Redlining undermines the neighborhood schools in the city and erodes the tax base for education. It also helps to provide a place for the higher social classes to flee, robbing the city of the populations essential for creating diverse school systems. (Author/AM)

Used longitudinal data to assess effects of marriage, divorce, and widowhood on immediate relocation and on subsequent mobility patterns. Results demonstrated substantial impact of changes in marital status on mobility. Mobility rates were highest among newly married, almost as high in years of separation or divorce, and very low in first year of…

Compared elders living in two types of caregiving households and explored their level of depression in each setting. Results indicated that depression level was similar for those residing with a spouse or child/grandchild as caregiver. Mitigating factors included length of time in residence and noneconomic contribution to the household. (NRB)

Examines how traditional family life-cycle stages are associated with three categories of variables: residential satisfaction, community integration, and risk. Results suggest that there are differences by life-cycle stage in measures representing each category. The nature of associations differed depending upon the specific variable studied.…

The results of this study are consistent with those of earlier research in which different living arrangements were found to have no demonstrable effect upon the academic achievement of college students. (Author)

Describes a variety of alternative living arrangements at the University of Delaware, ranging from traditional dormitories and high-rise apartment buildings to coeducational halls, language houses, honors halls and coops. (CJ)

Data gathered within the Kalamazoo Urbanized Area indicate that white attitudes are significantly related to both: (1) the level of interaction between whites and blacks, and (2) the distance between residence and the Negro neighborhood. When control is made for interaction, relationship between attitude and distance is greatly weakened,…

To test perceptual responses, 120 subjects viewed 12 experimental and one controlled housing environments. Three levels of building form diversity were combined with four levels of space diversity in the experimental environments. Results indicated that amount of visual coverage of the field of view increased significantly with increases in both…

Study data suggest that significant variations in many dimenslons of college life are related to types of residence. (Author)

Describes residence hall complex at Syracuse University which possesses unique attribute of being the only facility of its kind in the country which is adjacent to and shares common buildings with a home for senior citizens. This arrangement has made possible a variety of relationships between university students and the older residents of Toomey…

Presents a comparative analysis of changing ethnic residential distributions from 1940-1970 to identify recently evolved forms of ethnic settlement in the Detroit (Michigan) metropolitan area. Identifies and classifies contemporary types of ethnic communities to expand the knowledge of ethnic settlement. (MK)

The increasing divorce rate and the decreasing incidence of co-residence by aging parents and their adult offspring are two behavior changes which doomsayers have cited to predict the downfall of the family. These trends are examples, however, of the hazards in emotional interpretations of social behavior. (Author/GC)