The central purpose of this research is to investigate multi-worker households' commuting and residential location choice behavior, and the constraints arising from socioeconomic and racial/ethnic backgrounds as well as exogenous employment distributions, faced by multi-worker families, especially low-income minority households in their choices of housing and residential locations. (More)

In the last 30 years, the South Bronx has transformed from a national symbol of urban crisis and dystopia to a model for new forms of urban redevelopment. But the nature of this renewal, and who it benefits, is deeply contested. Capital is returning to the South Bronx, and some claim that community-driven "renewal without displacement" is producing a new, economically diverse South Bronx. But critics point to the area's continuing poverty and racialization, and some residents fear that renewal will lead to gentrification and displacement. (More)

In this dissertation, Gundersen, uses direct measures of well-being to broaden the understanding of poverty and expand our policy prescriptions. (More)