Faculty Affiliate Rachel Garshick Kleit is Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the Evans School. Her research interests include public and assisted housing self-sufficiency programs; the impacts of housing programs that mix income groups; and connections between housing location, neighborhood composition, social networks, and access to opportunity.
 

Major Research Projects:

• Community Vitality Report Card
• "Westpark HOPE VI Redevelopment Evaluation" (with Lynne C. Manzo), Sponsored by the Bremerton Housing
• “Integrated or Isolated: The Impact of Public Housing Redevelopment on Social Networks,” Sponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE)

Sample Publications:

• Kleit, R. G. 2008. "Neighborhood Segregation, Personal Networks, and Access to Social Resources." Chapter 7 in James H. Carr and Nandinee Cutty (Ed.), Segregation, the Rising Costs for America. Routledge Press.
• Kleit, R. G., Manzo, L. C., Couch, D. 2008. "Moving Once is Like Having Your House on Fire Three Times:' The Experience of Place and Displacement Among Residents of a Public Housing Site." Urban Studies 45(9): 1855-1878.
• Kleit, R. G., Page, S. B. 2008. "Public Housing Authorities under Devolution." Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) 74(1-Winter): 33-44.
• Kleit, Rachel, and Lynne Manzo. 2006. "To Move or Not To Move: Relationships to Place and Relocation Choices in Hope VI" for Housing Policy Debate 17(2). Fannie Mae Foundation.

Contact Information:

Rachel Garshick Kleit
Email: kleit@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://evans.washington.edu/faculty-staff/bios/current-hz/kleit
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