Background/Context: The United States is becoming increasingly racially and ethnically diverse, and increasingly racially isolated across race-ethnic boundaries. Researchers have argued that both diversity and racial isolation serve to undermine the social cohesion needed to bind American citizens to one another and to society at large. Focus of…

Background/Context: Perpetuation theory predicts that attending a racially segregated school paves the way for a lifetime of segregated experiences in neighborhoods, schools, and jobs. Research conducted in the 1970s and 1980s linked racial isolation in high schools with later racial isolation in many social settings among African-American…

Using Canadian census tract data, the relationship between population density and social pathology is explored. When effects of income and national origin have been removed building type is found to be a significant predictor of variation in social allowance and delinquency. It is argued that the number of individuals per unit space is less…

This paper uses 1980 Census data to assess the patterns of population redistribution and migration of Asian Americans. Analyzing migration flows, it argues that Asian Americans who immigrated to the United States before 1975 followed a national trend of regional population shift from the Northeast and the North Central to the West and South.…

This document presents the results of a survey designed to determine the living arrangements of college students in 1971. The 1971 data are compared with data elicited by a similar survey in 1966, and some comparisons are made with 1958 data. Highlights of the survey findings include: (1) College students were fairly evenly divided in their living…

Notes that in the reinvasion areas there is a consistent increase in home ownership for all census tracts over time. However, it is clear that it is only home ownership among the white population that is increasing. (Author)

Forces are at work tending to minimize the home-to-work distance; however, these forces favor white workers in Detroit more than members of the Negro labor force. Residential segregation is the major factor controlling the home-to-work distance minimization efforts of Negro workers. (RJ)

Provides a profile of the population to be housed at the beginning of the twenty-first century, an analysis of predictions by housing futurists, and near-term forecasts for the housing product and process. (JOW)

Reports on the 1974-76 results of the Annual Housing Survey concerned with why people move from one state to another. Major motivations for relocation included employment opportunities, change of climate, proximity of relatives, and retirement. Discusses implications for policies that focus on planned growth of given regions. (GC)

Proximity to public housing projects has a small but statistically significant effect on the incidence of violent crime. However, adjacency to public housing is a weak predictor of violent crime once the socioeconomic and housing characteristics of the adjacent blocks are taken into account. (Author/GC)

Examines cases of residential desegregation and the effects it has on school desegregation. (MK)

Overviews the history of school desegregation in Akron, Ohio. Discusses a recently decided court case in which parents from Akron alleged that intentional segregated housing patterns contributed to school segregation. (MK)

In Birmingham, Alabama, more all White and all Black neighborhoods were found in 1977 than in 1970. White population increased where the prospect of having Black neighbors was low and housing units were increasing in number, whereas Black population increased in neighborhoods decreasing in terms of numbers of housing units. (Author/GC)

Examines the neighborhood contact hypothesis, which states that interracial neighborhood contact helps break down prejudice. Data from the Multicity Study of Urban Inequality indicate that neighborhood contact affects the attitudes of Whites towards Blacks only if this contact is with Blacks of the same or higher social status. Contact with white…

Context and Purpose: Rural households report high fire-related mortality and injury rates, but few studies have examined the risk factors for fires. This study aims to identify occupant and household characteristics that are associated with residential fires in a rural cohort. Methods: Of 1,005 households contacted in a single rural county, 691…