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Housing Displacement in Brooklyn - Preliminary Findings

Housing Displacement in Brooklyn - Preliminary Findings. Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida Department of Sociology Brooklyn College/CUNY June 2006. Big Questions: Are people in Brooklyn experiencing housing displacement? If so, where does it happen? If so, who does it happen to?

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Housing Displacement in Brooklyn - Preliminary Findings

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  1. Housing Displacement in Brooklyn - Preliminary Findings Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida Department of Sociology Brooklyn College/CUNY June 2006

  2. Big Questions: • Are people in Brooklyn experiencing housing displacement? • If so, where does it happen? • If so, who does it happen to? • If so, where do the people go? • Big Problems: • It is very hard to measure housing displacement in a large scale, systematic way (no data, local phenomenon). • There is relatively little research on the topic.

  3. Little Solutions: • Use 2000 census data to explore patterns related to housing displacement in Brooklyn. • Compare with 1990 census data to observe changes across time. • Identify tracts where displacement happened or might happen in the future and conduct qualitative studies.

  4. Exploring Brooklyn – Stage 1 Demographic Characteristics % white % foreign born % large family HH (7+) median per capita income in 1999 % dense rentals (rooms with 2.01+ Occupants) Residence characteristics % owner occupied units % owner occupied new houses (1900-2000) % recent renters (1995-2000) % living in same house since 1995 % young adult recent movers (35-44 yo) % small units (2- bedrooms) Housing costs % HH paying low rent ($300-$599) % HH spending more than half of income on rent % owner occupied high cost houses ($1,000,000 or more)

  5. Segregated Diversity • Preliminary data analysis of the 2000 census suggests that although, in general, Brooklyn in a diverse borough, it is segregated at the tract level. • The correlation between the different characteristics of the tracts suggests that the segregation is multi-faceted. • Demographic characteristics, Residence characteristics and Housing costs seem to vary simultaneously. • Further analysis points to the existence of 4 major types of tracts in Brooklyn. • For lack of better names, they will be called – type 1,2,3 and 4. Your help with names will be appreciated…

  6. Differences in median per capita income Source: 2000 US Census (SF-3)

  7. Population Distribution Across Types Source: 2000 US Census (SF-3)

  8. Differences in other indicators (types 1 and 2) Source: 2000 US Census (SF-3)

  9. Differences in other indicators (types 1,3 and 4) Source: 2000 US Census (SF-3)

  10. Orange next to Blue or Yellow – Risk of Displacement! Source: 2000 US Census (SF-3)

  11. Places to look at…

  12. So where do we go from here? • Explore further the relationship between social segregation and the risk of housing displacement • Compare 2000 data with previous years • Compare Brooklyn with other boroughs and cities • Conduct qualitative studies of specific locations • Think about policy implications and action plans...

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