TY - JOUR
T1 - Distress in the Desert
T2 - Neighborhood Disorder, Resident Satisfaction, and Quality of Life During the Las Vegas Foreclosure Crisis
AU - Batson, Christie D.
AU - Monnat, Shannon M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was funded with grants from the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition, the City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Springs Preserve, and the UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Presidential Research Award. Dr. Monnat would like to acknowledge support from the Population Research Institute at Penn State, which receives core funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant R24-HD041025).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014
PY - 2015/3/25
Y1 - 2015/3/25
N2 - Using surveys collected from a sample of households nested within “naturally occurring” neighborhoods in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the 2007–2009 economic recession, this study examines the associations between real and perceived measures of neighborhood distress (foreclosure rate, physical decay, crime) and residents’ reports of neighborhood quality of life and neighborhood satisfaction. Consistent with social disorganization theory, both real and perceived measures of neighborhood disorder were negatively associated with quality of life and neighborhood satisfaction. Residents’ perceptions of neighborliness partially acted as a buffer against the effects of neighborhood distress, including housing foreclosures, on quality of life, and neighborhood satisfaction.
AB - Using surveys collected from a sample of households nested within “naturally occurring” neighborhoods in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the 2007–2009 economic recession, this study examines the associations between real and perceived measures of neighborhood distress (foreclosure rate, physical decay, crime) and residents’ reports of neighborhood quality of life and neighborhood satisfaction. Consistent with social disorganization theory, both real and perceived measures of neighborhood disorder were negatively associated with quality of life and neighborhood satisfaction. Residents’ perceptions of neighborliness partially acted as a buffer against the effects of neighborhood distress, including housing foreclosures, on quality of life, and neighborhood satisfaction.
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U2 - 10.1177/1078087414527080
DO - 10.1177/1078087414527080
M3 - Article
C2 - 25750507
AN - SCOPUS:84923308299
SN - 1078-0874
VL - 51
SP - 205
EP - 238
JO - Urban Affairs Review
JF - Urban Affairs Review
IS - 2
ER -
