An Improved Living Environment, But...

In 2000, the CHA received a HOPE VI grant to revitalize the Madden/Wells community by demolishing the nearly 3,000-unit dilapidated development and replacing it with a new mixed-income community named Oakwood Shores. Another development, Dearborn Homes, was slated for revitalization a few years later and was often used to house residents from other CHA developments targeted for demolition who were reluctant to leave CHA housing or had not qualified for mixed-income housing or vouchers.The plan for Dearborn Homes was to substantially rehabilitate its buildings.For over 10 years, the Urban Institute has been researching the outcomes of residents from these developments. This brief examines whether and to what extent the original residents of these distressed developments ended up in an improved living environment 3 to 10 years after relocating from Madden/Wells (the Panel Study sample) or 1 to 3 years after relocating from either Madden/Wells or the Dearborn Homes (the Demonstration sample).In general, these CHA families live in better housing in substantially safer, but still very poor, neighborhoods. Yet these gains are fragile; relocatees experience significant material hardship, and too many of those who have moved with vouchers live in neighborhoods where drug traf?cking and violent crime remain significant problems

CHA Residents and the Plan for Transformation

This series of policy briefs presents findings from more than a decade of research on the people who lived in Chicago Housing Authority properties when the agencylaunched its Plan for Transformation in October 1999. The ongoing, multiyear effort sought to improve resident well-being by renovating or demolishing decaying public housing properties and replacing them with new, mixed-income development

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Concentration and Distribution of Selected Trace Elements in the Maumee River Basin, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan

This study was supported by the Office of Water Resources Research. U.S. Department of the Interior under Project A-026-OHIO(print) 149 p. : maps (some folded) ; 28 cm.During the period August, 1971 to April, 1973, water and stream-bottom sediment samples were collected from 225 sites distributed throughout the Maumee River basin in northwestern Ohio, southeastern Michigan and northeastern Indiana. Split sediment samples were treated with a weak and a strong extractant before being examined by an atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Water samples were analyzed without specific preparation. The water and sediment samples were analyzed in order to determine the concentration of Ag, Al, As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Sn, Sr, and Zn. The concentration of these elements in both water and sediment included a wide range, but in most cases, the concentrations in water are very small while in sediment it may be very large. Seven municipalities within the basin are characterized by large concentrations of one or more elements in water or sediment. These localities include Fort Wayne and Butler, Indiana; Hudson, Michigan; and Maumee, Findlay, Defiance, and Decatur, Ohio. The high concentrations are probably the result of Industrial and municipal waste disposal. Not all anomolous concentrations are restricted to industrial centers. A large number of samples from small streams in rural areas contained high concentrations of arsenic, mercury, lead, zinc and nickel. These may be related to the agricultural use of pesticides. A natural source, however, may be related to the discharge of mineralized ground water, which reflects the chemical composition of the strata through which the water has migrated. Some high concentrations may be more apparent than real, particularly for those elements characterized by a low wave length. This is due to instrument error, and analytical techniques. In particular, these elements include arsenic, mercury and tin.Introduction -- Purpose and Scope -- Previous Investigations -- General Features of the Maumee River Basin -- Geology and Hydrology of the Area -- Sample Collection, Preparation and Analytical Techniques -- Concentration and Distribution of Selected Trace Elements in the Maumee River Basin -- Trace Elements and Health Significance of Selected Trace Elements -- Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix I -- Appendix I

Spirituality and the Therapeutic Recreation Practitioner: Exploring the Implications for Practice and Research

There is a growing body of literature that relates to spirituality and leisure. Within this corpus, several scholars continue to address the relationship between spirituality and therapeutic recreation. Much of the available literature chronicles the health and wellness benefits that accrue to the client/participant but little attention has been devoted to understanding the relationship between the personal spirituality of the therapeutic recreation (TR) professional and its influence on service delivery. The purpose of this essay was three-fold: (1) to examine the influence of spirituality in the work lives of TR practitioners; and (2) to chronicle existing literature that relates to spirituality and TR practitioners; and (3) to provide a discussion on the need for additional research to better understand the relationship between spirituality and the manner in which therapeutic recreation services are provided. We concluded that further exploring the relationship between the spirituality of TR professionals and its impact on practice is a viable line of scholarship that should be pursued vigorously