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Exploring Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods in the 1990s PDF
While there has been much talk of the resurgence of lower-income urban neighborhoods in the United States over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been surprisingly little empirical examination of the extent and nature of the phenomenon. Our chapter aims to address these key questions. In the first half, we undertake a broad empirical investigation of income changes in low-income neighborhoods in U.S. cities during the 1990s, comparing them to the changes that occurred during the two previous decades. In the second half of the chapter, we explore some reasons why the fortunes of lower-income urban neighborhoods improved during the 1990s.
Ingrid Gould Ellen & Katherine O'Regan. December 2009.
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Spillovers and Subsidized Housing: The Impact of Subsidized Rental Housing on Neighborhoods LINK
Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock, concentrated poverty, and exposure to health hazards in the home. These challenges can be costly and difficult to address. The time is ripe for fresh, authoritative analysis of this important yet often overlooked sector.
Ingrid Gould Ellen. Revisiting Rental Housing (Brookings Institution Press). December 2008.
affordable housing, neighborhoods, renters, subsidized housing
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Continuing Isolation: Segregation in America Today LINK
“Segregation: The Rising Costs for America” documents how discriminatory practices in the housing markets through most of the past century, and that continue today, have produced extreme levels of residential segregation that result in significant disparities in access to good jobs, quality education, homeownership attainment and asset accumulation between minority and non-minority households.
Ingrid Gould Ellen. Segregation: The Rising Costs for America (Routledge). December 2008.
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Do Economically Integrated Neighborhoods Have Economically Integrated Schools? LINK
The goal of this book, the first in a series, is to bring policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on various aspects of urban and regional policy. The authors take a fresh look at several different issues (e.g., economic development, education, land use) and conceptualize how each should be thought of. Once the contributors have presented the essence of what is known, as well as the likely implications, they identify the knowledge gaps that need to be filled for the successful formulation and implementation of urban and regional policy.
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Leanna Stiefel. Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects (Urban Institute Press). December 2008.
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How Integrated Did We Become During the 1990s? LINK
Although levels of residential segregation remain undeniably high, this emphasis on segregation can obscure the fact that integrated communities do exist and, as one of the key findings here demonstrate, are becoming more, not less, common.
Ingrid Gould Ellen. Fragile Rights Within Cities (Rowman and Littlefield). December 2007.
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Lucas vs. The Green Machine LINK
This title provides a law student with an enriched understanding of twelve leading property cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and policy factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained noteworthy status. The volume is suitable for adoption as a supplement in a first-year property course, or as a text for an advanced seminar.
Been, Vicki. Property Stories (Foundation Press). January 2004.
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The Role of Cities in Providing Housing Assistance: A New York Perspective LINK
Schill, Michael H., Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Ioan Voicu. City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer (Edward Elger Press). December 2003.
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Do Neighborhoods Matter and Why? LINK
“Choosing a Better Life?” is the first distillation of years of research on the MTO project, the largest rigorously designed social experiment to investigate the consequences of moving low-income public housing residents to low-poverty neighborhoods. In this book, leading social scientists and policy experts examine the legislative and political foundations of the project, analyze the effects of MTO on lives of the families involved, and explore lessons learned from this important piece of U.S. social policy
Ingrid Gould Ellen & Margery Turner. Choosing A Better Life? A Social Experiment in Leaving Poverty Behind: Evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity Program (The Urban Institute Press). December 2003.
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What Have We Learned from HUD’s Moving to Opportunity Program? LINK
“Choosing a Better Life?” is the first distillation of years of research on the MTO project, the largest rigorously designed social experiment to investigate the consequences of moving low-income public housing residents to low-poverty neighborhoods. In this book, leading social scientists and policy experts examine the legislative and political foundations of the project, analyze the effects of MTO on lives of the families involved, and explore lessons learned from this important piece of U.S. social policy
Ellen, Ingrid Gould and Margery Turner. Choosing a Better Life? A Social Experiment in Leaving Poverty Behind: Evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity Program (Urban Institute Press). May 2003.
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Will International Agreements Trump Local Environmental Law? LINK
This is a very recent movement, but one that has proceeded far enough to demonstrate the powerful role that local governments can play in the nation`s efforts to protect natural resources and to maintain environmental quality. The advent of local environmental law challenges practitioners and academics to describe this new field and explain its relationship to traditional concepts of environmental and land use law.
Been, Vicki. New Ground: The Advent of Local Environmental Law (Island Press). February 2003.
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The Finality Requirement in Takings Litigation after Palazzolo LINK
This new guide compiles and contrasts the public and private perspectives on the most controversial issues in takings law, written by leading practitioners who are involved in litigating these issues before the United States Supreme Court and other courts around the country, and by leading academics with extensive backgrounds in writing and practice in this area.
Been, Vicki. Taking Sides on Takings Issues (American Bar Association Publishing). October 2002.
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Regulatory Barriers to Housing Development in the United States LINK
Nothing provides as much material for comparative legal study as the great variety of rule-making that characterizes land law. Land law is perhaps the only legal area in which the leveling march of globalized uniformity has had to yield to the progressive development of local customary law.
Schill, Michael H., Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Ioan Voicu. Land Law in Comparative Perspective (Aspen Publishers). September 2002.
affordable housing, housing prices, land use, neighborhoods, subsidized housing
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How New York Housing Policies Are Different—and Maybe Why LINK
Ellen, Ingrid Gould and Brendan O’Flaherty. Forthcoming: The Welfare State in New York City (Russell Sage Foundation). December 2001.
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New White Flight? The Dynamics of Neighborhood Change in the 1980s LINK
The rapid rise in immigration over the past few decades has transformed the American social landscape, while the need to understand its impact on society has led to a burgeoning research literature. Predominantly non-European and of varied cultural, social, and economic backgrounds, the new immigrants present analytic challenges that cannot be wholly met by traditional immigration studies.
Ellen, Ingrid Gould. Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, pp. 423-441 (Russell Sage Foundation). January 2000.
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Spatial Stratification within US Metropolitan Areas LINK
In most metropolitan areas, central cities and older, inner-ring suburbs tend to have lower-skilled and less affluent populations, lower tax bases, as well as more deteriorated housing stocks and infrastructures, than their newer, outer-ring suburban neighbors. And the segregation becomes even more apparent if comparisons are made across individual neighborhoods within these jurisdictions.
Ellen, Ingrid Gould. Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America (National Academy Press). March 1999.
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The Housing Court’s Role in Maintaining Affordable Housing LINK
Galowitz, Paula. Housing and Community Development in New York City: Facing the Future, pp. 177-201 (State University of New York Press). December 1998.
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Education Finance LINK
The Handbook of Public Finance provides a definitive source, reference, and text for the field of public finance. In 18 chapters it surveys the state of the art - the tradition and breadth of the field but also its current status and recent developments.
Schwartz, Amy Ellen, Leanna Stiefel, and Ross Rubenstein. The Handbook of Public Finance (Marcel Dekker Publishers). January 1998.
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The Centralization and Decentralization of Government and Taxes LINK
Can today’s policy makers and researchers effectively draw on the ideas of 19th-century philosopher Henry George to help solve 21st-century problems? This compendium presents eight essays by scholars who demonstrate that many of George’s ideas about land use and taxation remain valuable today. Policy makers still face Henry George’s fundamental challenge—to balance private property rights and public interests in land.
Netzer, Dick. Land Use and Taxation (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy). May 1997.
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