A M Santiago
Biographic Data
| ID | 24149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A M Santiago |
| GIVEN NAMES | A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Santiago |
| SIGNATURE | SANTIAGO A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1983-3937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The impacts of neighborhood earnings and wealth profiles on families’ residential selections
Increasing residential segregation of affluent families is widespread internationally, raising concerns about “opportunity hoarding” and the perpetuation of social inequalities. Yet, we do not know whether this phenomenon is driven by families selecting neighborhoods characterized by their profiles of earnings or wealth. We model neighborhood selection during the 1993–2017 period by native Norwegian parents of children born 1992–2003, using a con…
Spatial Opportunity Structures and Final Home Leaving Among Young Adults in Norway
Previous studies in Norway found that leaving the parental home in young adulthood was facilitated by a generous welfare state coupled with cultural and normative values emphasising early independence and residential stability. Nonetheless, little is known about how spatial opportunity structures in Norway have contributed to recent patterns of home leaving. Using longitudinal register data for the period between 1991 and 2018, we assess the infl…
Neighbourhood selection by natives and immigrants
Substantial recent influxes of immigrants have transformed metropolitan housing markets across Europe, North America, and Australia. Where and under what physical and sociodemographic conditions these new residents and their children live influence their life chances and societal inequalities and cohesion. Using population register data, we estimate conditional logit models of neighbourhood selections jointly stratified by immigrant and income st…
Heterogeneous neighbourhood effects on the educational attainments of native Norwegian and immigrant-descendant female and male young adults
Using longitudinal register data from Oslo, Norway, this article examines how cumulative childhood exposure to family and neighbourhood contexts influences the educational attainments of young adults, paying special attention to how these determinants vary by gender and immigrant status. Specifically, we examine how neighbourhood socioeconomic and immigrant context experienced during childhood affects the completion of secondary school and univer…
Decomposing educational disparities between immigrants and natives in Oslo
Identifying the determinants of social mobility for children of non-Western immigrants is of vital concern as immigration pressures grow across the West. Prior studies have minimized the role of place as one such determinant but suffers from several unsupportable assumptions. We interrogate this issue by quantifying the relative contributions made by family and neighborhood characteristics in explaining the educational attainments of young adults…
Serious Mortgage Arrears among Immigrant Descendant and Native Participants in a Low-Income Public Starter Mortgage Program
Although low-income homeownership programs serving vulnerable families at the lower end of the income distribution have been the focus of housing policy in many countries over the past 50 years, little is known about the post-origination experiences of immigrant families participating in these programs. Notably absent from the extant literature are studies examining the sustainability of homeownership among immigrant homebuyers and their suscepti…
Family Self-Sufficiency Program Outcomes for Participants Enrolling During and After the Great Recession
Utilizing administrative data from the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program operated by the Denver Housing Authority, four program outcomes, (a) savings and escrow growth, (b) credit and debt reduction, (c) employment and earnings, and (d) positive exits from subsidized housing, are examined to assess if any differences exist between participants ( n = 424) who enrolled during or after the Great Recession. Propensity score matching with replacem…
Assessing the Impact of Neighborhood Conditions on Neurodevelopmental Disorders during Childhood
Nearly three out of ten neurodevelopmental disabilities in the United States have been linked to environmental conditions, prompting emerging lines of research examining the role of the neighborhood on children's developmental outcomes. Utilizing data from a natural experiment in Denver, this study quantifies the impact of exposure to varied neighborhood contexts on the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders over the course of childhood. Our a…
Cumulative Exposure to Neighborhood Conditions and Substance Use Initiation among Low-Income Latinx and African American Adolescents
The findings suggest the need for further research on the relationship between exposure to neighborhood social disorder and adolescent substance use initiation in order to develop and implement community-based prevention and intervention programs to reduce substance use initiation and facilitate healthy adolescent development
Does pre-purchase counseling help low-income buyers choose and sustain homeownership in socially mixed destination neighborhoods
For 3 decades, U.S. federal housing policies have sought to increase access to socially diverse and high opportunity neighborhoods and improve the quality of life for low-income families. Absent from current discussions of the costs and benefits of socially mixed communities is the potential value that they may have to low-income families seeking to purchase their own homes. In this paper, we examine the extent to which participation in homebuyer…
Creating mixed communities through housing policies
This introductory review essay examines some of the key concepts and approaches framing the ongoing debate around mixed communities and housing regeneration policies around the world. This review summarizes past positive and negative side effects of social mix reported in the extant international literature. It then describes social mix housing policies in the Global East and the Global South, including China, Japan, South Korea, sub-Saharan Afri…
The storming of Washington, DC
On January 6, 2021, supporters of then-President Donald Trump attended a “Stop the Steal” rally hosted by the former President and his allies. They proceeded to march to the U.S. Capitol, with some
The enduring backlash against racial justice in the United States
No neighborhood left behind
We write this editorial as the world begins to reopen with the administration of 3.63 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines in more than 214 countries and territories around the globe. At the time of
The struggle for justice in communities continues
Community practice, social action, and the politics of pandemics
Joining millions across the globe, we write this editorial for the Journal of Community Practice while adhering to stay at home orders. Although frequently invoked during times of public safety con
More than just remembering the 100th anniversary of (White) women’s suffrage
The Journal of Community Practice is pleased to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. On August 18th, 1920, the US Congress ratified an amendment
Removing the knees from their necks
In the midst of a year of seemingly insurmountable struggles associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States and other countries across the globe are grappling with another deadly pandemic
Transforming our world
At the end of 2015, the United Nations released Transforming the World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development supporting a set of 17 goals aimed at eradicating what was identified as arguably
Community practice with immigrant and refugee populations
Community Practice Across Borders
Community development and community practice are rooted in two contractions of history. On the one hand, community development is part of the nation-building aspect of the state, but on the other h
Engaging Youth in Community Work
With this issue, the new editorial team (Anna Maria Santiago, Richard J. Smith, Paul Stuart, and Ana Sanroman) for the Journal of Community Practice officially begins its term, although we have bee
Is the Glass Half Full
How Living in the ‘Hood Affects Risky Behaviors Among Latino and African American Youth
Anna Maria Santiago, Eun Lye Lee, Jessica L. Lucero, Rebecca Wiersma, How Living in the ‘Hood Affects Risky Behaviors Among Latino and African American Youth, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spatial Foundations of Inequality (February 2017), pp. 170-209
Neighbourhood ethnic composition and outcomes for low-income Latino and African American children
The paper investigates the impact of ethnic segregation on the life chances of low-income African American and Latino children, focusing on whether it is the ethnic composition of the neighbourhood per se that matters or other, correlated aspects of the residential environment. The approach links the consequences of segregation and neighbourhood effects literatures by arguing that metropolitan segregation forces directly shape children’s intra-ne…
What’s the ’Hood Got to Do with It? Parental Perceptions about How Neighborhood Mechanisms Affect Their Children
During the past decade, a rapidly expanding body of empirical research has emerged that statistically links disadvantaged neighborhood environments with social and economic outcomes of low-income, minority children. Nonetheless, the mechanisms by which neighborhoods putatively affect children remain poorly understood. This article examines the perceptions of low-income parents regarding how their neighborhood might affect their children. We exami…
Cultural-Specific Gender Ideology and Wife Abuse in Mexican-Descent Families
The present study, which was designed to improve understanding of the context, patterns, and meanings of violence against wives, uses a standpoint-based approach which incorporates a symbolic interactionist method and a feminist perspective to examine wife abuse in Mexican-descent families. Findings from the study indicate that wife abuse occurs in the complex context of economic hardship, changes in gender role expectations and performances, and…
The Impact of Supportive Housing on Neighborhood Crime Rates
Quantitative and qualitative methods are employed to investigate the extent to which proximity to 14 supportive housing facilities opening in Denver from 1992 to 1995 affects crime rates. The econometric specification provides pre– and post– controls for selection bias as well as a spatial autocorrelation correction. Focus groups with homeowners living near supportive housing provide richer context for interpreting the econometric results. The fi…
Community practice, social action, and the politics of pandemics
Joining millions across the globe, we write this editorial for the Journal of Community Practice while adhering to stay at home orders. Although frequently invoked during times of public safety con
Fifty Years Later
> “There is no blight on American life so great as the enduring poverty in our great cities and of the still unseen poor in the rural and mountain regions. And, of course, in the larger world.” > > John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society ([1958] 1998:xii) It was images of poor families taken in rural Appalachia by photographers Billy Barnes, John Dominis, and Andrew Stern, coupled with the writings of The New York Times journalist Homer Bigart an…
Puerto Rican Segregation in the United States
Using a simultaneous equations model, this study examines cross-metropolitan variations in Puerto Rican residence and economic status. The study addresses the question: Are patterns of Puerto Rican residence a cause and/or consequence of Puerto Rican economic status? Our analytical approach is distinguished by its modeling of bi-directional causal relationships between residential location and income that are mediated partially by female headship…
Neighbourhood ethnic composition and outcomes for low-income Latino and African American children
The paper investigates the impact of ethnic segregation on the life chances of low-income African American and Latino children, focusing on whether it is the ethnic composition of the neighbourhood per se that matters or other, correlated aspects of the residential environment. The approach links the consequences of segregation and neighbourhood effects literatures by arguing that metropolitan segregation forces directly shape children’s intra-ne…
Elementary School Difficulties of Low-Income Latino and African American Youth
Do the geographic contexts in which disadvantaged children are raised influence whether they have difficulties in elementary school? We address this question by estimating Cox proportional hazard models with instrumental variable measures of context, using data for 410 low-income Latino and African American children who lived in Denver public housing before age six. The Denver Housing Authority’s procedure for allocating families to dwellings mim…
Moving from Public Housing to Homeownership
The goals of public housing have evolved from providing shelter to providing opportunities for escaping from welfare and buying one’s own home. Despite numerous federal policies aimed at enhancing resident self-sufficiency and homeownership through programs run by local public housing authorities, little is known about who participates and who succeeds. This study explores barriers to participation and success in an innovative resident self-suffi…
The enduring backlash against racial justice in the United States
Removing the knees from their necks
In the midst of a year of seemingly insurmountable struggles associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States and other countries across the globe are grappling with another deadly pandemic
Neighbourhood selection by natives and immigrants
Substantial recent influxes of immigrants have transformed metropolitan housing markets across Europe, North America, and Australia. Where and under what physical and sociodemographic conditions these new residents and their children live influence their life chances and societal inequalities and cohesion. Using population register data, we estimate conditional logit models of neighbourhood selections jointly stratified by immigrant and income st…
Adrift at the Margins of Urban Society
We quantify how social detachment (measured as neither working nor attending school) of low-income African-American and Latino young adults relates to their teen neighborhood conditions. Data come from retrospective surveys of Denver Housing Authority (DHA) households. Because DHA household allocation mimics quasirandom assignment to neighborhoods throughout Denver County, this program represents a natural experiment for overcoming geographic sel…
Responding to Community Crises
As I was finalizing the editorial for this issue, I thought about the myriad of crises, conflicts, and public tragedies that have affected communities across the globe during the first six months o
Low-Income Homeownership
Questions have been raised about the wisdom of low-income homeownership policies for many reasons. One potential reason to be skeptical: low-income homebuyers perhaps may be constrained to purchase homes in disadvantaged neighborhoods. This is a potential problem because home purchases in such neighborhoods: (1) may limit appreciation; (2) may reduce quality of life for adults; and (3) may militate against reputed advantages of homeownership for …
Creating mixed communities through housing policies
This introductory review essay examines some of the key concepts and approaches framing the ongoing debate around mixed communities and housing regeneration policies around the world. This review summarizes past positive and negative side effects of social mix reported in the extant international literature. It then describes social mix housing policies in the Global East and the Global South, including China, Japan, South Korea, sub-Saharan Afri…
Neighbourhood Crime and Scattered-site Public Housing
In this paper, an assessment is made of the extent to which proximity to 38 dispersed public housing sites opening in Denver during 1992-95 affected post-development levels and trends in neighbourhood crime rates. A new econometric specification incorporating pre- and post-controls for selection bias as well as spatial autocorrelation was employed to test for statistical relationships between the development of dispersed public housing sites and …
Financial Capability and Asset Building
This article was published in the Journal of Community Practice’s special issue on Financial Capability and Asset Building and was originally presented during the April 2015 conference,Financial Capability and Asset Building: Advancing Education, Research, and Practice in Social Work. The conference was hosted by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University of M…
Adolescent neighborhood context and young adult economic outcomes for low-income African Americans and Latinos
We quantify how young adult employment and educational outcomes for low-income African Americans and Latinos relate to their adolescent neighborhood conditions. Data come from surveys of Denver Housing Authority (DHA) households who lived in public housing scattered throughout Denver County. Because DHA allocations mimic random assignment to neighborhood, this program represents a natural experiment for overcoming geographic selection bias. We us…
The Effects of Childhood Exposure to Neighborhood and Community Violence
In any given year, more than 6 out of 10 children in the United States are exposed to some form of violence in the neighborhood, at school, or within the home; half of these children experience polyvictimization, or exposure to multiple forms of violence. Despite widespread concern about childhood exposure to violence, researchers continue to have remarkable gaps in their knowledge about causal pathways that link exposure to neighborhood or commu…
The Role of Acculturation in the Civic Engagement of Latino Immigrants
Despite continued growth and dispersion of the Latino immigrant population in the United States, the lingering effects of a sluggish national economy and growing anti-immigrant sentiments have contributed to ongoing marginalization and exclusion, further hindering their participation in American civic life. Despite these challenges, Latino immigrants have remained engaged, yet the factors and processes that facilitate participation in American so…
Heterogeneous neighbourhood effects on the educational attainments of native Norwegian and immigrant-descendant female and male young adults
Using longitudinal register data from Oslo, Norway, this article examines how cumulative childhood exposure to family and neighbourhood contexts influences the educational attainments of young adults, paying special attention to how these determinants vary by gender and immigrant status. Specifically, we examine how neighbourhood socioeconomic and immigrant context experienced during childhood affects the completion of secondary school and univer…
Improving the Effectiveness of Community-Based Interventions
At first glance, this issue might appear to be an eclectic bricolage of articles ranging from housing to food insecurity to community design centers. Although the topics covered in this issue are f
Employment of Low-Income African American and Latino Teens
We quantify how teen employment outcomes for low-income African Americans and Latinos relate to their neighborhood conditions during ages 14-17. Data come from surveys of Denver Housing Authority (DHA) households who have lived in public housing scattered throughout Denver County. Because DHA household allocation mimics random assignment to neighborhood, this program represents a natural experiment for overcoming geographic selection bias. Our lo…
Getting the Work Done - Even in Challenging Times
Explaining the Growth of Puerto Rican Poverty, 1970-1980
With data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census 1970 Public Use Samples and 1980 Public Use Microdata Sample tape files for 34 metropolitan statistical areas, the authors examine cross-metropolitan variations in Puerto Rican poverty, using an instrumental variables regression model. The analyses highlight the role of residential segregation and economic restructuring on Puerto Rican poverty in 1970 and 1980. Decomposition of changes during the 1970s…
Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy
Foreword - John H Stanfield II Restructuring and the New Inequality - Rebecca Morales and Frank Bonilla The Changing Economic Position of Latinos in the US Labor Market Since 1939 - Martin Carnoy, Hugh Daley and Raul Hinojosa The Illusion of Progress - Rebecca Morales and Paul Ong Latinos in Los Angeles Decline Within Decline - Andres Torres and Frank Bonilla The New York Perspective Economic Restructuring and the Process of Incorporation of Lati…
Puerto Rican Segregation in the United States
Using a simultaneous equations model, this study examines cross-metropolitan variations in Puerto Rican residence and economic status. The study addresses the question: Are patterns of Puerto Rican residence a cause and/or consequence of Puerto Rican economic status? Our analytical approach is distinguished by its modeling of bi-directional causal relationships between residential location and income that are mediated partially by female headship…
Cultural-Specific Gender Ideology and Wife Abuse in Mexican-Descent Families
The present study, which was designed to improve understanding of the context, patterns, and meanings of violence against wives, uses a standpoint-based approach which incorporates a symbolic interactionist method and a feminist perspective to examine wife abuse in Mexican-descent families. Findings from the study indicate that wife abuse occurs in the complex context of economic hardship, changes in gender role expectations and performances, and…
Assessing the property value impacts of the dispersed subsidy housing program in Denver
This study tests the hypothesis that the acquisition of existing property by the public housing authority and its subsequent rehabilitation and occupancy by subsidized tenants significantly reduced the property values of surrounding single-family homes in Denver during the 1990s. This assessment examined pre- and post-occupancy sales, while controlling for the idiosyncratic neighborhood, local public service, and zoning characteristics of the are…
Assessing the property value impacts of the dispersed subsidy housing program in Denver
The Impact of Supportive Housing on Neighborhood Crime Rates
Quantitative and qualitative methods are employed to investigate the extent to which proximity to 14 supportive housing facilities opening in Denver from 1992 to 1995 affects crime rates. The econometric specification provides pre– and post– controls for selection bias as well as a spatial autocorrelation correction. Focus groups with homeowners living near supportive housing provide richer context for interpreting the econometric results. The fi…
Neighbourhood Crime and Scattered-site Public Housing
In this paper, an assessment is made of the extent to which proximity to 38 dispersed public housing sites opening in Denver during 1992-95 affected post-development levels and trends in neighbourhood crime rates. A new econometric specification incorporating pre- and post-controls for selection bias as well as spatial autocorrelation was employed to test for statistical relationships between the development of dispersed public housing sites and …
Moving from Public Housing to Homeownership
The goals of public housing have evolved from providing shelter to providing opportunities for escaping from welfare and buying one’s own home. Despite numerous federal policies aimed at enhancing resident self-sufficiency and homeownership through programs run by local public housing authorities, little is known about who participates and who succeeds. This study explores barriers to participation and success in an innovative resident self-suffi…
What’s the ’Hood Got to Do with It? Parental Perceptions about How Neighborhood Mechanisms Affect Their Children
During the past decade, a rapidly expanding body of empirical research has emerged that statistically links disadvantaged neighborhood environments with social and economic outcomes of low-income, minority children. Nonetheless, the mechanisms by which neighborhoods putatively affect children remain poorly understood. This article examines the perceptions of low-income parents regarding how their neighborhood might affect their children. We exami…
Low-Income Homeownership
Questions have been raised about the wisdom of low-income homeownership policies for many reasons. One potential reason to be skeptical: low-income homebuyers perhaps may be constrained to purchase homes in disadvantaged neighborhoods. This is a potential problem because home purchases in such neighborhoods: (1) may limit appreciation; (2) may reduce quality of life for adults; and (3) may militate against reputed advantages of homeownership for …
Getting the Work Done - Even in Challenging Times
Riding Down the Up Escalator
Writing this editorial approximately six months into the Obama Administration's second term, I cannot help but think about how the new “normal” in our everyday lives as individuals, families and co
The Role of Acculturation in the Civic Engagement of Latino Immigrants
Despite continued growth and dispersion of the Latino immigrant population in the United States, the lingering effects of a sluggish national economy and growing anti-immigrant sentiments have contributed to ongoing marginalization and exclusion, further hindering their participation in American civic life. Despite these challenges, Latino immigrants have remained engaged, yet the factors and processes that facilitate participation in American so…
Teamwork, Teamwork… Team, Team, Team
Adrift at the Margins of Urban Society
We quantify how social detachment (measured as neither working nor attending school) of low-income African-American and Latino young adults relates to their teen neighborhood conditions. Data come from retrospective surveys of Denver Housing Authority (DHA) households. Because DHA household allocation mimics quasirandom assignment to neighborhoods throughout Denver County, this program represents a natural experiment for overcoming geographic sel…
The Effects of Childhood Exposure to Neighborhood and Community Violence
In any given year, more than 6 out of 10 children in the United States are exposed to some form of violence in the neighborhood, at school, or within the home; half of these children experience polyvictimization, or exposure to multiple forms of violence. Despite widespread concern about childhood exposure to violence, researchers continue to have remarkable gaps in their knowledge about causal pathways that link exposure to neighborhood or commu…
Responding to Community Crises
As I was finalizing the editorial for this issue, I thought about the myriad of crises, conflicts, and public tragedies that have affected communities across the globe during the first six months o
Adolescent neighborhood context and young adult economic outcomes for low-income African Americans and Latinos
We quantify how young adult employment and educational outcomes for low-income African Americans and Latinos relate to their adolescent neighborhood conditions. Data come from surveys of Denver Housing Authority (DHA) households who lived in public housing scattered throughout Denver County. Because DHA allocations mimic random assignment to neighborhood, this program represents a natural experiment for overcoming geographic selection bias. We us…
Elementary School Difficulties of Low-Income Latino and African American Youth
Do the geographic contexts in which disadvantaged children are raised influence whether they have difficulties in elementary school? We address this question by estimating Cox proportional hazard models with instrumental variable measures of context, using data for 410 low-income Latino and African American children who lived in Denver public housing before age six. The Denver Housing Authority’s procedure for allocating families to dwellings mim…
Employment of Low-Income African American and Latino Teens
We quantify how teen employment outcomes for low-income African Americans and Latinos relate to their neighborhood conditions during ages 14-17. Data come from surveys of Denver Housing Authority (DHA) households who have lived in public housing scattered throughout Denver County. Because DHA household allocation mimics random assignment to neighborhood, this program represents a natural experiment for overcoming geographic selection bias. Our lo…
Moving Beyond the Great Recession
More than 50 years after Lyndon Baines Johnson’s declaration of a War on Poverty and 7 years after the official end of the Great Recession, we find that US poverty rates hover around 15% and the ga
Revisiting the Past to Reinvent the Future
Building Knowledge and Theory for Community Practice
The Journal of Community Practice (JCP) began publication in 1994, as a project of the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA), an organization of scholars, educato
Fifty Years Later
> “There is no blight on American life so great as the enduring poverty in our great cities and of the still unseen poor in the rural and mountain regions. And, of course, in the larger world.” > > John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society ([1958] 1998:xii) It was images of poor families taken in rural Appalachia by photographers Billy Barnes, John Dominis, and Andrew Stern, coupled with the writings of The New York Times journalist Homer Bigart an…
Political science (36 works) · Sociology (36 works) · Economics (30 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (26 works) · Geography (23 works) · Law (20 works) · Law (20 works) · Demographic economics (18 works) · Economic growth (18 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (14 works)