Doctoral Dissertation Research: Residential Outcomes for Families Receiving Housing Assistance

这项研究的核心是当今美国社会面临的一个重要问题：在经济适用房供应短缺的情况下，家庭如何利用有限的财政资源在理想的社区找到并维护合适的住房。这一点很重要，因为人们居住的地方关系到他们的健康、教育和其他结果。然而，可以说，在过去几十年里，随着住房成本的增长远远超过收入的增长，负担得起的住房变得越来越难获得。这个项目测试了新兴的理论，这些理论强调家庭如何寻找新的住房对居住结果很重要，而且受到我们居住的地方的条件和我们在那里的经历、我们的社交网络的输入和位置，以及我们对何时何地搬家的偏好、理想和预期的影响。这项研究阐明了过去居住和社会条件、居住偏好、期望和理想(心理社会因素)、找房和现在居住之间的联系。这项工作的发现将有助于做出决定，扩大对满足居民需求的住房的准入。这个项目调查了住房选择代金券计划参与者之间的住房动态之间的关系，与儿童生活在特定的县。它使用了来自50-55次定性深度访谈的信息，来自两个地方公共住房当局的纵向行政数据，以及来自美国人口普查局和一个地区委员会的地区级数据。访谈提供了对房主的居住史、社交网络、居住心理社会因素、找房过程和居住满意度的洞察。量化数据提供了额外的背景信息，根据对家庭和社区社会经济背景的常用衡量标准，评估搬家前后的居住结果。使用定性和定量数据的结合有助于根据标准的社会经济指标和参与者报告的居住满意度来比较结果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This study centers on a vital issue facing U.S. society today: how families use limited financial resources to find and maintain suitable housing in desirable neighborhoods when affordable housing is in short supply. This is important since where people live matters for their health, education, and other outcomes. Yet, affordable housing has arguably become less accessible over the past several decades, as housing costs have risen substantially more than incomes. This project tests emerging theories that emphasize that how households search for new housing is both important for residential outcomes and influenced by the conditions of where we have lived and our experiences there, the input and location of our social networks, and our preferences, ideals, and expectations for when and where to move. This study elucidates the links between past residential and social conditions, residential preferences, expectations and ideals (psychosocial factors), the housing search, and current residence. Findings from this work will facilitate decisions that broaden access to homes that meet residents' needs. This project examines the relationships among residential dynamics for Housing Choice Voucher program participants living with children in a particular county. It employs information from 50-55 qualitative in-depth interviews, longitudinal administrative data from two local public housing authorities, and tract-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau and a regional council. Interviews provide insight into householders' residential histories, social networks, residential psychosocial factors, housing search processes, and residential satisfaction. Quantitative data offer additional background information to assess residential outcomes from before and after a move, according to commonly used measures of household and neighborhood socioeconomic context. Using the combination of qualitative and quantitative data facilitates the comparison of outcomes according to standard socioeconomic measures and participants' reported residential satisfaction.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.