A new agenda for public housing

Robbins, Glyn

doi:10.1080/13604813.2020.1739922

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“…There are also critiques of incremental urbanism for its inability to redress inequities [51,52]. Large-scale social housing, if done right, is still not ruled out as an appropriate scale at which to solve the affordability crisis [53][54][55].…”

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The Scale of Urbanism

Talen

2023

Urban Science

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While scale is an essential factor in discussions about sustainable cities, there is no common understanding of what scale is or how it should be measured. This paper sheds light on the issue of scale by suggesting how it might be measured and evaluated. My purpose is to offer both a methodological and empirical contribution to the understanding of scale, using Chicago as a case study. Using historical Sanborn maps, I first investigate scale change over time, focusing on a selection of 31 sites that are now “mega-developments” but were originally composed of small-scale buildings and blocks. I quantify that the historical urban fabric had five times as many buildings, and a much higher percentage of buildings with mixed use. I then look at the city as a whole and compare urban scale to pedestrian quality to assess whether there is a quantifiable difference between large- and small-scale urbanism. I find that, at least for Chicago, small scale urbanism is associated with higher pedestrian quality. For the third part of the analysis, I correlate scale and socio-economic characteristics at the census tract level. The results illuminate a mixed set of differences between scale and socio-economic characteristics like income and housing value.

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The Scale of Urbanism

Talen

2023

Urban Science

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“…First, by the displacement from the demolition of public housing; a childhood and early adult memory and source of stability. Second, from the vast inequities that permeated the housing market, financialised housing production, and created incentives to “churn” these displaced households into new geographies of precarity that are far removed from the spaces of care that were created in the developments (Eastgate 2016; Robbins 2020). The result of this ongoing displacement and increasing dislocation from sources and avenues of support such as a housing authority or tenant association, is a feeling of anomie from the entire city and their former communities.…”

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“What is Our City Doing for Us?”: Placing Collective Care into Atlanta’s Post‐Public Housing Movements

Rodriguez

2022

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Throughout the 20th century, housing movements in Atlanta were anchored by public housing tenant associations and a politics that materially and spatially addressed intersectional issues of discrimination in employment, welfare, education, and housing. I argue the strategies and outcomes of these movements collectivised, embedded, and placed Anneli Anttonen and Jorma Sipilä’s “care capital”—or an expansion of resources for care—in bell hooks’ “homeplaces”, for those marginalised both in social welfare policies and urban politics. Following the loss of over 7,000 public housing units in Atlanta, tenant associations’ care politics and the residents served were displaced and disembedded from the revitalised city. Using archival data, semi‐structured individual and group interviews, and observation of tenant organising meetings, this work examines how care politics are materially and spatially situated across housing movement geographies through Black resistance strategies to collectivise and embed care capital for a broader public.

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“…There is currently a review on the legality of the expropriation proposal and if it is found to be legal, a referendum may follow (Knight 2019). A housing solution will require building more social housing (Robbins 2020). Berlin is demonstrating that social movements pressuring global cities might succeed in pushing for the revitalization of a stronger local state “intervening in the market” in more radical ways (Gennburg and Coulomb 2020, 6).…”

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Beyond Neoliberalism: A Policy Agenda for a Progressive City

Joy

Vogel

2021

Urban Affairs Review

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The urban crisis—poverty and inequality, un—and under-employment, inadequate and unaffordable housing and public transportation, pollution and climate disasters—is the result of the failure of the neoliberal agenda to produce adequate funds and capacities to ensure the provision of services necessary for the city to function and its residents to thrive, especially the most vulnerable, and increasingly, the middle class. In the last few years, there appears to be a potential for a new more radical direction in urban policy. Yet, urban scholars and practitioners have been slow to notice the new possibilities that reopens the question of whether cities may engage in redistributive policies. In reviewing the history and current practice of progressive politics and policy in cities, this paper explores what a policy agenda for a progressive city might entail and identifies themes and questions for a renewed urban politics research agenda.

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A new agenda for public housing

Cited by 8 publications

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The Scale of Urbanism

The Scale of Urbanism

“What is Our City Doing for Us?”: Placing Collective Care into Atlanta’s Post‐Public Housing Movements

Beyond Neoliberalism: A Policy Agenda for a Progressive City

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