Public Housing Construction and the Cities: 1937–1967

Table 10

Regression analysis of change in segregation index* (44 cities).

Independent variable	Change in segregation index: 1940 to 1960	Change in segregation index: 1950 to 1960
Constant	−2.277	−3.625
	(1.16)	(3.26)
Public housing	−0.048	−0.013
Units per 1,000	(0.31)	(0.02)
Percentage change in	0.050	0.041
population of city	(2.32)	(1.77)
Change in percentage	−0.203	−0.132
Nonwhite population	(1.66)	(1.17)
Percentage Nonwhite	0.197	0.172
Population in 1950	(2.21)	(3.02)
R-squared	0.460	0.409
Adjusted R-sq.	0.404	0.348

*Unsigned T values are in parentheses.