果，国家政策制定者和当地管理人员负责计划的实施。 它将推动更广泛地探索限制弱势群体机会的种族和经济隔离机制。 它还将支持继续将新出现的地理信息系统工具和空间分析纳入城市系统的社会政策分析和社会科学研究。 该研究将以几种方式为社会科学做出贡献：研究结果将传播给学术界和从业者。 共同主要研究者与当地利益攸关方密切合作制定了该项目，并同意以非正式方式和通过向芝加哥一个已建立的公民网络介绍的方式分享调查结果。 将通过一系列会议文件（2-3）和学术出版物（2）与跨学科学术界和决策界分享研究结果。 此外，论文全文将通过美国住房和城市发展部的网页公布，并通过住房和城市发展部用户提供。

This dissertation will study the settlement patterns and housing choice decisions of African American households in Chicago as they move out of public housing and into the private market using Chicago Housing Authority Section 8 housing vouchers. It will examine where these relocation households are moving, how their settlement patterns compare with those of other Section 8 recipients, and how these patterns reflect the local housing market. It will analyze whether different types of households, and households from different CHA developments, are moving to different neighborhoods. And, it will ask how relocation decisions are shaped by the choices and constraints that characterize the housing search process in the context of: 1) the CHA's redevelopment and relocation programs; 2) the specific dynamics of Chicago's housing market; and 3) the differences in the households' composition, needs, and preferences. Finally, it will explore how these choices and constraints help to explain the patterns of settlement in the local housing market. The proposed research design is multi-method. It will combine quantitative and spatial analysis (Phase I), interviews with expert respondents (Phase II), and qualitative semi-structured interviews with a stratified sample of public housing relocation households (Phase III). The quantitative analysis will use administrative data for Chicago's regular Section 8 and relocation programs, tract level U.S. Census data, and current housing market data. Visual representations of geographic settlement and demographic patterns will be generated using GIS tools. Statistical tests will include: ANOVA analysis of differences between Section 8 populations; OLS regression analysis of neighborhood characteristics on the number of households from each program in the census tract; and, OLS regression analysis of the effects of different household characteristics, on the proportion of African American households and the poverty rates of the receiving tracts. Spatial variables generated using GIS tools will be incorporated into these analyses as controls. Transcripts of interviews with relocation households will be analyzed using a hierarchical database computer program (Phase IV). This research is designed to bring a range of social-scientific methodological perspectives to bear on current housing-assistance and public-housing relocation programs in order to generate results valuable to both national policy makers and local managers charged with program implementation. It will advance broader explorations of the mechanisms of racial and economic segregation that limits the opportunities of disadvantaged populations. It will also support the continued integration of emergent GIS tools and spatial analysis into social-policy analysis and social-scientific studies of urban systems. The research will contribute to social science in several ways: The findings will be disseminated to both academic and practitioner audiences. The Co-PI has worked closely with local stakeholders in developing the project, and has agreed to share findings both informally and through presentations to an established civic network in Chicago. The findings will be shared with interdisciplinary academic and policy-making communities through a series of conference papers (2-3), and scholarly publications (2). In addition, the full dissertation will be publicized through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's web page, and made available through HUD-User.