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The American Housing Question
Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility
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2021
Summary
The American Housing Question reframes the question of affordable housing through the concepts of urban citizenship and racism. Randolph Hohle argues that when we consider who benefits from affordable housing, we end up with a complex story of inclusion and exclusion and of privilege and mobility centered around race and social class. Historically, affordable housing’s underlying logic was to create the conditions for white people to exercise the privilege of mobility. Affordable housing policy was first and foremost about granting white people the ability to live in racially-segregated neighborhoods within and across urban areas. When the beneficiaries of affordable housing policy were predominately white, the state proceeded with a comprehensive and multifaceted plan to supply housing, including public housing, subsidizing the construction of market rate housing, rental vouchers, and rent control. The white response to the Civil Rights era – the precursor to neoliberal urban policy – privatized public housing, switched the responsibility to provide affordable housing to the market, and created the conditions for the financialization of housing in the twenty-first century that have made housing unaffordable for everyone. As the author aptly demonstrates, solving America’s housing question means addressing both racism and revaluing the notion of the public.
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2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3648-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3649-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
164
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
A Post-Disciplinary Approach to America’s Housing Question No access
Housing Fields: Regulations, Elites, and Urban Social Movements No access
Racial Languages and the Domain of Affordable Housing No access
Methodology No access
Organization of the Book No access
Urban Citizenship No access
The Privilege of Mobility and the Affordable Housing Debates No access
Conclusion No access
If You Build It, They Will Go: Supply Side Affordable Housing No access
Public Housing and the White Privilege to Not Live in Slums No access
Rent Control and the Right to Stay No access
Conclusion No access
Note No access
Citizenship, Housing, and the Civil Rights Movement No access
White-Private Spaces: Disinvestment, Flight, and Resettlement No access
White-Private Vouchers and Black-Public Housing No access
Deregulating Rent Regulations: From Rent Control to Rent Stabilization No access
Conclusion No access
Note No access
From Crisis to Response to the Response to the Crisis: The Role of Race, Finance, and Globalization on Twenty-First-Century Housing No access
Urban Social Movements and the Affordable Housing Solutions No access
Toward a Solution to the American Housing Question No access
