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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"housing discrimination"”.
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Off-Limits: The U.S. Army’s Campaign Against Housing Discrimination
… explores the U.S. Army’s responses to off-post housing discrimination faced by Black service members from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, arguing that military leaders gradually recognized housing discrimination as a significant impediment to military effectiveness and morale. Initially, the …
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Fair Housing Goes Nuclear: In Suburban Chicago the Cold War Meets a Civil Rights Protest in 1967
… area. However, the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing (NCDH) immediately protested the approval of the Weston site. They opposed the site choice because of a documented history of racial housing discrimination in and around Weston. In 1967, the NCDH hoped to utilize the Cold …
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Urban Planning and Housing: An Assessment of Fair Housing Laws Providing Protective Status to Veterans
… of Washington Abstract Urban Planning and Housing: An Assessment of Fair Housing Laws Providing Protective Status to Veterans Lisa Carolyn Davidson Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Research Professor Emeritus Fredrick Wagner Department of Urban Design and Planning This thesis examines …
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Three Essays on the Housing Market
<p>My dissertation comprises three essays on the housing market. The first two chapters analyze the housing market using the hedonic model. Chapter 1 estimates a semi-nonparametric hedonic regression that provides evidence for the change of bidding and sorting for job-access over time in Buffalo …
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Three Essays On The Housing Market
<p>My dissertation comprises three essays on the housing market. The first two chapters analyze the housing market using the hedonic model. Chapter 1 estimates a semi-nonparametric hedonic regression that provides evidence for the change of bidding and sorting for job-access over time in Buffalo …
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The receptivity to housing policy initiatives: adequate and affordable housing in the rural south
… of this study was to assess the impact of housing actors’ housing knowledge and involvement, perceptions of community Situations influencing housing, support for housing programs, and demographic characteristics on their receptiveness to housing policy initiatives. Perceptions of housing …
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Making a "black Beverly Hills": The struggle for housing equality in modern Los Angeles
… dissertation explores the black struggle for housing equality through mid-twentieth century Los Angeles, California. Alongside the rise of Los Angeles as a major metropolitan center, residential discrimination became embedded in the fabric of the city and African Americans found themselves …
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Essays on Neighborhood Transition and Housing Markets
… on neighborhood transition and its impact on housing markets using a novel micro-level dataset on housing transactions. It focuses on three issues: the neighborhood effect, housing discrimination, and stable integration. The first essay examines the relationship between increased minority …
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Rental Housing Search and Occupancy Experiences of Veterans with Disabilities
The search for rental housing can be a very stressful and complex process for veterans with service-connected disabilities. This process requires the evaluation of different factors, such as one's credit score, housing costs in relation to income and employment status, space requirements, type of …
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Show me what community looks like! : designing a popular education curriculum for a Los Angeles-based CLT
… critical pedagogy, alternative models of housing tenure, and participatory knowledge creation, both in the content and the process of designing the curriculum. I begin the thesis with overview of theoretical frameworks for popular education, which provides a basis for mutual learning among …
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Toronto's Housing Crisis: An Intersectional Politics of Housing and Settlement Services for Refugees
… I unpack the intersectional politics of the housing crisis in Toronto through the perspectives of frontline staff working in non-profit organisations. Two critical questions frame this study. Firstly, how have service providers addressed the housing and settlement needs of refugees in the …
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The Racialization of Relationships Between Higher Education Institutions and Cities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Changing North Denver
… immigrant families have in the past faced housing discrimination; air, water, and soil pollution; environmental racism; highway construction and expansion; school dilapidation; and social, political, and economic neglect for over five decades (Doeppers, 1967; Cram, 2013; EPA, 2019). As the …
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Three Essays in Urban Policy
… on different outcomes – access to rental housing, property values, and school enrollments – the desire to understand how policy influences the composition of an urban ecosystem provides the link. A particular emphasis is placed on housing, because housing is simultaneously and a basic …
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Three essays on discrimination and flood risk in housing markets
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms