Chapter 13 Links

Noted in the chapter

·         Average wage by occupation from http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm.

·         U.S. Bureau of Census. Total Private Construction data. http://www.census.gov/const/www/index.html.

·         Creating Defensible Space, originally published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, can be downloaded for free at http://www.huduser.org/publications/pubasst/defensib.html.

·         Brennan, B. 2002. "Background on MTO." Moving to opportunity research. Created August 30, 2000. Last modified 22 August 2002. http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~kling/mto/background.htm.

·         Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Geneva, Switzerland, is now at http://www.ohchr.org/english/.

·         Reade, J. 2003. Testing for housing discrimination: Findings from a HUD study of real estate agents. Communities and Banking, Spring 2003, 11-16. http://www.bos.frb.org/commdev/c&b/2003/spring/testing.pdf.

·         U.S. Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract of the United States. Section 20. Construction and Housing. http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/construct.pdf.

Alternate links

·         Dempsey Travis, on Chatham and racial segregation in Chicago. Eighty-seven year old real estate developer Dempsey Travis talks about racism, housing segregation in Chicago, and the Chatham neighborhood he's lived in for the past 40 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgrgutGE5g.

 

·         Trailer for brick_by_brick, a documentary about housing segregation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DryqEga0IOA It briefly refers to racial steering, but mainly supports residential succession via the externality theory.

 

·         References to other government sponsored housing:

 

§         New Orleans Housing project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCpLa-33iEg.

 

§         Chicago Projects http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frg6gY6qXxI.

·         The pictures of Pruitt-Igoe (in the PowerPoint slides) are more dramatic in color. There are a number of other pictures on the web for the Robert Taylor homes in Chicago (where former Twins player Kirby Puckett and actor Mr. T grew up) but they did not have a high enough resolution to use them in the text. I’m not certain how they would show in a classroom., but if you want to spend more time on government provision of public housing, some links to the Robert Taylor homes include a video at http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410107.html with the opening remarks about the Robert Taylor homes and the promises that the city thought it was fulfilling, and pictures http://www.angelfire.com/nv/207/chicagohproberttaylorlink.html  (Pages 10-12 emphasize the isolation that easily could prevent low-income families from finding out about jobs).

·         U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Policy Development and Research Cityscape http://www.huduser.org/periodicals/cityscape.html. (Special thanks to Dr. John Fuller, University of Iowa, for suggesting this reference.)