public housing, income and education: focus on city of los angeles the city of los angeles built...
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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.
Prepared by Mayra Navarro
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Housing Sites: Location
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.
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.
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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
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Skill Set: *Graduated Symbols representing largest housing sites by housing units at each site.
Data Source: Housing Authority City of Los Angeles
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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.
Correlation between Income and Education
Data Source: US Census 2010; ACS.
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.
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Poverty and Education Near HACLA Sites : South LA
Skill Set: *Create an index- calculated the % of individuals 25+ w/no HS Diploma that are also living below poverty.
• 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.
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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