Rachel Garshick Kleit
Biographic Data
| ID | 212230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Garshick Kleit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Garshick |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleit |
| SIGNATURE | KLEIT R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2112-2934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Housing mobility in the Housing Choice Voucher program: The role of portability
After the projects: Public housing redevelopment & the governance of the poorest Americans , by Lawrence J. Vale
HOPE VI is not one program, as many think, but instead takes different forms in cities across America. Lawrence Vale’s After the Projects makes an argument that a complexity of forces creates quite
Community, Social Context of: The US Case
The Changing Role of Public Housing Authorities in the Affordable Housing Delivery System
As the great recession began, public housing authorities (PHAs) were just beginning to experience the full effects of neoliberal policy implementation and devolution. Using 13 case studies of the largest PHAs in the Pacific Northwest, this paper outlines activities that PHAs undertook to balance public mission with private-market means. PHAs made trade-offs among five paths that emphasize agency survival, producing housing for the poorest househo…
The Effects of Industrial Clusters on the Poverty Rate
Industrial clusters are widely understood as a worthwhile target of local economic development resources. Nevertheless, most of the work on cluster development has asserted benefits that accrue to a regional economy as a whole, with little or no focus on specific links between clusters and poverty alleviation. This article seeks to understand the degree to which economic clusters are associated with lower poverty rates. Specifically, using spatia…
Spatial Variations in US Poverty: Beyond Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan
Because poverty in rural and urban areas of the US often has different causes, correlates and solutions, effective anti-poverty policies depend on a thorough understanding of the ruralness or urbanness of specific places. This paper compares several widely used classification schemes and the varying magnitudes of poverty that they reveal in the US. The commonly used ‘metropolitan/non-metropolitan’ distinction obscures important socioeconomic diff…
Shared Skills: Occupation Clusters for Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development in the US
Economic development scholars and practitioners increasingly recognise the importance of both industry and occupational composition as sources of regional strength and specialisation. At the same time, occupational cluster analysis has paid insufficient attention to a main potential constituency of economic development: people in or near poverty. This article addresses this gap by developing 25 occupation clusters using a wide range of attributes…
Integrated or isolated? The impact of public housing redevelopment on social network homophily
Minorities on the Margins? The Spatial Organization of Fringe Banking Services
Case studies in select large cities have found that fringe services, including payday lenders, check cashers, pawn brokers, and money transmittal companies are more geographically accessible to predominantly minority neighborhoods while traditional banks are more accessible to white neighborhoods. However, many analyses are bivariate rather than multivariate and do not disentangle the influence of neighborhood socioeconomic status from that of ra…
The Location Choices of Public Housing Residents Displaced by Redevelopment: Market Constraints, Personal Preferences, or Social Information
Since the early 1990s, federal housing policy in the U.S. has become increasingly concerned with the confluence of the neighborhood quality and location of assisted housing residents, and the HOPE VI program is one within this family of programs. Yet a lack of dispersal has characterized HOPE VI and other efforts to relocate public housing residents. Using one HOPE VI site in Seattle, Washington, as a case study, this article fits a conditional m…
Draining ties: Tie quality versus content in low-income women's social networks when displaced by redevelopment
Public housing redevelopment has the potential to disrupt resident social support social networks. In reaction to Curley's (2009) finding that some relocated residents from the Maverick HOPE VI site were able to slough off non-reciprocal social support ties - "draining ties" - this paper hypothesizes that relocation does not alter patterns of interaction. That is, if someone depended on neighbors for social support, they continued to do so; if so…
Homing Devices: The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice by Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston and Mark Schuller
Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston and Mark Schuller, Homing Devices: The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).The role of government in public policy is
Moving Three Times Is Like Having Your House on Fire Once”: The Experience of Place and Impending Displacement among Public Housing Residents
The HOPE VI programme in the US displaces tens of thousands of low-income households to disperse pockets of poverty and transform sites of `severely distressed' public housing into mixed-income housing. A complete evaluation of this programme's impacts on residents must examine the meanings and functions of these communities before they are dismantled. Therefore, this paper examines residents' lived experiences of place in one site before redevel…
Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics – By Charles M. Lamb
To move or not to move: Relationships to place and relocation choices in Hope VI
As the HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) program redevelops public housing, residents must relocate. Little is known about how they make the choice to stay or to go, if they are given one. Survey interviews with 200 residents of Seattle's High Point HOPE VI project provide the data to address four questions about such moves. First, what factors predict residents’ initial choice to stay on site during redevelopment or to move p…
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…
Hope VI New Communities: Neighborhood Relationships in Mixed-Income Housing
To what extent are people of different incomes and housing tenures engaged in social relationships in new mixed-income, New Urbanist HOPE VI communities? In Seattle's NewHolly Phase I, neighboring relationships are generally more frequent than in other mixed-income situations. Yet systematic differences among housing tenures by language, family composition, and patterns of local facility use and community involvement curtail social interactions. …
Job Search Networks and Strategies in Scattered-site Public Housing
How does poverty dispersal influence the job search tactics and networks of poor women? Using the results of interviews with 253 women living in dispersed and small clusters of public housing, this paper examines how job networks and search tactics may vary. The premise is that the mechanisms involved in connecting poor residents of more affluent areas with opportunity may consist of both social connections and new strategies for accessing opport…
The role of neighborhood social networks in scattered‐site public housing residents’ search for jobs
In theory, housing poor families in the suburbs among those who are not poor can provide better housing options and help families connect with economic and social opportunities. Social networks are vital links to larger social systems and the neighborhood networks of low‐income people may thus influence their access to opportunity. Does living in small clusters of public housing in a nonpoor area instead of in a dispersed housing pattern influenc…
Neighborhood Relations in Suburban Scattered-Site and Clustered Public Housing
How does the level of dispersion of suburban public housing influence low-income residents’ neighborhood relations? An in-person survey of 253 public housing residents in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, provides the data to address this question. Controlling for factors that predict neighborhood interactions as well as differences between scattered-site and clustered residents, the findings suggest that residents scattered among nonpoor hou…
Moving Three Times Is Like Having Your House on Fire Once”: The Experience of Place and Impending Displacement among Public Housing Residents
The HOPE VI programme in the US displaces tens of thousands of low-income households to disperse pockets of poverty and transform sites of `severely distressed' public housing into mixed-income housing. A complete evaluation of this programme's impacts on residents must examine the meanings and functions of these communities before they are dismantled. Therefore, this paper examines residents' lived experiences of place in one site before redevel…
Hope VI New Communities: Neighborhood Relationships in Mixed-Income Housing
To what extent are people of different incomes and housing tenures engaged in social relationships in new mixed-income, New Urbanist HOPE VI communities? In Seattle's NewHolly Phase I, neighboring relationships are generally more frequent than in other mixed-income situations. Yet systematic differences among housing tenures by language, family composition, and patterns of local facility use and community involvement curtail social interactions. …
The Location Choices of Public Housing Residents Displaced by Redevelopment: Market Constraints, Personal Preferences, or Social Information
Since the early 1990s, federal housing policy in the U.S. has become increasingly concerned with the confluence of the neighborhood quality and location of assisted housing residents, and the HOPE VI program is one within this family of programs. Yet a lack of dispersal has characterized HOPE VI and other efforts to relocate public housing residents. Using one HOPE VI site in Seattle, Washington, as a case study, this article fits a conditional m…
Neighborhood Relations in Suburban Scattered-Site and Clustered Public Housing
How does the level of dispersion of suburban public housing influence low-income residents’ neighborhood relations? An in-person survey of 253 public housing residents in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, provides the data to address this question. Controlling for factors that predict neighborhood interactions as well as differences between scattered-site and clustered residents, the findings suggest that residents scattered among nonpoor hou…
Job Search Networks and Strategies in Scattered-site Public Housing
How does poverty dispersal influence the job search tactics and networks of poor women? Using the results of interviews with 253 women living in dispersed and small clusters of public housing, this paper examines how job networks and search tactics may vary. The premise is that the mechanisms involved in connecting poor residents of more affluent areas with opportunity may consist of both social connections and new strategies for accessing opport…
Minorities on the Margins? The Spatial Organization of Fringe Banking Services
Case studies in select large cities have found that fringe services, including payday lenders, check cashers, pawn brokers, and money transmittal companies are more geographically accessible to predominantly minority neighborhoods while traditional banks are more accessible to white neighborhoods. However, many analyses are bivariate rather than multivariate and do not disentangle the influence of neighborhood socioeconomic status from that of ra…
Draining ties: Tie quality versus content in low-income women's social networks when displaced by redevelopment
Public housing redevelopment has the potential to disrupt resident social support social networks. In reaction to Curley's (2009) finding that some relocated residents from the Maverick HOPE VI site were able to slough off non-reciprocal social support ties - "draining ties" - this paper hypothesizes that relocation does not alter patterns of interaction. That is, if someone depended on neighbors for social support, they continued to do so; if so…
The Effects of Industrial Clusters on the Poverty Rate
Industrial clusters are widely understood as a worthwhile target of local economic development resources. Nevertheless, most of the work on cluster development has asserted benefits that accrue to a regional economy as a whole, with little or no focus on specific links between clusters and poverty alleviation. This article seeks to understand the degree to which economic clusters are associated with lower poverty rates. Specifically, using spatia…
Spatial Variations in US Poverty: Beyond Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan
Because poverty in rural and urban areas of the US often has different causes, correlates and solutions, effective anti-poverty policies depend on a thorough understanding of the ruralness or urbanness of specific places. This paper compares several widely used classification schemes and the varying magnitudes of poverty that they reveal in the US. The commonly used ‘metropolitan/non-metropolitan’ distinction obscures important socioeconomic diff…
The Changing Role of Public Housing Authorities in the Affordable Housing Delivery System
As the great recession began, public housing authorities (PHAs) were just beginning to experience the full effects of neoliberal policy implementation and devolution. Using 13 case studies of the largest PHAs in the Pacific Northwest, this paper outlines activities that PHAs undertook to balance public mission with private-market means. PHAs made trade-offs among five paths that emphasize agency survival, producing housing for the poorest househo…
Shared Skills: Occupation Clusters for Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development in the US
Economic development scholars and practitioners increasingly recognise the importance of both industry and occupational composition as sources of regional strength and specialisation. At the same time, occupational cluster analysis has paid insufficient attention to a main potential constituency of economic development: people in or near poverty. This article addresses this gap by developing 25 occupation clusters using a wide range of attributes…
Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics – By Charles M. Lamb
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 role of neighborhood social networks in scattered‐site public housing residents’ search for jobs
In theory, housing poor families in the suburbs among those who are not poor can provide better housing options and help families connect with economic and social opportunities. Social networks are vital links to larger social systems and the neighborhood networks of low‐income people may thus influence their access to opportunity. Does living in small clusters of public housing in a nonpoor area instead of in a dispersed housing pattern influenc…
Neighborhood Relations in Suburban Scattered-Site and Clustered Public Housing
How does the level of dispersion of suburban public housing influence low-income residents’ neighborhood relations? An in-person survey of 253 public housing residents in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, provides the data to address this question. Controlling for factors that predict neighborhood interactions as well as differences between scattered-site and clustered residents, the findings suggest that residents scattered among nonpoor hou…
Job Search Networks and Strategies in Scattered-site Public Housing
How does poverty dispersal influence the job search tactics and networks of poor women? Using the results of interviews with 253 women living in dispersed and small clusters of public housing, this paper examines how job networks and search tactics may vary. The premise is that the mechanisms involved in connecting poor residents of more affluent areas with opportunity may consist of both social connections and new strategies for accessing opport…
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…
Hope VI New Communities: Neighborhood Relationships in Mixed-Income Housing
To what extent are people of different incomes and housing tenures engaged in social relationships in new mixed-income, New Urbanist HOPE VI communities? In Seattle's NewHolly Phase I, neighboring relationships are generally more frequent than in other mixed-income situations. Yet systematic differences among housing tenures by language, family composition, and patterns of local facility use and community involvement curtail social interactions. …
To move or not to move: Relationships to place and relocation choices in Hope VI
As the HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) program redevelops public housing, residents must relocate. Little is known about how they make the choice to stay or to go, if they are given one. Survey interviews with 200 residents of Seattle's High Point HOPE VI project provide the data to address four questions about such moves. First, what factors predict residents’ initial choice to stay on site during redevelopment or to move p…
Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics – By Charles M. Lamb
Moving Three Times Is Like Having Your House on Fire Once”: The Experience of Place and Impending Displacement among Public Housing Residents
The HOPE VI programme in the US displaces tens of thousands of low-income households to disperse pockets of poverty and transform sites of `severely distressed' public housing into mixed-income housing. A complete evaluation of this programme's impacts on residents must examine the meanings and functions of these communities before they are dismantled. Therefore, this paper examines residents' lived experiences of place in one site before redevel…
Homing Devices: The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice by Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston and Mark Schuller
Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston and Mark Schuller, Homing Devices: The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).The role of government in public policy is
Draining ties: Tie quality versus content in low-income women's social networks when displaced by redevelopment
Public housing redevelopment has the potential to disrupt resident social support social networks. In reaction to Curley's (2009) finding that some relocated residents from the Maverick HOPE VI site were able to slough off non-reciprocal social support ties - "draining ties" - this paper hypothesizes that relocation does not alter patterns of interaction. That is, if someone depended on neighbors for social support, they continued to do so; if so…
Integrated or isolated? The impact of public housing redevelopment on social network homophily
Minorities on the Margins? The Spatial Organization of Fringe Banking Services
Case studies in select large cities have found that fringe services, including payday lenders, check cashers, pawn brokers, and money transmittal companies are more geographically accessible to predominantly minority neighborhoods while traditional banks are more accessible to white neighborhoods. However, many analyses are bivariate rather than multivariate and do not disentangle the influence of neighborhood socioeconomic status from that of ra…
The Location Choices of Public Housing Residents Displaced by Redevelopment: Market Constraints, Personal Preferences, or Social Information
Since the early 1990s, federal housing policy in the U.S. has become increasingly concerned with the confluence of the neighborhood quality and location of assisted housing residents, and the HOPE VI program is one within this family of programs. Yet a lack of dispersal has characterized HOPE VI and other efforts to relocate public housing residents. Using one HOPE VI site in Seattle, Washington, as a case study, this article fits a conditional m…
Spatial Variations in US Poverty: Beyond Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan
Because poverty in rural and urban areas of the US often has different causes, correlates and solutions, effective anti-poverty policies depend on a thorough understanding of the ruralness or urbanness of specific places. This paper compares several widely used classification schemes and the varying magnitudes of poverty that they reveal in the US. The commonly used ‘metropolitan/non-metropolitan’ distinction obscures important socioeconomic diff…
Shared Skills: Occupation Clusters for Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development in the US
Economic development scholars and practitioners increasingly recognise the importance of both industry and occupational composition as sources of regional strength and specialisation. At the same time, occupational cluster analysis has paid insufficient attention to a main potential constituency of economic development: people in or near poverty. This article addresses this gap by developing 25 occupation clusters using a wide range of attributes…
The Effects of Industrial Clusters on the Poverty Rate
Industrial clusters are widely understood as a worthwhile target of local economic development resources. Nevertheless, most of the work on cluster development has asserted benefits that accrue to a regional economy as a whole, with little or no focus on specific links between clusters and poverty alleviation. This article seeks to understand the degree to which economic clusters are associated with lower poverty rates. Specifically, using spatia…
Community, Social Context of: The US Case
The Changing Role of Public Housing Authorities in the Affordable Housing Delivery System
As the great recession began, public housing authorities (PHAs) were just beginning to experience the full effects of neoliberal policy implementation and devolution. Using 13 case studies of the largest PHAs in the Pacific Northwest, this paper outlines activities that PHAs undertook to balance public mission with private-market means. PHAs made trade-offs among five paths that emphasize agency survival, producing housing for the poorest househo…
After the projects: Public housing redevelopment & the governance of the poorest Americans , by Lawrence J. Vale
HOPE VI is not one program, as many think, but instead takes different forms in cities across America. Lawrence Vale’s After the Projects makes an argument that a complexity of forces creates quite
Housing mobility in the Housing Choice Voucher program: The role of portability
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Public housing (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works)