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Neighborhoods in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Housing Assistance Supply Experiment
To facilitate analysis of the effects of an Experimental Housing Allowance Program, the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE) divided Site II, St. Joseph County, Ind., into 86 neighborhoods and 8 general purpose analytic districts. This report describes the neighborhoods and districts and assesses the appropriateness of the district boundaries. Neighborhoods are residentially homogeneous areas that vary in population from 2,000 to 4,000 residents and in size from 200 to 33,000 acres. Analytic districts are formed by aggregating neighborhoods into larger geographic units. Using an analysis of variance model on 5 demographic and 12 housing characteristic variables, researchers found that the St. Joseph districts explain a small but statistically significant amount of variation in each of the demographic variables (total household income, age of household head, gross rent, race, tenure) and a larger amount of variation in the housing characteristic variables (property value per unit, land price, lot size, improvements value per square foot, interior floor area per unit, construction year, neighborhood quality). Further, the districts appear about equally homogeneous, with South Bend, an area with a more varied ethnic population and household tenure, being the exception. Analytic districts, therefore, are useful for organizing HASE analyses of spatially distributed phenomena. Tables and an appendix are included. (Author abstract modified).
Neighborhoods in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Housing Assistance Supply Experiment
To facilitate analysis of the effects of an Experimental Housing Allowance Program, the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE) divided Site II, St. Joseph County, Ind., into 86 neighborhoods and 8 general purpose analytic districts. This report describes the neighborhoods and districts and assesses the appropriateness of the district boundaries. Neighborhoods are residentially homogeneous areas that vary in population from 2,000 to 4,000 residents and in size from 200 to 33,000 acres. Analytic districts are formed by aggregating neighborhoods into larger geographic units. Using an analysis of variance model on 5 demographic and 12 housing characteristic variables, researchers found that the St. Joseph districts explain a small but statistically significant amount of variation in each of the demographic variables (total household income, age of household head, gross rent, race, tenure) and a larger amount of variation in the housing characteristic variables (property value per unit, land price, lot size, improvements value per square foot, interior floor area per unit, construction year, neighborhood quality). Further, the districts appear about equally homogeneous, with South Bend, an area with a more varied ethnic population and household tenure, being the exception. Analytic districts, therefore, are useful for organizing HASE analyses of spatially distributed phenomena. Tables and an appendix are included. (Author abstract modified).
Neighborhoods in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Housing Assistance Supply Experiment
J. E. Bala (author)
1979
56 pages
Report
No indication
English