The New Suburbanites by Robert W. Lake

Author:Robert W. Lake [Lake, Robert W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781412848589
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. The New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Taxation, maintains centralized records of real property sales based on the Realty Transfer tax stamps affixed to the deed. These data have been compiled annually by the Treasury Department since 1965. Arms-length transfers refer to sales between unrelated parties in which the sale price is a valid representation of market value. The "Usable Sales" records used for sampling for the Recent Buyers Survey, therefore omit property transfers between members of the same immediate family, foreclosure, bankruptcy, or sheriffs sales, transfers in which "love and affection" or a nominal payment are a part of the consideration, and similar nonstandard title transfers. The three-year period ending in June 1977 was the most recent period for which sales data were available at the initiation of sampling in September 1978.

2. Property sales were relatively evenly distributed over the three-year period, with 30.1 percent in 1974/75, 32.4 percent in 1975/76, and 37.4 percent in 1976/77, The slight increase in the proportion of sales in the latter year may reflect the effects of the national recession in 1974/75.

3. Interviews were terminated on a quota basis within each community. All interviews were completed until 100 successful white interviews were obtained; white interviews were subsequently terminated until at least 25 black interviews were obtained, whereupon all further interviews were completed. Note that the termination of white interviews obviates analysis of the magnitude of white home purchases but has no effect on relative proportions within the white group.

4. A response to Question 1 of less than fifteen months indicated that the unit had been purchased in the time interval between the end of the sampling

period (June 1977) and the beginning of interviewing (September 1978). In these cases, updated sales price and assessment data corresponding to the date of the most recent sale were obtained from the local tax assessor's office.

5. The distribution of survey respondents across neighborhood categories is fairly uniform for each of the five communities. This uniformity assures that interneighborhood differences can be ascribed to neighborhood racial categories and not to differences among the study sites. Montclair respondents, for instance, comprise between 21 and 36 percent of each neighborhood type, Teaneck respondents between 25 and 36 percent, and so on. The primary exception is in Ewing Township, which is slightly overrepresented in the All-White neighborhood category: Ewing respondents comprise 28.9 percent of this category but only between 7 and 12 percent of the remaining three categories. The low proportion black population and narrow geographic extent of integrated neighborhoods in Ewing accounts for this discrepancy.

6. The standard deviation of income is $17,890 for whites and $13,610 for blacks.

7. Ronald E. Wienk, et alMeasuring Racial Discrimination in American Housing Markets: The Housing Market Practices Survey (Washington, D.C.: Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1979).

8. Thomas F. Pettigrew, "Attitudes on Race and Housing: A Social-Psychological View," in Segregation in Residential Areas, ed. Amos H. Hawley and Vincent P. Rock (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1973), pp. 21-84; Angus Campbell, White Attitudes Toward Black People (Ann Arbor, Mich.

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