William M Rohe
Biographic Data
| ID | 2086985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Rohe |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rohe |
| SIGNATURE | ROHE W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health: If So, How
Problem, research strategy, and findings It is often suggested that housing assistance helps adults overcome mental health challenges, yet researchers have long struggled to unravel the complex psychological pathways that explain whether and how housing assistance affects mental health. We advance the literature by testing for a direct association between housing assistance and two mental health outcomes: depression and anxiety. We also tested fo…
Health and employment among young adults receiving federal housing assistance
Since the 1980s, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has implemented various “self-sufficiency” demonstrations aimed at supporting employment among federal housing assistance clients. A concern associated with these demonstrations is that adults in poor health will be either excluded from these programs or penalized for not meeting program directives to obtain employment. This concern speaks to the ongoing debate about the impor…
Predicting Labor-Force Participation Among Work-Able Public Housing Residents
Critics of U.S. public housing often argue that the program discourages nonemployed residents from looking for work, yet little research has actually explored how public housing residents make decisions about whether to look for work. Thus, this article explores what factors distinguish nonemployed residents who are in the labor force (actively looking for work) from those who are out of the labor force (not actively looking for work). Relying on…
Neighborhood Opportunity and Satisfaction Among Housing Choice Voucher Recipients: A Subjective Well-Being Perspective
This study analyzes how different neighborhood opportunity characteristics are associated with Housing Choice Voucher recipients’ subjective well-being, as measured by neighborhood satisfaction. We focus on this topic because subjective well-being is linked to a variety of important outcomes, such as health, productivity, and social relationships. Thus, a complete understanding of how opportunity neighborhoods impact low-income households’ lives …
First-time homebuying: Attitudes and behaviors of low-income renters through the financial crisis
We use psychological theory to investigate how attitudes toward homebuying relate to first-time home purchases over the past decade. Homeownership rates in the US have dropped to 20-year lows, but whether views toward homebuying shifted due to the financial crisis is not known because studies have not compared attitudes for the same respondents pre- and post-crisis. We address this gap with 2004–2014 panel data from low-income renters. We find th…
Finding Hope: Changes in depressive symptomology following relocation from distressed public housing
Mobilizing social capital: Which informal and formal supports affect employment outcomes for Hope VI residents
Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examines the relationship between informal social support and formal support services and employment outcomes among residents of a public housing development relocated as part of a HOPE VI project in Charlotte, North Carolina. Informal social supports are resources accessible through family and friends within a neighborhood and formal support services are provided by case managers and service providers. …
Inclusionary Housing in International Perspective: Affordable Housing, Social Inclusion and Land Value Recapture Edited by Nico Calavita and Alan Mallach
Nico Calavita and Alan Mallach (eds.) Inclusionary Housing in International Perspective: Affordable Housing, Social Inclusion and Land Value Recapture (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Poli
Entrenched Hybridity in Public Housing Agencies in the USA
In this paper, we build on the extant literature on housing social enterprises and hybrid models of public housing delivery. We trace the evolution of US housing policy toward greater hybridity, focusing on three dimensions of hybridity. Drawing from a case study of the Charlotte Housing Authority in North Carolina, we showcase two housing programs, HOPE VI and Moving to Work, in order to highlight current innovations in the provision of housing …
From Local to Global: One Hundred Years of Neighborhood Planning
Problem: Over the past 100 years, city planners have used neighborhood planning to address a variety of vexing social problems such as community disintegration, economic marginalization, and environmental degradation. To date, there has been no comprehensive review and critique of these planning initiatives and how they have influenced the profession. Purpose: This article traces the history of neighborhood planning in the United States to learn …
Chasing the American Dream: New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership
Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an important public policy goal for more than a century. In recent years there has been a clear shift of emphasis among policymakers from a focus on providing affordable rental units to providing affordable homeownership opportunities. Due in part to programs introduced by the Clinton and Bush administrations, the nation's homeownership rate is currently …
Do First-Time Home Buyers Improve Their Neighborhood Quality
This study examines the changes in neighborhood quality in communities where low-income buyers have recently purchased homes. Three questions are addressed: Do lower-income buyers buy in higher quality neighborhoods than the ones in which they rented? Are lower-income buyers locating in higher quality neighborhoods than a comparison group of continuing renters? Are the neighborhoods of new buyers improving or deteriorating relative to those of co…
Neighborhood Characteristics Moderate Effects of Caregiving on Glucose Functioning
Objective: Adverse neighborhood environments and caregiving for a relative with dementia are both stressors that have been associated with poor health. The present study examined the extent to which three self-report measures of neighborhood characteristics interact with caregiving status (caregiver versus noncaregiver) to modify an important stress related health outcome: plasma glucose. Methods: The study sample consisted of 147 community recru…
Individual Development Accounts: Participants’ Characteristics and Success
Asset-building strategies have been touted as a new approach to helping low-income families achieve economic independence. By providing incentives to save and invest in an asset—such as a home, a business, or additional education—Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) hope to help lower-income families advance economically. Using the data collected on 21 IDA programs in North Carolina, this article addresses the characteristics of the persons ser…
Using Public Housing to Achieve Self-Sufficiency: Can We Predict Success
In the United States since the mid-1980s, self-sufficiency programs have sought to transform public housing developments from permanent housing into way stations for low-income people. This article presents exploratory research on the predictors of success in these programs. Statistical analysis of longitudinal survey data from participants in an early public housing self-sufficiency program points to lack of previous welfare experience and the p…
Awareness of community-oriented policing and neighborhood perceptions in five small to midsize cities
Organizational Changes among Cdcs: Assessing the Impacts and Navigating the Challenges
Since the 1970s, community development corporations (CDCs) have gained skills, visibility, and prominence in their efforts to rebuild very low-income distressed communities. While the net number of organizations has increased, there has been a certain degree of flux, with some organizations going out of business, while new ones have been created. Although many CDCs are financially sound, some are facing significant financial problems that threate…
Home Ownership and Access to Opportunity
Home ownership and access to opportunity are foundations of the American ethos. While little research has explicitly examined a relationship between home ownership and opportunity, considerable empirical work has examined how home ownership impacts important elements of local opportunity structures as well as individual subjective perceptions of those structures. Available evidence suggests that home ownership may affect the opportunity structure…
The Performance of Non-profit Housing Developments in the United States
Over the past two decades, non-profit organisations have played an increasingly important role in meeting the housing needs of low and moderate-income families. Not enough is known, however, about the performance of the housing developments sponsored by non-profit organisations. The purposes of the research described in this paper were: to assess the performance of a sample of housing developments sponsored by non-profit organisations in the US; …
Factors Influencing the Performance of Community Development Corporations
(1999). Factors Influencing the Performance of Community Development Corporations. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 325-339
Social capital and neighborhood stability: An empirical investigation
There is a growing consensus among urban analysts that inner‐city neighborhoods suffer from a lack of social capital. Because these areas do not have a strong social infrastructure in place to support successful revitalization efforts, urban policy recommendations now call for developing social capital in the worst‐off parts of our cities. However, this consensus has been reached without any empirical analysis of the effect of social capital on u…
Long-Term Effects of Homeownership on the Self-Perceptions and Social Interaction of Low-Income Persons
A variety of public, private and non-profit organizations have developed programs to assist low-income families purchase homes. These programs are often justified on the grounds that homeownership has a number of social and-psychological benefits. On the individual level, homeowners are said to enjoy higher social status and self-esteem, increased sense of control, and higher levels of life satisfaction. On the societal level, homeowners are said…
Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 15
Homeownership and neighborhood stability
A major objective of many neighborhood revitalization programs is to increase homeownership. Conventional wisdom holds that this is one of the best ways to stabilize areas in decline. This article questions convention by presenting a conceptual model of how homeownership rates might affect various indicators of neighborhood stability and by determining whether there is support for this model in the literature. The article also presents an origina…
Neighborhood Change and Urban Policy
Theories of neighborhood change have concentrated on explaining the process within one disciplinary paradigm despite repeated calls for a model with a multidisciplinary perspective. Consequently, policies to stabilize neighborhoods tend to be theoretically myopic with respect to their recommended course of action. This article provides a synthetic model of neighborhood change based on three major schools of neighborhood change: ecological, subcul…
Neighborhood Change and Urban Policy
Theories of neighborhood change have concentrated on explaining the process within one disciplinary paradigm despite repeated calls for a model with a multidisciplinary perspective. Consequently, policies to stabilize neighborhoods tend to be theoretically myopic with respect to their recommended course of action. This article provides a synthetic model of neighborhood change based on three major schools of neighborhood change: ecological, subcul…
Home Ownership and Access to Opportunity
Home ownership and access to opportunity are foundations of the American ethos. While little research has explicitly examined a relationship between home ownership and opportunity, considerable empirical work has examined how home ownership impacts important elements of local opportunity structures as well as individual subjective perceptions of those structures. Available evidence suggests that home ownership may affect the opportunity structure…
Safety in urban neighborhoods: A comparison of physical characteristics and informal territorial control in high and low crime neighborhoods
Entrenched Hybridity in Public Housing Agencies in the USA
In this paper, we build on the extant literature on housing social enterprises and hybrid models of public housing delivery. We trace the evolution of US housing policy toward greater hybridity, focusing on three dimensions of hybridity. Drawing from a case study of the Charlotte Housing Authority in North Carolina, we showcase two housing programs, HOPE VI and Moving to Work, in order to highlight current innovations in the provision of housing …
Individual Development Accounts: Participants’ Characteristics and Success
Asset-building strategies have been touted as a new approach to helping low-income families achieve economic independence. By providing incentives to save and invest in an asset—such as a home, a business, or additional education—Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) hope to help lower-income families advance economically. Using the data collected on 21 IDA programs in North Carolina, this article addresses the characteristics of the persons ser…
Awareness of community-oriented policing and neighborhood perceptions in five small to midsize cities
Finding Hope: Changes in depressive symptomology following relocation from distressed public housing
Mobilizing social capital: Which informal and formal supports affect employment outcomes for Hope VI residents
Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examines the relationship between informal social support and formal support services and employment outcomes among residents of a public housing development relocated as part of a HOPE VI project in Charlotte, North Carolina. Informal social supports are resources accessible through family and friends within a neighborhood and formal support services are provided by case managers and service providers. …
Do First-Time Home Buyers Improve Their Neighborhood Quality
This study examines the changes in neighborhood quality in communities where low-income buyers have recently purchased homes. Three questions are addressed: Do lower-income buyers buy in higher quality neighborhoods than the ones in which they rented? Are lower-income buyers locating in higher quality neighborhoods than a comparison group of continuing renters? Are the neighborhoods of new buyers improving or deteriorating relative to those of co…
Organizational Changes among Cdcs: Assessing the Impacts and Navigating the Challenges
Since the 1970s, community development corporations (CDCs) have gained skills, visibility, and prominence in their efforts to rebuild very low-income distressed communities. While the net number of organizations has increased, there has been a certain degree of flux, with some organizations going out of business, while new ones have been created. Although many CDCs are financially sound, some are facing significant financial problems that threate…
First-time homebuying: Attitudes and behaviors of low-income renters through the financial crisis
We use psychological theory to investigate how attitudes toward homebuying relate to first-time home purchases over the past decade. Homeownership rates in the US have dropped to 20-year lows, but whether views toward homebuying shifted due to the financial crisis is not known because studies have not compared attitudes for the same respondents pre- and post-crisis. We address this gap with 2004–2014 panel data from low-income renters. We find th…
Factors Influencing the Performance of Community Development Corporations
(1999). Factors Influencing the Performance of Community Development Corporations. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 325-339
Health and employment among young adults receiving federal housing assistance
Since the 1980s, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has implemented various “self-sufficiency” demonstrations aimed at supporting employment among federal housing assistance clients. A concern associated with these demonstrations is that adults in poor health will be either excluded from these programs or penalized for not meeting program directives to obtain employment. This concern speaks to the ongoing debate about the impor…
Using Public Housing to Achieve Self-Sufficiency: Can We Predict Success
In the United States since the mid-1980s, self-sufficiency programs have sought to transform public housing developments from permanent housing into way stations for low-income people. This article presents exploratory research on the predictors of success in these programs. Statistical analysis of longitudinal survey data from participants in an early public housing self-sufficiency program points to lack of previous welfare experience and the p…
The Performance of Non-profit Housing Developments in the United States
Over the past two decades, non-profit organisations have played an increasingly important role in meeting the housing needs of low and moderate-income families. Not enough is known, however, about the performance of the housing developments sponsored by non-profit organisations. The purposes of the research described in this paper were: to assess the performance of a sample of housing developments sponsored by non-profit organisations in the US; …
National Housing Policy: A National Policy Perspective on Three Strategic Issues
Safety in urban neighborhoods: A comparison of physical characteristics and informal territorial control in high and low crime neighborhoods
Participation in Community Watch Programs
Community watch programs are spreading rapidly across the country. Based on a sample of residents in five SMSAs, this study addresses the questions: Who is aware of these programs in their local area? Who is participating in these programs? Why are they participating? The results indicate that those with higher incomes and those who are integrated into their community are more likely to be aware of community watch programs. Participation in these…
Planning with neighborhoods
Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighborhoods through local organizations. They also assist residents in reviewing projects developed by city agencies. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighborhood planning programs and in-depth case studies of Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, St. Paul, Wilmington, N.C., and Raleigh, Planning with Neighborhoods offers the first comprehensive descript…
Fear and Reactions to Crime: A Revised Model
Fear and reactions to crime have been identified as important factors shaping our communities. In response to local crime, people can become fearful of personal victimization and avoid potentially threatening situations. This response can have an atomizing effect on communities leading to out-migration. Two models have been offered to explain fear and reactions to crime: the victimization model and the social control model. This article examines …
Deconcentration of Public Housing: Effects on Residents' Satisfaction with their Living Environments and their Fear of Crime
Dispersal of public housing from inner-city areas has been advocated widely since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Using data from a comparative study of eight public-housing developments (four located in inner-city areas and four located outside of the inner city), we provide evidence that deconcentration of public housing provides some benefits for low-income, single-parent households. Compared with inner-city residents, those living in…
Rejoinder to Webber and Klammer
National Housing Policy: A National Policy Perspective on Three Strategic Issues
Housing Adjustments among Older Home Owners
Older home owners who have more housing than they need yet also have difficulty meeting other basic needs-who are housing rich and income poor-may have the most incentive to adjust their housing conditions to augment their postretirement income. A test of a revised model of housing adjustment is presented that indicates that, indeed, such households are more likely to undertake both moving and nonmoving adjustments than are other households. The …
The Effects of Homeownership: On the Self-Esteem, Perceived Control and Life Satisfaction of Low-Income People
A variety of claims have been made concerning the social benefits of homeownership. This paper describes research designed to assess the impacts of homeownership on the self-esteem, perceived control and life satisfaction of low-income persons. The longitudinal study assessed changes in these three constructs, pre- and post ownership, and compared them to those in a control group of continuing renters. The findings indicate that, relative to the …
The Impact of Home Ownership on the Social and Political Involvement of Low-Income People
Supporters of subsidized home-ownership programs have made claims concerning the benefits of home ownership. Home owners are said to be more involved in social and political affairs, including neighboring and participation in community organizations. The authors test these claims using longitudinal data collected on groups of low-income home buyers and low-income renters in Baltimore. The results indicate that home buyers are less likely to neigh…
Homeownership and neighborhood stability
A major objective of many neighborhood revitalization programs is to increase homeownership. Conventional wisdom holds that this is one of the best ways to stabilize areas in decline. This article questions convention by presenting a conceptual model of how homeownership rates might affect various indicators of neighborhood stability and by determining whether there is support for this model in the literature. The article also presents an origina…
Neighborhood Change and Urban Policy
Theories of neighborhood change have concentrated on explaining the process within one disciplinary paradigm despite repeated calls for a model with a multidisciplinary perspective. Consequently, policies to stabilize neighborhoods tend to be theoretically myopic with respect to their recommended course of action. This article provides a synthetic model of neighborhood change based on three major schools of neighborhood change: ecological, subcul…
Long-Term Effects of Homeownership on the Self-Perceptions and Social Interaction of Low-Income Persons
A variety of public, private and non-profit organizations have developed programs to assist low-income families purchase homes. These programs are often justified on the grounds that homeownership has a number of social and-psychological benefits. On the individual level, homeowners are said to enjoy higher social status and self-esteem, increased sense of control, and higher levels of life satisfaction. On the societal level, homeowners are said…
Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 15
Social capital and neighborhood stability: An empirical investigation
There is a growing consensus among urban analysts that inner‐city neighborhoods suffer from a lack of social capital. Because these areas do not have a strong social infrastructure in place to support successful revitalization efforts, urban policy recommendations now call for developing social capital in the worst‐off parts of our cities. However, this consensus has been reached without any empirical analysis of the effect of social capital on u…
Factors Influencing the Performance of Community Development Corporations
(1999). Factors Influencing the Performance of Community Development Corporations. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 325-339
The Performance of Non-profit Housing Developments in the United States
Over the past two decades, non-profit organisations have played an increasingly important role in meeting the housing needs of low and moderate-income families. Not enough is known, however, about the performance of the housing developments sponsored by non-profit organisations. The purposes of the research described in this paper were: to assess the performance of a sample of housing developments sponsored by non-profit organisations in the US; …
Home Ownership and Access to Opportunity
Home ownership and access to opportunity are foundations of the American ethos. While little research has explicitly examined a relationship between home ownership and opportunity, considerable empirical work has examined how home ownership impacts important elements of local opportunity structures as well as individual subjective perceptions of those structures. Available evidence suggests that home ownership may affect the opportunity structure…
Organizational Changes among Cdcs: Assessing the Impacts and Navigating the Challenges
Since the 1970s, community development corporations (CDCs) have gained skills, visibility, and prominence in their efforts to rebuild very low-income distressed communities. While the net number of organizations has increased, there has been a certain degree of flux, with some organizations going out of business, while new ones have been created. Although many CDCs are financially sound, some are facing significant financial problems that threate…
Neighborhood Characteristics Moderate Effects of Caregiving on Glucose Functioning
Objective: Adverse neighborhood environments and caregiving for a relative with dementia are both stressors that have been associated with poor health. The present study examined the extent to which three self-report measures of neighborhood characteristics interact with caregiving status (caregiver versus noncaregiver) to modify an important stress related health outcome: plasma glucose. Methods: The study sample consisted of 147 community recru…
Individual Development Accounts: Participants’ Characteristics and Success
Asset-building strategies have been touted as a new approach to helping low-income families achieve economic independence. By providing incentives to save and invest in an asset—such as a home, a business, or additional education—Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) hope to help lower-income families advance economically. Using the data collected on 21 IDA programs in North Carolina, this article addresses the characteristics of the persons ser…
Using Public Housing to Achieve Self-Sufficiency: Can We Predict Success
In the United States since the mid-1980s, self-sufficiency programs have sought to transform public housing developments from permanent housing into way stations for low-income people. This article presents exploratory research on the predictors of success in these programs. Statistical analysis of longitudinal survey data from participants in an early public housing self-sufficiency program points to lack of previous welfare experience and the p…
Awareness of community-oriented policing and neighborhood perceptions in five small to midsize cities
Do First-Time Home Buyers Improve Their Neighborhood Quality
This study examines the changes in neighborhood quality in communities where low-income buyers have recently purchased homes. Three questions are addressed: Do lower-income buyers buy in higher quality neighborhoods than the ones in which they rented? Are lower-income buyers locating in higher quality neighborhoods than a comparison group of continuing renters? Are the neighborhoods of new buyers improving or deteriorating relative to those of co…
Chasing the American Dream: New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership
Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an important public policy goal for more than a century. In recent years there has been a clear shift of emphasis among policymakers from a focus on providing affordable rental units to providing affordable homeownership opportunities. Due in part to programs introduced by the Clinton and Bush administrations, the nation's homeownership rate is currently …
Economics (23 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (21 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Demographic economics (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Housing Market and Economics (13 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Public economics (9 works)