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Identifier	Thesis 1619
Author	Keeney, Mark D
Title	Discrimination in the urban housing market of New Haven, Connecticut : 1960-1990 / Mark D. Keeney
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2000
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	From the mid-1950s to the present, social scientists have produced an everincreasing number of discourses on the topic of the concentration of urban poverty in the United States. Although broad agreement exists on the effects of urban property, social scientists are in disagreement on its origins. Contemporary research has contributed three well-received, yet antithetical explanations: The class-selective migration hypothesis of William Julius Wilson suggests that declining job opportunities and suburbanization of employment result in the concentration of poor blacks in urban ghettos. Charles Murray proposes that generous public aid programs, initiated in the 1960s, altered the economic incentives governing the behavior, spatial and otherwise, of poor black men and women. According to Douglas Massey, concentrated poverty among African-Americans is the result of racial discrimination in urban housing markets. This, he says, interacts with high and rising rates of black poverty to concentrate poverty geographically. With U. S. tract level census data from 1970, 1980, and 1990 and five statistical measures - evenness, exposure, clustering, centralization, and concentration - Massey empirically determines that racially discreet areas or concentrations occur in urban settings. He theorizes that these concentrations are the direct result of racial discrimination in urban housing markets. Using an approach similar to Massey's this research considers racial concentrations in the urban setting of New Haven, Connecticut. While the five statistical measures employed by Massey are also applied in this study, the geographic implications of the concentration measurement, in particular, are evident with the addition of a GIS analysis of the trends of African-Americans to live in certain locations in the city. Results of this study suggest that some aspects of racial concentrations observed elsewhere by Massey have occurred in New Haven. However, the research also suggests that components of the Murray and particularly Wilson hypotheses have occurred in New Haven as well. Furthermore, factors such as immigrant housing distribution patterns and the development of a mass transit system have also contributed to racial housing patterns.
Subject	Discrimination in housing -- Connecticut -- New Haven Housing -- Connecticut -- New Haven African Americans -- Housing -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Department	Department of Geography
Advisor	Sommers, Brian J.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	48115950
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