How Are HOPE VI Families Faring? Health

While the primary goal of the HOPE VI program is to improve the living environment of public housing residents, it also aims to help residents move toward self-sufficiency by helping them find new or better jobs (see page 6). The program's Community Support Services (CSS) component can help identify what residents need, such as job training or placement, to make them more likely to find employment. Relocation itself might help residents find employment if they move to less poor neighborhoods with more job opportunities and better job information networks. Residents who move back to new mixed-income developments on the HOPE VI sites could experience similar improved job networks. However, whether these expectations of increased employment and self-sufficiency are realistic for HOPE VI residents is unclear. For both employed and nonemployed residents, the gap between household income and the income needed for housing and other costs of living is wide. The HOPE VI Panel Study is tracking the well-being of residents from five HOPE VI sites (see page 7). These respondents, mostly African American women, were extremely poor at baseline.[1] The vast majority reported household incomes below the poverty level, and over a third (35 percent) reported annual incomes of less than $5,000. Less than half (45 percent) of respondents were employed, and those who were working earned low wages (Popkin et al. 2002). This brief discusses income and employment findings for working-age adults under 62 years old two years after relocation started at the five HOPE VI Panel Study sites.[2] It examines various barriers to employment for respondents, and considers both expectations for future employment and the services and support systems that might best mitigate those barriers. Future research will examine how residents' employment experiences are affected as relocation is completed and some residents return to the revitalized developments. Brief #4 from the series "Metropolitan Housing and Communities: A Roof Over Their Heads".Notes from this section1. Because many health problems vary significantly by gender and race, and because over 90 percent of the adults in the HOPE VI Panel Study are women and 89 percent are African American, a sample of black women nationally is used as the comparison group. The national data cited in this brief are published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, calculated from the National Health Interview Survey in 2001.National Health Interview Survey data are broken down by sex and race, but not further by poverty status. Nationally, approximately one-third of all black women live in households with incomes below the poverty level. Therefore, the comparison data are biased slightly upward in terms of better health because of the relatively better economic well-being of the national population of black women compared to the HOPE VI sample. Even limiting the comparisons to similar gender, race, and age groups, adults in the HOPE VI study experience health problems more often than other demographically similar groups

Race and Residence: Prospects for Stable Neighborhood Integration

Analyzes changes in the racial composition of large metropolitan neighborhoods from 1990 to 2000, using data from the Neighborhood Change Database

Looking beyond interaction:Exploring meaning making through the windows of an art gallery

How is meaning produced in and around the art gallery? Sociological answers to this question are limited by a narrow focus on inter-gallery group interaction and cognitive interpretation. I argue that such approaches would be strengthened by accounting for the diverting effects of gallery context and atmosphere, both in and beyond the gallery. Art gallery windows offer a lens through which to explore how issues of context and atmosphere are negotiated in and around an art gallery in everyday life. I trial this approach using data from a fourteen-month case study of Bluecoat, a city center art gallery in Liverpool, UK, which has a series of windows that mediate between the gallery and the neighboring shopping street. The windows partition zones of meaning; frame vision; contribute to the symbolic meanings of a gallery’s exterior architecture; and modulate its interior atmosphere. The analysis models a meaning-centered sociology of the art gallery that moves beyond interpretation and towards a broader understanding of the currents of meaning in and around the art gallery

“I Just Had to Feel Grateful for What I’ve Been Given”: A Critical Examination of the Marketing Portrayals and Sponsorship of Professional Women Footballers

Using a feminist theoretical perspective, the purpose of this narrative study is to understand the marketing portrayal and sponsorship of professional women athletes. Specifically, it examines the perspectives of professional women footballers and the ways in which the gender ideal is reproduced, negotiated, and resisted, as well as their (re)imagined equitable sporting future. Applying a critical feminist narrative inquiry approach, I conducted three interviews with each of the four women athletes who participated in this study. Four main themes developed that best reflect my interpretation of the participants’ stories: 1) lack of commercial sponsorship limits career growth; 2) performative partnerships perpetuate inequities; 3) objectifying women athletes through labour exploitation; 4) limited agency restricts resistance and transformation potential. The findings challenge the concept of sponsorship ‘partnerships’ and expose an exploitative off-pitch reality for women athletes. Further, complexities of transformation were displayed as the women’s self-portrayal through social media acted as both a form of resistance and the (re)production of the women’s objectification. This study highlights the need for systemic change in professional football for all women to be perceived as legitimate and worthy of investment

Public Access Shoreline Hawaii v. Hawai\u27i County Planning Commission: Expanding Hawaii\u27s Doctrine Of Custom

Rapid development of coastline areas in Hawaii has sparked the attention of several native Hawaiian public interest groups. The growth of large resort hotels and condominiums along the beaches is eliminating areas once open for the exercise of traditional gathering practices. Tensions have risen between those interested in promoting the development of the land and those interested in preserving the traditional Hawaiian culture. In recent years, disputes have resulted in court challenges to state regulations permitting development on coastal properties. In Public Access Shoreline Hawaii v. Hawai \u27i County Planning Commission, the Supreme Court of Hawaii unanimously upheld a lower court\u27s decision that allowed an organization representing native Hawaiian interests to challenge the issuance of a Special Management Area (SMA) use permit. The court ruled that Public Access Shoreline Hawaii (PASH) had standing to participate in contested case hearings before the planning commission in order to challenge a proposed resort development\u27 The court further stated that under the Hawaii Constitution, a state agency has an obligation to preserve and protect traditional and customary Hawaiian rights and an affirmative duty to consider potentially adverse effects on those rights when issuing SMA permits\u27 Essentially, the court recognized that, with respect to developing lands, the developer\u27s private property interest is subject to superior rights established by customary and traditional native Hawaiian gathering practices. The extent to which Hawaii has used and expanded the doctrine of custom to support traditional native Hawaiian practices and the public\u27s access to coastal lands and waters is the subject of this Note. Part H provides a look at the legal background encompassing the doctrine of custom and Hawaii\u27s recognition of customary practices. The court\u27s decision in the PASH case is analyzed in Part III. Part IV discusses the consequences of the court\u27s decision and how the decision supports public interest goals