Comparative urban indicators in the New York and Buffalo areas: based on an Urban Institute report, 1973
Caring for the poor of Buffalo : attacking the causes of poverty in Buffalo, 1907
Charity Organization Society
Labor Takes the High Road: How Unions Make Western New York More Prosperous and Equitable, 2019
Racial Equity Dividend, 2018
City of Buffalo
Poverty in Buffalo: Causes, Impacts, Solutions, 2018
Profile of Financial Hardship in Erie County, 2016
United Way of Buffalo
Preventing Deterioration and Abandonment of Rental Properties in Buffalo, 2008
Amy Kaslovsky
Do workers move when their plant is relocated? The case of the Ford Motor Company plant relocation, 1960
What happened after Ford left Buffalo for Ohio
Twenty thousand transients: a one year's sample of those who apply for aid in a northern city, 1935
Buffalo during the Great Depression
Unemployment in Buffalo, 1929-1932
4 editions online
Census of Business 1935. Geographic Distribution of Retail Trade in Buffalo
Statistics and information relative to the trade and commerce of Buffalo
5 editions online from the 19th century
Removing the Rust: Comparative Post-Industrial Revitalization in Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, 2015
Homelessness Among Young Adults in Buffalo: A Research Report Highlighing Youth Voices, 2015?
Elizabeth Bowen & others
Neighborhood as Commons: Reframing the Problem of Neighborhood Decline, 2015
Based on a study of a single block on Buffalo's west side
Census of business. Changes in retail trade in Buffalo in 1929, 1933, and 1935. An analysis of stores and trade in the grocery, drug, shoe, and men's apparel trades
Census of business: Major retail center statistics, Buffalo, 1963
U.S. Department of Commerce
Youth employment study, report and recommendations, 1963
Occupational Wage Survey: Buffalo, New York, October 1959
Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 1265-4
Social Organization of a Boardinghouse: Archaeological Evidence from the Buffalo Waterfront, 2000
Like Crabs in a Barrel: Economy, History and Redevelopment in Buffalo, 2005
When one hears laments about the state of Buffalo's economy—and one does hear such laments quite often these days—that economy is usually measured against an assertedly normal or healthy economy, usually the City's economy in the Fifties. Almost as often one hears ideas about what might improve Buffalo's economy. Generally these ideas can be gathered into two groups, one nostalgia for those high wage, unionized, grunt jobs that everyone remembers from the Fifties and the other pining after whatever seems hot elsewhere in the country – high tech, biotech, architectural tourism, gambling.
East Side Corridor Economic Development Fund, 2019
Part of the Buffalo Billion project
Local Sales and Celebrations: A History of Retailing, Marketing and Consuming in Western New York, 1920-1940
Sarah Lynn Elvins
Area Wage Surveys, Buffalo metropolitan area
Several editions online
Annual report of the Buffalo Merchants' Exchange, including statistics of the trade and commerce of Buffalo
1883-1910, with gaps
Low-income neighborhoods in large cities, 1970 : Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y
Retail trade mortality in Buffalo, 1918-28: groceries, drugs, hardware, shoes
Economic Development in Buffalo: Community, Change and Fragmentation, 1991
Susan C. Turner
Decline of Buffalo, New York in the Postwar Era: Causes, Effects, and Proposed Solutions, 2011
Buffalo, New York has undergone a precipitous decline in the postwar era, losing more than half its population and much of its economic base. The blame for this decline has traditionally fallen on failed government intervention, lack of quality local leadership, an overcompensated and under worked union workforce, environmental concerns, natural resource depletion, and oppressive taxes. This study will focus on these various causes in an attempt to pinpoint the reasons for decline, not for the purpose or laying blame, but to set the groundwork for possible solutions that will stem the decli...
Urban stall: Development failure in Buffalo and Western New York from 1980 to 2004