ASSESSMENT OF HOMEOWNERSHIP AND ASSET POVERTY IN THE ALABAMA BLACK BELT AND NON-BLACK BELT COUNTIES

Peter M. Kanyi, Ntam Baharanyi, Mudiayi Sylvain Ngandu and Robert Zabawa

No 6795, 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: This study assessed homeownership and how it is affected by race, residency in or out of Alabama Black Belt, family status, poverty and other variables. All variables showed significant relationship to Alabama homeownership with single-parenthood showing a negative impact on White homeownership but insignificant to Black homeownership in the region.

Keywords: Public; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2008
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hap and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6795/files/sp08ka14.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:saeaed:6795

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6795

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().