A study of black migration, examining the aspirations and behavior of homemakers in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan Texas, was made in this report. Data were collected from interviews with 553 homemakers. Factors examined in the analysis included type of residential area, homemaker's age, tenure status of the household, reported place of…

While there were substantial improvements in housing quality between 1960 and 1978, racial differences in housing quality, as measured by structural deficiency, crowding, and age of housing unit persisted over the two decades regardless of socioeconomic status, family composition, and geographic regions. (Author/LHW)

Explores the differences in estimating the impact of school desegregation on residential integration. Definitions of residential integration and the formulae by which they are calculated will substantially affect conclusions. (LHW)

Used data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of mature men (N=3,487) to estimate the incidence of extended households during middle age. Over the 10 years of this study, 20 percent of white and 50 percent of Black middle-aged couples were found to have formed extended households. (JAC)

This study examines the search behavior of 380 intra-urban residential migrants, who were interviewed within four months of moving to a new location. Data on all houses searched are included, as well as the actual house selected. The results indicate residential search behavior is a minimizing process. (BT)

Discusses whether the values about place of residence, nature of home, and other housing related issues which are so different among social classes that socioeconomically mixed neighborhoods are viable or not. Review of studies showed that social class does not explain adequately the value differences that prevail in urban America. (Author/RJ)

A-95 is the designation of an instructional memorandum circulated by the Federal Office of Management and Budget Control which authorizes various State and regional agencies to review and comment on all applications for Federal funding. (Author/JM)

Little has been done to systematize and institutionalize the experimentation, demonstration, and dissemination potential for education in new communities. (Author)

Provides an ethnographic description of kinship and residential patterns among Blacks in the South Carolina Sea Islands. Indicates how the family structure of this group differs from that of United States mainland Whites and is similar to that of Blacks in Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S. (MJL)

Presents data regarding income and educational level of Blacks who moved into previously White residential areas in New York City. Finds different patterns of racial succession in tracts near areas of Black concentration, areas distant from Black ghettos, and White residential sections with many recently constructed rental units. (Author/GC)

Assesses the relationship of change in neighborhood ethnic composition and 1970 psychiatric hospitalization rates for persons born in Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, the U.S.S.R., and Italy. Concludes that such neighborhood change was unrelated to psychiatric hospitalization rates of the foreign born. Discusses policy implications and…

A national survey of 104 community residence homes for the developmentally disabled attempted to monitor the exodus from such homes and to determine what alternatives are available to those who leave them. (DLS)

The effects of such demographic variables as the baby boom and childless marriages on the demand for urban housing are discussed. (RLV)

Important demographic trends in the United States include 1) the population's changing age profile, 2) the tendency for young people to remain single longer, 3) the widening mortality differential between the sexes, and 4) reversal of migration trends. Available from: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Box 211, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,…