Doctoral Dissertation Research: Residential Outcomes for Families Receiving Housing Assistance

这项研究的中心是当今美国社会面临的一个重要问题：当经济适用房供应短缺时，家庭如何利用有限的财政资源在理想的社区寻找和维持合适的住房。这一点很重要，因为人们居住的地方关系到他们的健康、教育和其他成果。 然而，在过去几十年里，由于住房成本的增长远远超过收入，负担得起的住房可以说变得越来越难获得。 这个项目测试新兴的理论，强调家庭如何寻找新的住房是既重要的住宅成果，并受到我们的生活条件和我们的经验，我们的社交网络的输入和位置，以及我们的偏好，理想和期望的时间和地点移动。 本研究阐明了过去的住宅和社会条件，住宅偏好，期望和理想（心理社会因素），住房搜索，和当前居住之间的联系。 这项工作的结果将有助于作出决定，扩大获得满足居民需要的住房的机会。 本项目探讨了在一个特定的县与儿童一起生活的住房选择计划参与者的住宅动态之间的关系。 它采用了50-55定性深入访谈的信息，两个地方公共住房当局的纵向行政数据，以及美国人口普查局和一个地区理事会的区域级数据。 访谈提供了住户的住宅历史，社交网络，住宅的心理社会因素，住房搜索过程和住宅满意度的洞察。定量数据提供了额外的背景信息，根据常用的家庭和社区社会经济环境的措施，评估从移动之前和之后的住宅成果。 使用定性和定量数据相结合，便于根据标准的社会经济措施和参与者报告的住宅满意度进行结果比较。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.