Annual Housing Survey: 1976. Housing Characteristics for Selected Metropolitan Areas: Providence-Pawtucket-Warwick, Rhode Island-Massachusetts. Standard Metrpolitan Statistical Area

摘要

Statistics are presented on neighborhood and housing and household characteristics obtained from the 1976 - 1977 annual housing survey conducted in the Providence - Pawtucket - Warwick, R.I. - Mass., region, 1 of 20 standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSA's) selected for study by HUD. The survey was designed to provide timely data on a variety of housing concerns. Initial tables on general housing characteristics present data on all housing units in the area, new construction, units removed from the housing inventory, and owner - occupied or renter - occupied housing with Black or Spanish - surnamed heads of household. Tables of housing and neighborhood quality indicators center around occupancy and use characteristics and the availability of such services as garbage collection, housing deficiencies, failures in plumbing facilities and equipment, and selected neighborhood characteristics. Other tables cover the characteristics of owner - occupied and renter - occupied housing by family or primary individual income, the characteristics of owner - occupied housing by property value, and the characteristics of renter - occupied units by gross rent. Additional tables present data on the characteristics of all occupied housing units and units occupied by recent movers (i.e., households that moved into their units during the prior 12 months). The characteristics of the present unit for recent movers are cross - classified by the characteristics of the previous unit. The final group of tables presents data on the financial characteristics of all occupied housing units in terms of such indicators of housing and neighborhood quality as tenure, occupancy, structural deficiencies, failures in plumbing facilities and equipment, and selected neighborhood characteristics. Throughout the report, data are grouped by the general population and broken down for black and Spanish heads of household. Area classifications, definitions, and explanations of subject characteristics are appended, along with information on the source and reliability of the survey estimates. A table - finding guide is also provided.