Number of 1993 Maintenance Deficiencies
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Number of 1987 Maintenance Deficiencies
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The data for these items consist of a count of all households answering
affirmatively to the specific maintenance deficiency items collected in
1987 and 1991. In order to be counted in one of the five 1987 deficiency
categories, all of the following items had to be reported: heating equipment
breakdown, additional heating required, rodent infestation, cracks/holes
in the walls, ceilings or floors, and broken plaster/peeling paint larger
than 8 1/2 X 11 inches. In 1991 the list was expanded to include toilet
breakdowns and water leaks. Data are presented separately for the "1987"
and the "1991" deficiency items. |
Boarded up Buildings in Neighborhood
(Respondent)
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The respondent is asked whether there are buildings with broken or boarded
up windows in his/her neighborhood, which would encompass the area the respondent
considers his/her neighborhood. |
Buildings with Broken or Boarded
Up Windows on Street (Observation)
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This information is gathered by the field interviewer. It concerns buildings
with broken or boarded up windows on the same street (both sides within
the same block) as the sample unit. |
Neighborhood Residential Structure
Condition Rating (Respondent)
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The respondent's overall opinion of the physical condition of the residential
structures in his/her neighborhood. |
Length of Lease
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A lease is defined as a contract granting use or occupation during a specified
period in exchange for rent. The length of lease is from the time the lease
originated, not from the time of the interview. The data are limited to
households paying cash rent. |
Cooperative/Condominium Status of
Building Development
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Householder lived in Unit at Time
of Conversion to Coop/Condo
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Non-eviction Conversion to Coop/Condo
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Rental apartments can be converted to condominiums or cooperatives through
either an "eviction" plan or a "non-eviction" plan.
A "non-eviction" plan allows persons who occupied an apartment
at the time it became a condominium or cooperative to continue to occupy
and rent the apartment without purchasing it. Tenants may not be evicted
if they do not buy their unit. Data for this item are limited to renter
occupied condominiums and cooperatives. |
Presence of Plumbing Facilities
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A housing unit has complete facilities if it has hot and cold piped water,
a flush toilet, and a bathtub or shower. All facilities need not be located
in the same room, but they must be in the unit. Complete plumbing facilities
are for exclusive use if they are used by the occupants of the unit. |
Toilet Breakdown
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Based on respondent's report of whether there was a time in the three month
period preceding the survey when all the toilets in the apartment (house)
were not working for six consecutive hours. |
Presence of Kitchen Facilities
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A housing unit has complete kitchen facilities if it has a sink with piped
water, a range or cookstove, and a refrigerator. All facilities must be
located in the unit although they do not need to be in the same room. Kitchen
facilities are for exclusive use if they are only used by the occupants
of the unit. |
Functioning of Kitchen Facilities
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A kitchen facility is considered to be functioning if it works at all, even
if imperfectly. |
Rent Subsidy
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This refers to whether the Federal, state, or local government pays part
of the householder's rent. If the householder is receiving public assistance
or welfare payments, this item refers to any rent subsidy over and above
the shelter allowance. Payment may go directly to the landlord on behalf
of the householder, or it may go directly to the householder with the restriction
that the money must be used to pay for housing. Section 8 and the "housing
voucher" Federal programs are examples of rent subsidy programs. |
Respondent Reported Rent Control
Status
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Rent regulation status is the status as reported by the respondent. The
response to this question is NOT used in defining the final rent regulation
status of the unit in the HVS tables. |
