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Omaha Housing Marketing: An Appraisal Of The Occupancy Potential For Subsidized Rental Units, 1971-1973, Ralph H. Todd, David W. Hinton Sep 1972

Omaha Housing Marketing: An Appraisal Of The Occupancy Potential For Subsidized Rental Units, 1971-1973, Ralph H. Todd, David W. Hinton

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This study provides an analysis of market conditions for subsidized dwelling on its for a two year period from September 1971 to September 1973. It emerged because of the strong and prevailing belief that there exists today in the Omaha Housing Market Area (HMAl an urgent and unmet need for a large number of safe, decent dwelling units available at prices or rents that low and moderate income families can afford. The number of inadequate dwelling units (those lacking plumbing facilities or deteriorating or dilapidated), and the number of persons living below poverty level incomes are suggestive of the fact …


Kaleidoscope Newsletter, Vol. 01, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar) Aug 1972

Kaleidoscope Newsletter, Vol. 01, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The Urban Affairs Kaleidoscope is a publication of the School of PubIic Affairs and Community Service at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.


Kaleidoscope Newsletter, Vol. 01, No. 01, Carol Lunbeck Apr 1972

Kaleidoscope Newsletter, Vol. 01, No. 01, Carol Lunbeck

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The Urban Affairs Kaleidoscope is a publication of the School of Public Affairs and Community Service.


Cua Census Report Number 03: Indian Population In Douglas County, Carol Lunbeck Jan 1972

Cua Census Report Number 03: Indian Population In Douglas County, Carol Lunbeck

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In spite of the recent emphasis on minority group problems, there are still significant gaps in the store of knowledge about the American Indian in the urban setting. Omaha is not unique. Much empirical data can be found in the census figures, but it must be extracted and synthesized before it becomes meaningful. Even so, the picture of the urban Indian in Omaha is far from complete. If realistic solutions to the problems confronting urban Indians are to be found, a great deal more empirical research·should precede and accompany the development of programs. Programs which would attack the social inequities …


Report - Phase Ii, Ken White Jan 1972

Report - Phase Ii, Ken White

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Where Phase I of the Corridor Selection Study concerned the delineation of neighborhood boundaries and establishment of cohesiveness levels, Phase I I emphasizes the impact of the highway on the neighborhoods. The following discussion is based on the assumption that the construction of a highway wiII have an impact on the surrounding neighborhoods, and that it is possible to measure and predict the nature and direction of the impact.


Toward The Development Of An Information Service On Poverty Problems For Community Agencies And Groups In The Omaha Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, Robert Simpson Jan 1972

Toward The Development Of An Information Service On Poverty Problems For Community Agencies And Groups In The Omaha Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, Robert Simpson

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This study can be viewed as a problem in applied social science. Ho\v can the resources of the University, in this case the Center for Urban Affairs of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, be mobilized to provide a social intelligence function for agencies and citizens groups working on community problems in the Omaha SMSA.

More specifically the objective is to expand and utilize the poverty-related content of the Center for Urban Affairs data bank in such manner as to aid local agencies and groups who are working on poverty-related problems. The assistance is to take the form of reports …