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OVER HALF OF URBAN RENTERS FACE A KIND OF HOUSING INSECURITY

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 The majority of renters in 25 US metropolitan tempats pengalaman some form of housing insecurity, research shows. The study, published in Housing Kebijakan Debate, uses a new housing insecurity indeks with measures in four key dimensions: overcrowding, unaffordability, poor physical conditions, and recent pengalaman of eviction or a forced move. "This indeks provides a way to expand our understanding of housing insecurity," says Giselle Routhier, a PhD candidate at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Kebijakan and Management. "What it shows is that more than half of renter households in metro tempats across the US pengalaman at least one indicator of housing insecurity, and 25 percent pengalaman three or more." togel online terpopuler dengan angka kemenangan terbesar OVERLAPPING PROBLEMS Routhier is currently kebijakan director at the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City while also pursuing her dissertation research. This study—the first porti...

SENIOR HOUSING CAN BE LONELY, BUT ALSO OFFERS SUPPORT

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 Older adults who live in public senior housing communities pengalaman a large degree of loneliness, according to a new study. Those same communities may also, however, be bagus locations for reducing that loneliness, the same study finds. togel online terpopuler dengan angka kemenangan terbesar "There are many studies on loneliness among community-dwelling older adults; however, there is limited research examining the extent and correlates of loneliness among older adults who reside in senior housing communities," writes Harry Chatters Taylor, doctoral student at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and lead author of a new paper in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. The study examines the extent of loneliness in three public senior housing communities in the St. Louis tempat. Two of the three complexes were in urban neighborhoods, and the last was located in a suburban neighborhood. All were publicly funded under Section 202 Supportive Housing for ...

COVID-19 MAKES US HOUSING CRISIS EVEN WORSE

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 With unemployment levels at record highs and social safety nets evaporating, America is staring down what could be the most severe housing crisis in the nation's history. togel online terpopuler dengan angka kemenangan terbesar Across the country, about one in seven tenants has no confidence in their ability to pay rent this month, according to data from the US Census Bureau. Some estimates suggest 19 to 23 million US renters may be at risk of eviction by September 30. Housing insecurity was already a masalah spot for the US even before the coronavirus hit. For renters who have managed to get by during the first part of the wabahc, vulnerabilities increased recently with the end of emergency protections from the CARES Act—as Congress remains deadlocked on a second relief package. Housing advocates say a surge in evictions and homelessness is inevitable in the coming months. Here, Meredith Greif, an assistant research professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University who specializ...

HOW JIM CROW LIVES ON IN SKEWED HOUSING LAWS

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 Racial discrimination is alive and well in many American neighborhoods half a century after Jim Crow—albeit in less visible, more insidious forms—according to a new article. togel online terpopuler dengan angka kemenangan terbesar In the article in the Michigan Law Ulasan, Deborah Archer, associate professor of clinical law at New York University Law, points to local laws that encourage or require landlords to evict or exclude tenants who have had kontak with the criminal legal sistem as a "critical mechanism for effectuating the new housing segregation." While the Fair Housing Act—a section of the landmark 1968 Civil Rights legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson—prohibits inequitable treatment on the pangkalan of race and other factors, recent evidence suggests that many in the real estate industry continue to skirt the law. A fall 2019 investigation by Newsday, for example, revealed that real estate agents in Long Island were steering white clients toward predom...

DEMOLISHING ABANDONED HOUSES MAY NUDGE NEIGHBORS TO SPRUCE UP

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 Demolishing abandoned houses may lead nearby properti owners to better maintain their own properties, according to new research. In the wake of the 2008 recession, many cities experienced an increase in the number of vacant and abandoned houses. Some cities, such as Cleveland and Detroit, received federasi funding to acquire vacant properties through land bank programs. togel online terpopuler dengan angka kemenangan terbesar While land banks were able to remodel and sell some of these properties, for the most distressed houses, demolition was the only pilihan. Daniel Kuhlmann, assistant professor of community and regional rencana at Iowa State University, wondered how effective those policies and demolitions had been. "Demolition programs have two goals. The first is to get nuisance properties out of neighborhoods because they can be dangerous," he says. "The second goal is to help stabilize declining neighborhoods." Past research showed that demolitions have litt...