Public Housing Construction and the Cities: 1937–1967

Table 6

Regression analysis of public housing units per 1,000 population* (𝑛=46).

Independent variable	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Constant	14.496	12.922	9.515	25.875
	(4.59)	(3.93)	(2.87)	(2.41)
Percentage housing	−0.287	−0.261	−0.195	−0.167
Owner occupied	(5.43)	(4.75)	(3.38)	(2.84)
Percentage families	0.355	0.435	0.378	0.418
Income <$2,000	(4.07)	(4.30)	(3.97)	(4.32)
Percentage of housing	—	−0.126	−0.134	−0.143
Stock built after 1940		(1.83)	(2.04)	(2.22)
Percentage Nonwhite	—	—	0.119	0.116
Population, 1960			(2.44)	(2.42)
Segregation index,	—	—	—	−0.207
1950				(1.60)
R-squared	0.522	0.558	0.614	0.637
Adjusted R sq.	0.500	0.526	0.576	0.592

*Unsigned T values in parentheses.