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Public Housing, Income and Education: Focus on City of Los Angeles

Prepared by Mayra Navarro. Public Housing, Income and Education: Focus on City of Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles built several large housing projects after WWII to provide housing for low-income factory workers. Through time these have become sites of increasing levels of poverty.

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Public Housing, Income and Education: Focus on City of Los Angeles

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  1. Prepared by Mayra Navarro Public Housing, Income and Education: Focus on City of Los Angeles The city of Los Angeles built several large housing projects after WWII to provide housing for low-income factory workers. Through time these have become sites of increasing levels of poverty. Education is the only way out of this cycle of poverty.

  2. Housing Sites: Location The majority of HACLA sites service the South Los Angeles and East Los Angeles areas. With a few scattered sites in West LA and The SF Valley. Skill set: *Inset Map of Los Angeles City within LA county and bordering counties. *Geocoding: Assigned geographic location to attribute data of HACLA public housing sites.

  3. Data Source: Housing Authority City of Los Angeles Housing Units Available Nickerson Gardens - 1066 Units Built in 1955, is the largest public housing project West of the Mississippi River. Pueblo del Rio – 660 units Jordan Downs – 677 units Mar Vista Gardens – 601 units . Skill Set: *Graduated Symbols representing largest housing sites by housing units at each site.

  4. Data Source: US Census 2010; ACS. Correlation between Income and Education Lower Median Income correlates directly to areas with highest % of adults 25 and over with no High School degrees. Low Median Income and high % of 25+ adults w/no High School degrees peak in areas approximate to HACLA sites. Skill Set: *Boundary sub-sets selection- LA City Limits shapefile created by selecting LA_City from larger California cities file and converting to new shapefile. Skill Set: *Create an index- calculated the % of individuals 25+ w/no HS Diploma using data acquired: total # of 25+ individuals and total # of individuals with no HS diplomas.

  5. Poverty and Education Near HACLA Sites : South LA • Using our previous map that describes the % of adults 25+ with no High School education, we now see an overlay of the percentage of those individuals that are living below poverty. Skill Set: *Create an index- calculated the % of individuals 25+ w/no HS Diploma that are also living below poverty.

  6. Poverty and Education Near HACLA Sites : West LA • Areas adjacent to HACLA sites show high rates of these individuals with low educational attainment also living below poverty Skill set:*Attribute sub-sets selections- create major fwy file from major hwys derived by querying LA_streets for 405, 5 ,10, 105 and 405 fwys and creating new layer files

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