The American Housing Question: Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility - Couverture rigide

Hohle, Randolph

 
9781793636485: The American Housing Question: Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1793636486 ISBN 13 : 9781793636485
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2021

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Randolph Hohle is associate professor of sociology at SUNY-Fredonia.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1793636486
ISBN 13 
9781793636485
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
174
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9781793636508: The American Housing Question: Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility

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ISBN 10 :  1793636508 ISBN 13 :  9781793636508
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2023
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