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Title: Michele Oberholtzer talks about her relationship with Detroit
Creator: Oberholtzer, Michele, 1985-
Date: 2018-09/2019-04
Collection: i.Detroit
Description: Michele Oberholtzer speaks about her relationship with Detroit for Marcus Lyon's i.Detroit project. Oberholtzer talks about how she came to Detroit and got involved in the housing crisis, and how being an activist has given her a sense of purpose in Detroit's community.

Title: Walter Mondale speaking to the National Press Club in Washington on employment, economic policy, foreign policy, housing, and the 1978 Democratic campaign
Creator: Mondale, Walter F., 1928-2021
Date: 1978-10-05
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Vice President Walter F. Mondale speaks to the National Press Club in Washington D.C. about employment, economic policy, foreign policy, housing and the 1978 Democratic campaign. Frank Aukofer, President of the National Press Club, directs questions from the audience to Mondale.

Title: U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing a special joint session of 80th Congress
Creator: Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Date: 1948-08-14
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Harry Truman urges precautionary measures against inflation and asks for housing and other legislation. He warns that a failure to act would lead to economic collapse and threaten world peace.

Title: Carla Hills discusses the new housing bill
Creator: Hills, Carla Anderson, 1934-
Date: 1975-06-29
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Hills explains why her department delayed acting on financing home-building until that bill came out of Congress.

Title: Interview of Mildred Blandford on her service as a secretary in the American Red Cross during WWII
Creator: Blandford, Mildred
Date: 1983-10
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Mildred Blandford talks about her service as a secretary in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Blandford, who served from August 1944 to November 1945, says that she joined the Red Cross for overseas adventure and spent most of her time stationed at the 194th General Hospital in Paris. She says that she was quartered in a Parisian hotel with maid service, but that service in the hospital was no picnic and meant leaving her secretarial duties often to help care for the onslaught of...
Show moreMildred Blandford talks about her service as a secretary in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Blandford, who served from August 1944 to November 1945, says that she joined the Red Cross for overseas adventure and spent most of her time stationed at the 194th General Hospital in Paris. She says that she was quartered in a Parisian hotel with maid service, but that service in the hospital was no picnic and meant leaving her secretarial duties often to help care for the onslaught of wounded soldiers. After VE Day, Blandford says that she volunteered for duty in the Pacific and was sent to Okinawa where she found herself living in a tent rather than luxury hotel. She talks about her daily tasks and again helping out with wounded G.I.s. and describes two typhoons that hit the island and how staff tried to protect the patients in the tent hospital from the storm. At war's end, Blandford says that she returned to Louisville to work, but later went back to Paris for school and to work for NATO. Blandford is interviewed by Dorothy M. Harrison.
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Title: Creating the moderate income housing investment under section 221(d)4 of the National Housing Act
Creator: Bradley, Thomas Erroll
Date: 1974
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Investigation of proposed water quality indicator organisms for marine mammal enclosures
Creator: Owen, Christopher (Graduate of Michigan State University)
Date: 2018
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: INVESTIGATION OF PROPOSED WATER QUALITY INDICATOR ORGANISMS FOR MARINE MAMMAL ENCLOSURESByChristopher OwenA USDA APHIS proposal would require institutions housing marine mammals to limit concentrations of total coliforms to 500 CFU/100 mL and enterococci, staphylococci, and/or pseudomonads to 35, 10, and/or 10 CFU/100 mL, respectively. Little is known about the amount of water treatment necessary to meet these levels, or significance of said levels, if any, in relation to the total microbial...
Show moreINVESTIGATION OF PROPOSED WATER QUALITY INDICATOR ORGANISMS FOR MARINE MAMMAL ENCLOSURESByChristopher OwenA USDA APHIS proposal would require institutions housing marine mammals to limit concentrations of total coliforms to 500 CFU/100 mL and enterococci, staphylococci, and/or pseudomonads to 35, 10, and/or 10 CFU/100 mL, respectively. Little is known about the amount of water treatment necessary to meet these levels, or significance of said levels, if any, in relation to the total microbial community of marine mammal housing systems and the health of the mammals housed. Using membrane filtration and growth on selective media, concentrations of these indicators were monitored in a system housing Pacific white-sided dolphins over a period of 5 days and compared between exhibit water and water from exhibit plumbing after sand filtration but before ozone treatment. Concentrations were also examined after ozone treatment. Isolates from each media were taxonomically identified using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and colony counts were analyzed as predictors of 16S rRNA gene community data.All indicator counts were significantly reduced either after sand filtration or after ozone treatment, but none were significantly reduced at both points. Genetic sequencing of isolates from selective and differential media revealed that 10% of presumptive pseudomonads, 19% of presumptive staphylococci, 100% of presumptive enterococci, and 91% of lactose-fermenting total coliforms were members of the expected taxa. Several correlations between indicator counts and individual OTUs from the community as well as overall dissimilarity between community samples were detected.
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Title: The development of certain qualitative measures of family living space
Creator: Babbitt, Candace Lynn
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The feasibility of constructing two- or three-family owner-occupied housing in single-family neighborhoods as an infill strategy
Creator: Vilicic, Leonard J.
Date: 1997
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The residential patterns of blacks in Natchez and Hattiesburg and other Mississippi cities
Creator: McKee, Jesse Oscar, 1941
Date: 1972
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Evaluating squatter residence in urban Zambia : the effects of social class and urbanization
Creator: Mason, Anne Louise
Date: 1980
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: An analysis of a low income housing market in urban Zambia
Creator: Ndulo, Manenga Chilala
Date: 1983
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Simulated long-run housing requirements by type and region
Creator: Marcin, Thomas Casimer
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Policy implications of rural-urban migration in Calabar, Nigeria : the relative effects on housing
Creator: Ebong, Maurice Okon
Date: 1978
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A sense of place : an analysis of the need for housing in Asmara, Eritrea
Creator: Holt, Tammy Lynne
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Housing instability among Head Start families : the role of parenting practices, parental mental health, and classroom quality on children's academic and social-emotional functioning
Creator: Boddapati, Samanta
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "National estimates indicate that young children account for a significant proportion of people who are unstably housed (Bassuk, DeCandia, Beach & Berman, 2014). Housing instability refers to a range of conditions that includes frequent residential mobility, living doubled-up, and homelessness (Cunningham, Harwood & Hall, 2010). Emerging research has demonstrated that instability during early childhood may affect long-term functioning, especially for children living in poverty (Fowler, Henry,...
Show more"National estimates indicate that young children account for a significant proportion of people who are unstably housed (Bassuk, DeCandia, Beach & Berman, 2014). Housing instability refers to a range of conditions that includes frequent residential mobility, living doubled-up, and homelessness (Cunningham, Harwood & Hall, 2010). Emerging research has demonstrated that instability during early childhood may affect long-term functioning, especially for children living in poverty (Fowler, Henry, Schoeny, Taylor & Chavira, 2014; Ziol-Guest & McKenna, 2014). Therefore, a primary goal of this secondary data analysis study is to compare the pre-kindergarten outcomes of children who faced housing instability on important academic and behavioral skills. Beyond the effects of early housing instability on children, aspects of the social context, such as parenting practices and quality of care at preschool, can have a beneficial influence on children's academic and social-emotional functioning (e.g., Herbers, Cutuli, Supkoff, Heistad, Chan, Hinz, Masten, 2011). However, parental mental health challenges, particularly depression, are higher among caregivers facing housing instability, which in turn can jeopardize parenting practices that have well noted effects on child functioning (Suglia, Durarte & Sandel, 2011). Despite these risks, positive environments beyond housing, such as high quality Head Start classrooms, can serve as protective factors for children facing housing instability (Herbers et al., 2011; Militois, Sesma, and Masten 1999; Pianta, Howes, Bryant, Clifford, Early & Barbarin, 2005). Therefore, another important aim of this study is to better understand the complex relations between parental depression symptomology, parenting practices, classroom quality at Head Start, and children's functioning, among families who faced housing instability at Head Start entry. Specifically, this study tested differences in a moderated-mediation model that aimed to understand whether classroom quality at Head Start served as a moderator by interacting with parenting in the noted relation between parental depression and child functioning through parenting practices. With the exception of mean level differences in parent engagement (.91 [z = - 2.98]), multiple group structural equation modeling revealed no significant differences between children and families who experienced housing instability during the Head Start years and those who were stably housed. Although evidence that classroom quality mitigated risk was not present, the findings did suggest a differential trend in the relation between classroom quality and children's social-emotional functioning between groups in the non-multiple group analyses. Overall, the results also suggested the important role of parenting approaches during the pre-kindergarten year for all Head Start children. Findings highlight potential unique differences between unstably housed and stably housed children and future directions in research on the role of housing instability during the pre-school years."--Pages ii-iii.
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Title: Governing uncertainty : foreclosure, finance, and the American dream in Michigan
Creator: Jefferson, Anna
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Michigan alone has accounted for more than one of every eight foreclosures nationwide since the housing crisis began in 2006. This dissertation, researched at the height of new foreclosure activity (August 2009--October 2010) in mid- and eastern Michigan, argues that widespread foreclosure undermines American cultural citizenship. Data for the dissertation include fourteen months of participant observation at housing counseling agencies, industry trainings, outreach events, and political...
Show moreMichigan alone has accounted for more than one of every eight foreclosures nationwide since the housing crisis began in 2006. This dissertation, researched at the height of new foreclosure activity (August 2009--October 2010) in mid- and eastern Michigan, argues that widespread foreclosure undermines American cultural citizenship. Data for the dissertation include fourteen months of participant observation at housing counseling agencies, industry trainings, outreach events, and political rallies; interviews with distressed homeowners (n=29) and housing professionals and activists (n=34); and secondary materials including legislation, government analyses, popular media, and industry training materials. My key claims are (1) that threatened foreclosure upends claims to upward mobility, the American dream, and national greatness premised on a broad middle class. (2) The foreclosure crisis accelerated the reconfiguration of state power such that finance is more integral to the state and everyday life. Simultaneously, citizens' access to the state is mediated both through banks and non-profits that try to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. Together, personal experiences facing foreclosure and their governance in everyday life change the substantive rights of American citizenship, namely homeownership, state legitimacy, and belief in the consonance of business and public interests. As the birthplace of the American auto industry and strongest labor union, Michigan's history validated beliefs in upward mobility, the blue-collar middle class, and economic and social inclusion for African Americans--all told, the prototype of the good life. These were instrumental to the postwar vision of shared affluence, the most visible sign of which was owning a home. From the perspective of distressed homeowners and housing professionals, Michigan's post-industrial struggles, including foreclosures and the state's infamously "shrinking cities," continued to rupture the social compact and, similar to deindustrialization, privilege finance over community wellbeing. The signature, albeit flawed, policy response to the foreclosure crisis is the federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) administered through mortgage servicers and sometimes with housing counseling agencies, such as those where I conducted fieldwork. Michigan implemented an additional protection in 2009 so that distressed homeowners, with the help of a housing counselor, could negotiate alternatives to foreclosure. Financial institutions failed to implement HAMP and other programs effectively, confounding both homeowners' and the state's efforts to safeguard citizens' welfare. Counseling agencies that offered frontline assistance simultaneously distanced their clients from the state and taught them to lower their expectations for modifications. Homeowners' experiences strained their loyalty to financial institutions they believed served their interests and, as they negotiated under the auspices of state or federal programs, their trust in public institutions. In conclusion, I argue that these mediations refigure the locations and practices of governance and citizenship.
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