Using Public Housing to Achieve Self-Sufficiency: Can We Predict Success?

Kleit, Rachel Garshick; Rohe, William M.

doi:10.1080/0267303042000308741

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“…Economic solvency content may be used with focused interventions, such as financial education classes (Sanders et al . ) or wider programmes such as government welfare assistance (Kleit & Rohe ). Welfare reform in the United States cited economic solvency as a desired outcome of the programme, but did not define economic solvency (Kneipp ).…”

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Economic solvency in the context of violence against women: a concept analysis

Gilroy

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McFarlane

2014

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What is known about this topic• Poverty, or lack of economic solvency, is both a risk factor and a potential outcome of intimate partner violence. What this paper adds• A conceptual definition of economic solvency.• A foundation on which an operational definition of economic solvency can be built so that future researchers can measure the concept.• The first concept analysis, to the authors' knowledge, on economic solvency. AbstractThe aim of this concept analysis is to define economic solvency in the context of violence against women. Poverty, or lack of resources, is often discussed as a risk factor for intimate partner violence. The concept of economic solvency, which may be a protective factor for women, is less often discussed and not well defined. Databases searched for the analysis included EBSCOhost, CINAHL, PubMed and Gender Watch. The Rodgers evolutionary method was used to perform the concept analysis. A total of 134 articles were retrieved, using the specified search terms 'economic solvency and women', 'economic self-reliance and women' and 'economic self-sufficiency and women'. Articles were included if they were peer reviewed, contained the keywords with sufficient context to determine the author's intended meaning, and focused on women only or contrasted men to women. Thirty-five articles were used in the concept analysis. The definition of economic solvency drawn from the concept analysis is: a long-term state that occurs when there is societal structure that supports gender equity and external resources are available and can be used by a woman who has necessary human capital, sustainable employment and independence. Just as poverty and violence are cyclical, so are economic solvency and empowerment of women. To decrease women's risk of intimate partner violence around the world and further improve the status of women, we recommend continued research on economic solvency, including the individual, family, community and societal resources required to obtain economic solvency and the human capital characteristics needed for sustainability.

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Economic solvency in the context of violence against women: a concept analysis

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McFarlane

2014

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“…Therefore, women’s economic solvency should be supported by important steps such as financial education classes [ 79 ]. Furthermore, women’s economic solvency can be a factor that prevents violence and protects women if it is supported by more comprehensive programs such as government support [ 80 ]. Poor women are exploited more than women with a high income.…”

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Economic violence against women: A case in Turkey

2021

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The aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting the exposure of women in the 15–59 age group in Turkey to economic violence by their husbands/partners. The micro data set of the National Research on Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey, which was conducted by the Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, was employed in this study. The factors affecting women’s exposure to economic violence were determined using the binary logistic regression analysis. In the study, women in the 15–24, 25–34 and 35–44 age group had a higher ratio of exposure to economic violence compared to the reference group. Women who graduated from elementary school, secondary school, and high school had a higher ratio of exposure to economic violence compared to those who have never gone to school. Women’s exposure to physical, sexual and verbal violence was also important factor affecting women’s exposure to economic violence. The results obtained in this study are important in that they can be a source of information for establishing policies and programs to prevent violence against women. This study can also be a significant guide in determining priority areas for the resolution of economic violence against women.

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“…I suspect that, when Curley notes the sloughing off of these "draining ties," these relocated residents are acting in similar fashion to the women in Charlotte, NC -they are acting to preserve the norms and relationships that will support them and their families in a positive and constructive manner, while ridding themselves of those relationships that will cause harm. The women may have learned this defensive behavior in public housing out of necessity -it is no coincidence that in designing self-sufficiency programs some public housing authorities have created separate communities where everyone who lives there is working towards self-sufficiency (Kleit, 2004;Kleit & Rohe, 2005;Rohe & Kleit, 1999). Similarly, some HOPE VI sites focus on work enhancement as a key norm in the redeveloped site.…”

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“…In these studies, the dynamics that Curley describes about trying to distance oneself from neighbors and from draining relationships occur repeatedly. For example, in the Charlotte Public Housing Authority's Gateway Self-Sufficiency Program, those residents who were trying to work, get out of public housing, and save for the future explicitly isolated themselves from negative influences (Kleit & Rohe, 2005). One resident, a teenage mother, distanced herself from her peer group of other teen mothers so she would not end up with another pregnancy and possibly using drugs like themshe had to reject their behavioral norms.…”

Section: Dynamics Among Public Housing Neighbors: Learned Behaviors?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The women may have learned this defensive behavior in public housing out of necessity -it is no coincidence that in designing self-sufficiency programs some public housing authorities have created separate communities where everyone who lives there is working towards self-sufficiency (Kleit, 2004;Kleit & Rohe, 2005;Rohe & Kleit, 1999). Similarly, some HOPE VI sites focus on work enhancement as a key norm in the redeveloped site.…”

Section: Dynamics Among Public Housing Neighbors: Learned Behaviors?mentioning

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Draining ties: Tie quality versus content in low-income women’s social networks when displaced by redevelopment

Kleit

2010

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Public housing redevelopment has the potential to disrupt resident social support social networks. In reaction to Curley's (2009) finding that some relocated residents from the Maverick HOPE VI site were able to slough off non-reciprocal social support ties -"draining ties" -this paper hypothesizes that relocation does not alter patterns of interaction. That is, if someone depended on neighbors for social support, they continued to do so; if someone was avoidant, they continued to do that. A promising direction for social interventions to support residents in their relocation may be to more deliberately help relocated residents maintain social support networks, so that those who were avoiding "draining ties" in public housing do not lose out on potentially beneficial social ties in their new settings. KEY WORDS: Public housing • HOPE VI • social networks • lowincome • poverty dispersal • relocation Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Using Public Housing to Achieve Self-Sufficiency: Can We Predict Success?

Cited by 10 publications

References 19 publications

Economic solvency in the context of violence against women: a concept analysis

Economic solvency in the context of violence against women: a concept analysis

Economic violence against women: A case in Turkey

Draining ties: Tie quality versus content in low-income women’s social networks when displaced by redevelopment

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