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Lo Re, Mary L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2014
This paper investigates the experience of Staten Island's diverse urban communities with limited financial resources regarding access to affordable housing after the 2008 economic downturn. It details a successful partnership in researching the challenges faced in these communities and offers recommendations for the targeting of resources to…
Descriptors: Housing Needs, Urban Population, Community Study, Financial Problems
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1987
This report describes a preliminary methodology by which distressed communities may be identified using school districts as the basic unit for the presentation of data. Distress consists of a concentration of the following types of need: (1) economic; (2) social; and (3) educational. Distress was measured by an index that determined a district's…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Needs, Community Problems, Community Study