Papers by Robert Silverman
This article examines patterns of mortgage lending in metropolitan Buffalo, New York. The analysi... more This article examines patterns of mortgage lending in metropolitan Buffalo, New York. The analysis is based on 1999-2002 HMDA data and 2000 Census data for metropolitan Buffa- lo. Mortgage lending patterns in census tracts are compared using descriptive statistics, GIS mapping, and multiple regression. The results from this analysis indicate that disparities in mortgage lending between census tracts are attributable to differences in: educational at- tainment, neighborhood socioeconomic distress, residential stability, and the age of neigh- borhood housing stock. It is noteworthy that after controlling for other variables, race and core city location did not significantly affect mortgage lending patterns. The findings from this analysis indicate that disinvestment is no longer confined to minority communities in core cities. Instead, it is becoming a more general phenomenon in metropolitan areas. Policy recommendations are forwarded in light of the findings from this research.
Douglas S. Massey, Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson, and David N. Kinsey. Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013)
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2014
The Social Science Journal, 2005
This note examines the effects of community socioeconomic status on mortgage lending patterns in ... more This note examines the effects of community socioeconomic status on mortgage lending patterns in Metropolitan Detroit. Data from 2000 HMDA reports and the 2000 U.S. Census are analyzed using multiple regression. The results from this analysis have two important implications for research on mortgage lending. First, they indicate that the effects of variables linked to a community's socioeconomic status on mortgage lending patterns are highly intercorrelated. As a result, variations in mortgage lending appear to be the result of the combined effects of a number of socioeconomic variables acting together. Second, the results from this analysis indicate that the socioeconomic status of a community is positively correlated with mortgage lending activity. In other words, a decline in neighborhood socioeconomic status is significantly correlated with a decline in mortgage lending.
Public Organization Review, 2009
This article compares how local public administrators and executive directors of community-based ... more This article compares how local public administrators and executive directors of community-based housing organizations (CBHO) perceive nonprofit funding decisions. The article's findings suggest that both groups shared perceptions about the scope of affordable housing and factors influencing its funding. Yet, important differences existed. Public administrators were ambivalent about nonprofit capacity and affordable housing outcomes. They also underestimated the importance of networks, partnerships, and minority leadership. Professionals in the nonprofit sector underestimated fair housing concerns and overestimated the importance of promoting homeownership. These insights improve our understanding of the connection between funding patterns, public-nonprofit sector relations, local governance, and administrative structures.
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2003
Urban Education and Neighborhood Revitalization
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2013
CDCs and Charitable Organizations in the Urban South: Mobilizing Social Capital Based on Race and Religion for Neighborhood Revitalization
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2001
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography http://jce.sagepub.com/ CDCs and Charitable Organizations in ... more Journal of Contemporary Ethnography http://jce.sagepub.com/ CDCs and Charitable Organizations in the Urban South : Mobilizing Social Capital Based on Race and Religion for Neighborhood Revitalization ROBERT MARK SILVERMAN Journal of Contemporary Ethnography ...
Social capital and community: editor’s introduction
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2002
This special issue examines the intersection of social capital and com-munity. This topic is of i... more This special issue examines the intersection of social capital and com-munity. This topic is of interest to sociologists due to the expanded fo-cus on social capital in research examining community and urban processes. It is also of interest to practitioners due to the growing em-phasis ...
Nonprofit perceptions of local government performance in affordable housing
International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 2009
This research was supported in part by a small research grant from the Baldy Center for Law &... more This research was supported in part by a small research grant from the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy at the University at Buffalo. The author would like to thank Maddi Zachacz for assistance with database development, also the two anonymous reviewers for their ...
Book Review: Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class, by Mary Pattillo-McCoy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
Critical Sociology, 2001
Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States
Contemporary Sociology, 2002
PROBLEM OF TH£ CENTURY In 1899, the great African American scholar, WEB Du Bois, published The Ph... more PROBLEM OF TH£ CENTURY In 1899, the great African American scholar, WEB Du Bois, published The Philadelphia Negro, the first systematic case study of an African American commu-nity and one of the foundations of American sociology. Du Bois prophesied that the" color line" ...
Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2009
... Talja Blokland provides a concrete exam-ple of the constraints in which bridging social capit... more ... Talja Blokland provides a concrete exam-ple of the constraints in which bridging social capital functions in her analysis of a community gardening project in New Haven, CT. ... Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia, by Alya Guseva. ...
Introduction: Special Issue on Participation
Community Development, 2006
Community Development, 2012
Latinoamericanistas www.redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la i... more Latinoamericanistas www.redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto b o o k r e v i e w s [ 255 ]
Boomburbs: the rise of America's accidental cities
Community Development, 2011
Policies focusing on enforcing property code violations and the improvement of vacant properties ... more Policies focusing on enforcing property code violations and the improvement of vacant properties are argued to be more efficacious than demolition policies to fight urban blight. This study applies parcel level data to a multi-year hybrid modeling structure. A fine-grained analysis is conducted on the dynamic patterns of abandonment and demolition for a unique period of four years before and after the City of Buffalo’s stepped-up demolition efforts. Results showed that proximity to vacant and abandoned properties, sustained over the years, had the greatest impact on the possibility of a property being abandoned. The second greatest positive impact on property abandonment was small lot front size. Results also showed that neighborhood vacancy density had the greatest negative impact on surrounding housing sales prices over the years. There was no significant impact of demolition on housing sales prices. These findings suggested that the City should aim to have more incentive programs that are tailored to control the number of vacant properties, rather than focusing primarily on demolition-oriented programs.
This article focuses on the manner in which affordable housing fits into anchor-based strategies ... more This article focuses on the manner in which affordable housing fits into anchor-based strategies for urban revitalization. It involves quantitative analysis of the location of existing HUD-subsidized housing in relation to neighborhood characteristics. The goal of the article is twofold. First, we examine the degree to which neighborhood characteristics associated with neighborhoods of opportunity correlate with the location of HUD-subsidized housing in shrinking cities. Second, we make recommendations for more equitable approaches to anchor-based urban revitalization. Our analysis uses a unique database developed to measure neighborhood characteristics in shrinking US cities. Our findings suggest that the location of affordable housing is not correlated with proximity to institutional and neighborhood amenities, where anchor-based revitalization is targeted. As a result, we make recommendations to link future affordable housing siting to anchor-based strategies for inner-city revitalization.
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