The Spatial Isolation of Elderly Single-Room-Occupancy Hotel Tenants* |
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| Authors: | Paul A Rollinson |
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| Institution: | PAUL A. ROLLINSON (ph.D., university of Illinois Urbana), is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65804. His interests include urbansocial geography, low-income housing, displacement, and homelessness. |
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| Abstract: | This paper documents the spatial activity of elderly SRO hotel tenants in the service-dependent ghetto. Exploratory fieldwork was conducted in a neighborhood of Chicago during 1985 and 1986. At four of the identified hotels, 53 activity spaces were recorded by first-hand involvement in the geographical activity of the participants. The fear of both street crime and social-service agencies imposes isolation upon this population. |
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| Keywords: | Spatial activity SRO hotel isolation |
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