An Alternative Enumeration of a Heterogeneous Population in a San Francisco Housing Project
An Alternative Enumeration of a Heterogeneous Population in a San Francisco Housing Project
EV92-13
Introduction
Our ethnographic site was located in San Francisco public housing. Throughout the report, we will refer to our ethnographic site as the "Projects."
In this ethnographic profile we discuss some sociocultural factors that we regard as relevant to the outcome of censusing at our site. First, it is of interest to note that the housing authority uses the term "lower income families" as opposed to "low income families" in stating who is eligible for public housing units.
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