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

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.

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

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.

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.

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