Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions

Girouard, Jennifer

doi:10.7758/rsf.2023.9.1.06

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“…The interdependent relationship between Prince George's and neighboring counties amounts to a subsidy for already unduly advantaged White middle-class residents and jurisdictions in the Washington region. The inordinate demand for housing in majority-White jurisdictions reflects systematic underinvestment by market and government actors in Black locales for decades (Katznelson 2005; Korver-Glenn 2021) and the political strategies White Americans use to maintain their economic advantages using state and local laws (Girouard 2023). If public and private investment were more evenly distributed across neighborhoods in regions, the nature of the home appreciation system would be severely destabilized (Howell and Korver-Glenn 2018).…”

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Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services

Simms

2023

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Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services

Simms

2023

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“…We still have much to learn about incorporation processes and outcomes, as well as how incorporation operates in relation to other exclusionary measures and jurisdictions. Smaller-scale, in-depth qualitative investigations of communities could shed light on both how incorporations occur and precisely how mechanisms available to incorporated communities, including zoning, are leveraged (see Girouard 2023). Investigations on this scale could also reveal how local actors, including residents, local government officials, and developers, affect these processes.…”

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Suburbs, Inc.: Exploring Municipal Incorporation as a Mechanism of Racial and Economic Exclusion in Suburban Communities

Douds

2023

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This article provides suburban scholars with a starting point for considering how municipal incorporation contributes to suburban inequality. I conduct an exploratory empirical analysis of incorporation in 2010 and find that incorporated suburbs are less racially diverse, Whiter, and have smaller shares of Black, Latinx, and Native American residents than unincorporated suburbs, suggesting that incorporation and its related municipal powers enable greater racial exclusion than strategies available to unincorporated suburbs. However, incorporated suburbs vary, and racial exclusion is most apparent in suburbs incorporated during and after the postwar suburban boom. Further, recently incorporated suburbs are more economically exclusive than unincorporated suburbs. I end by calling for greater integration of incorporation into suburban inequality research.

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“…Given the growing racial and ethnic diversity of America’s suburbs ( Lichter, Thiede, and Brooks 2023 ), local policymakers and philanthropy should work to increase the representation of historically marginalized groups in community leadership positions. Such representation will help promote development of local services more responsive to community needs (see also Girouard 2023 ). If society and policy communities wish to meaningfully reduce racial disparities in poverty and inequality, then we must remedy the racial and ethnic inequalities embedded in the nonprofit human service components of the contemporary safety net.…”

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Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets

Allard

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2023

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Poverty in U.S. suburbs surged to historic highs in the early part of the twenty-first century. Although poverty was on the rise in many suburban areas during the 1990s, the recession of 2001 and the Great Recession that ended in 2009 led to dramatic increases in the number of poor people living in suburbs (Berube and Kneebone 2013). Scott Allard (2017) finds that suburbs in the largest hundred metropolitan Volatility and Change in Suburban NonprofitSafety Nets scot t w. a ll a r d a nd eliz a betH pelletier Rising poverty in suburbs has led to increased interest in how well suburban safety nets function. Apart from public assistance programs, community-based nonprofit health and human service organizations play a central role in suburban efforts to address racial and economic inequalities. Understanding how nonprofit services are distributed across the suburban and urban landscape, therefore, is critical to assessing how communities may be able to address need. In this paper, we examine the presence and volatility of nonprofit health and human service expenditures in suburban and urban counties across the United States from 2000 to 2017. We find the nonprofit safety net to be more responsive in urban centers than in suburban places, and less robust in suburban areas experiencing high rates of poverty or with a larger share of residents who are Black. Nonprofit health and human service spending also appears less countercyclical than is commonly understood. Suburban-urban disparities in nonprofit health and human service spending persist after controlling for several county-level demographic and socioeconomic factors.

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Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services

Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services

Suburbs, Inc.: Exploring Municipal Incorporation as a Mechanism of Racial and Economic Exclusion in Suburban Communities

Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets

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