This study integrates theories of landlord maintenance behavior with theories of neighborhood succession in a unified empirical model. The model permits a broad range of landlord responses to neighborhood decline including the possibility of increased maintenance expenditure as reported in...

This research employs probit analysis to examine the selection criteria governing nonuniform application of concentrated housing code enforcement in the city of St. Louis. The study has three specific objectives: (1) to identify the goals and geographic selection criteria characteristic of St....

Most theories of neighborhood decline assume a reduction in expenditures for repair and maintenance of housing. Findings reported in this paper suggest that this view is overly simplistic. Based on analysis of 127 low-income rental properties in the city of St. Louis, Missouri during the 1960s...