ards, and educational achievement, Mott Haven is one of the three highest risk communities in all of New York City's 59 community districts (Woudstra, 1999, p. 4). More than half its households earned less than $10,000 a year in 1996 and "had unemployment rates that were nearly twice as high as the citywide rate" (Woudstra, 1999, p. 6). In Mott Haven, more than 40 percent of each household's income goes toward rent, often in inadequate facilities with limited safety, sanitation, or room. Very few of Mott Haven's residents live in single-family residences or own their own homes. Most, like the majority of residents throughout New York City, are renters, owing their needs for shelter to their landlords.
Throughout the Bronx, an estimated 4 out of every 10 children receive some kind of public assistance, and at least half of Mott Haven's children under the age of 5 receive assistance from the Woman, Infants and Children (WIC) program (Woudstra, 1
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