Susan J Popkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan J Popkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Popkin |
| SIGNATURE | POPKIN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Urban Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Housing Choice Voucher Holders and Neighborhood Crime: A Dynamic Panel Analysis from Chicago
It is often alleged that households moving into neighborhoods with the aid of housing choice vouchers (HCVs) raise crime rates there. We use 1999–2008 quarterly data from Chicago census tracts to test this allegation with a dynamic panel model designed to overcome the challenges of omitted variable and endogeneity biases. We find no support for the proposition that growth in HCV holders leads to growth in violent crime rates, regardless of neighb…
Poor Families Need Real Choices, Not Another Policy Debate: Response to David Imbroscio’s “Urban Policy as Meritocracy: A Critique”
The Challenge of Targeting Services: A Typology of Public-Housing Residents
This article focuses on one of the major challenges in serving vulnerable families: identifying which clients require intensive services and which would benefit from a less expensive approach. Using data collected as part of an intensive family-case-management demonstration in public housing in Chicago, the study conducts cluster analysis to develop a typology that can inform the targeting of effective, streamlined service delivery. The analysis …
Moving to Opportunity: The story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty
Girls in the ’Hood: How Safety Affects the Life Chances of Low-Income Girls
Adolescents growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods are at risk for a range of negative outcomes. Girls face specific threats because of their gender—omnipresent harassment, pressure for early sexual initiation, pervasive intimate partner violence, and high risk of sexual assault.This article uses mixed-methods data from the Three-City Study of Moving to Opportunity (MTO) to explore how moving to lower-poverty neighborhoods may have influenced a…
Has Hope Vi Transformed Residents' Lives? New Evidence From The Hope Vi Panel Study
Since the early 1990s, the HOPE VI program has been the United States' largest, most ambitious community revitalization program. HOPE VI sought to transform not only distressed public housing communities, but also to transform residents' lives and help them to become self-sufficient. This paper uses new evidence from the HOPE VI Panel Study on how HOPE VI families have fared. The long-term findings from this research paint a more positive picture…
The Hope VI Program: What about the residents?
During the 1990s, the federal government dramatically changed its policy on housing the poor. Under the HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) Program, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development intended to address the concentration of troubled low‐income households in public housing by moving away from its reliance on project‐based assistance and promoting instead the construction of mixed‐income housing and the use of h…
Beyond Crime Prevention: How the Transformation of Public Housing Has Changed the Policy Equation
Obstacles to desegregating public housing: Lessons learned from implementing eight consent decrees
Between 1992 and 1996 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) settled a number of legal cases involving housing authorities and agreed to take remedial action as part of court‐enforced consent decrees entered into with plaintiffs. These housing authorities faced significant obstacles that impaired their ability to comply swiftly and fully with all of the elements in the desegregation consent decrees. The obstacles fell into two…
The Gautreaux Legacy: What Might Mixed‐Income and Dispersal Strategies Mean for the Poorest Public Housing Tenants?
The current transformation of public and assisted housing reflects the legacy of the Gautreaux case, which created the first mobility and scattered‐site programs. Mixed‐income and dispersal strategies now dominate federal housing policy, although their focus has shifted. Drawing on evidence from two preliminary studies of public housing transformation in Chicago, we argue that these new strategies seem to offer benefits for distressed public hous…
Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants
Susan J. Popkin, James E. Rosenbaum, Patricia M. Meaden, Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 556-573
Social Integration of Low-Income Black Adults in Middle-Class White Suburbs
To examine whether racial and socioeconomic integration leads to social isolation, the authors studied participants in the Gautreaux Program which helps low-income black families move into better housing in white middle-class suburbs and black inner-city neighborhoods. A random sample of 342 Gautreaux participants were surveyed, and 95 were interviewed. Surprisingly, little difference exists in the overall social integration of people moving to t…
Welfare: Views from the Bottom
Using data from a random sample of 149 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients in Chicago, this paper explores what recipients think about their experiences with welfare programs and how these beliefs are affected by their sense of efficacy, length of time on public assistance, social status, and personal characteristics. Respondents who have been on AFDC for shorter periods have more optimistic views of their circumstances and …
Girls in the ’Hood: How Safety Affects the Life Chances of Low-Income Girls
Adolescents growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods are at risk for a range of negative outcomes. Girls face specific threats because of their gender—omnipresent harassment, pressure for early sexual initiation, pervasive intimate partner violence, and high risk of sexual assault.This article uses mixed-methods data from the Three-City Study of Moving to Opportunity (MTO) to explore how moving to lower-poverty neighborhoods may have influenced a…
Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants
Susan J. Popkin, James E. Rosenbaum, Patricia M. Meaden, Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 556-573
Has Hope Vi Transformed Residents' Lives? New Evidence From The Hope Vi Panel Study
Since the early 1990s, the HOPE VI program has been the United States' largest, most ambitious community revitalization program. HOPE VI sought to transform not only distressed public housing communities, but also to transform residents' lives and help them to become self-sufficient. This paper uses new evidence from the HOPE VI Panel Study on how HOPE VI families have fared. The long-term findings from this research paint a more positive picture…
Social Integration of Low-Income Black Adults in Middle-Class White Suburbs
To examine whether racial and socioeconomic integration leads to social isolation, the authors studied participants in the Gautreaux Program which helps low-income black families move into better housing in white middle-class suburbs and black inner-city neighborhoods. A random sample of 342 Gautreaux participants were surveyed, and 95 were interviewed. Surprisingly, little difference exists in the overall social integration of people moving to t…
Obstacles to desegregating public housing: Lessons learned from implementing eight consent decrees
Between 1992 and 1996 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) settled a number of legal cases involving housing authorities and agreed to take remedial action as part of court‐enforced consent decrees entered into with plaintiffs. These housing authorities faced significant obstacles that impaired their ability to comply swiftly and fully with all of the elements in the desegregation consent decrees. The obstacles fell into two…
The Challenge of Targeting Services: A Typology of Public-Housing Residents
This article focuses on one of the major challenges in serving vulnerable families: identifying which clients require intensive services and which would benefit from a less expensive approach. Using data collected as part of an intensive family-case-management demonstration in public housing in Chicago, the study conducts cluster analysis to develop a typology that can inform the targeting of effective, streamlined service delivery. The analysis …
Welfare: Views from the Bottom
Using data from a random sample of 149 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients in Chicago, this paper explores what recipients think about their experiences with welfare programs and how these beliefs are affected by their sense of efficacy, length of time on public assistance, social status, and personal characteristics. Respondents who have been on AFDC for shorter periods have more optimistic views of their circumstances and …
Housing Choice Voucher Holders and Neighborhood Crime: A Dynamic Panel Analysis from Chicago
It is often alleged that households moving into neighborhoods with the aid of housing choice vouchers (HCVs) raise crime rates there. We use 1999–2008 quarterly data from Chicago census tracts to test this allegation with a dynamic panel model designed to overcome the challenges of omitted variable and endogeneity biases. We find no support for the proposition that growth in HCV holders leads to growth in violent crime rates, regardless of neighb…
Welfare: Views from the Bottom
Using data from a random sample of 149 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients in Chicago, this paper explores what recipients think about their experiences with welfare programs and how these beliefs are affected by their sense of efficacy, length of time on public assistance, social status, and personal characteristics. Respondents who have been on AFDC for shorter periods have more optimistic views of their circumstances and …
Social Integration of Low-Income Black Adults in Middle-Class White Suburbs
To examine whether racial and socioeconomic integration leads to social isolation, the authors studied participants in the Gautreaux Program which helps low-income black families move into better housing in white middle-class suburbs and black inner-city neighborhoods. A random sample of 342 Gautreaux participants were surveyed, and 95 were interviewed. Surprisingly, little difference exists in the overall social integration of people moving to t…
Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants
Susan J. Popkin, James E. Rosenbaum, Patricia M. Meaden, Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 556-573
The Gautreaux Legacy: What Might Mixed‐Income and Dispersal Strategies Mean for the Poorest Public Housing Tenants?
The current transformation of public and assisted housing reflects the legacy of the Gautreaux case, which created the first mobility and scattered‐site programs. Mixed‐income and dispersal strategies now dominate federal housing policy, although their focus has shifted. Drawing on evidence from two preliminary studies of public housing transformation in Chicago, we argue that these new strategies seem to offer benefits for distressed public hous…
Beyond Crime Prevention: How the Transformation of Public Housing Has Changed the Policy Equation
Obstacles to desegregating public housing: Lessons learned from implementing eight consent decrees
Between 1992 and 1996 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) settled a number of legal cases involving housing authorities and agreed to take remedial action as part of court‐enforced consent decrees entered into with plaintiffs. These housing authorities faced significant obstacles that impaired their ability to comply swiftly and fully with all of the elements in the desegregation consent decrees. The obstacles fell into two…
The Hope VI Program: What about the residents?
During the 1990s, the federal government dramatically changed its policy on housing the poor. Under the HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) Program, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development intended to address the concentration of troubled low‐income households in public housing by moving away from its reliance on project‐based assistance and promoting instead the construction of mixed‐income housing and the use of h…
Has Hope Vi Transformed Residents' Lives? New Evidence From The Hope Vi Panel Study
Since the early 1990s, the HOPE VI program has been the United States' largest, most ambitious community revitalization program. HOPE VI sought to transform not only distressed public housing communities, but also to transform residents' lives and help them to become self-sufficient. This paper uses new evidence from the HOPE VI Panel Study on how HOPE VI families have fared. The long-term findings from this research paint a more positive picture…
Moving to Opportunity: The story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty
Girls in the ’Hood: How Safety Affects the Life Chances of Low-Income Girls
Adolescents growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods are at risk for a range of negative outcomes. Girls face specific threats because of their gender—omnipresent harassment, pressure for early sexual initiation, pervasive intimate partner violence, and high risk of sexual assault.This article uses mixed-methods data from the Three-City Study of Moving to Opportunity (MTO) to explore how moving to lower-poverty neighborhoods may have influenced a…
The Challenge of Targeting Services: A Typology of Public-Housing Residents
This article focuses on one of the major challenges in serving vulnerable families: identifying which clients require intensive services and which would benefit from a less expensive approach. Using data collected as part of an intensive family-case-management demonstration in public housing in Chicago, the study conducts cluster analysis to develop a typology that can inform the targeting of effective, streamlined service delivery. The analysis …
Poor Families Need Real Choices, Not Another Policy Debate: Response to David Imbroscio’s “Urban Policy as Meritocracy: A Critique”
Housing Choice Voucher Holders and Neighborhood Crime: A Dynamic Panel Analysis from Chicago
It is often alleged that households moving into neighborhoods with the aid of housing choice vouchers (HCVs) raise crime rates there. We use 1999–2008 quarterly data from Chicago census tracts to test this allegation with a dynamic panel model designed to overcome the challenges of omitted variable and endogeneity biases. We find no support for the proposition that growth in HCV holders leads to growth in violent crime rates, regardless of neighb…
Economics (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Housing Market and Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Law (4 works)