Public Housing Construction and the Cities: 1937–1967

Table 5

Variable definitions and descriptive statistics: 46 major US cities.

Variable	Mean	Std. Dev.	Minimum	Maximum	Data source
Public housing units per 1000 population	8.96	4.35	0.80	26.89	National Commission on Urban Problems
Percentage of housing stock built after 1940	15.85	9.80	3.1	36.3	1950 Census
Percentage housing owner occupied	45.92	10.60	19.1	64.0	1950 Census
Percentage housing standard quality*	76.76	10.26	56.0	91.0	1950 Census
Vacancy rate (%)	1.64	1.23	0.50	6.70	1950 Census
Percentage families, income <$2,000	21.57	6.43	13.1	39.4	1950 Census
Percentage Nonwhite population, 1950	14.11	9.92	1.6	39.9	1950 Census
Percentage Nonwhite population, 1960	19.59	11.87	2.7	54.8	1960 Census
Segregation index, 1950	88.29	4.35	76.9	97.8	K. Taeuber and A. Taeuber [8]
Population density per square mile	9,496	5,294	2,861	25,046	1950 Census

*Units with hot running water, private toilet and bath, and not dilapidated.