Location and Racial Composition of Public Housing in the United States: AnAnalysis of the Racial Occupancy and Location of Public Housing Developments

摘要

The purpose of this report is to provide a current description of the racial andincome characteristics of residents in traditional public housing projects and an analysis of the characteristics of the census tracts or neighborhoods in which they are living. The report uses current data to describe the actual characteristics of the public housing residents and the neighborhoods in which they live to test the hypothesis that assisted households are exclusively concentrated in poor, disadvantaged, and minority communities. The project combines three databases-the MultiFamily Tenant Characteristics System (MTCS), the Project Address (Form 951) File, and 1990 Census tract data-to assess the concentration of assisted households in poor, disadvantaged, and minority communities.