Housing Recovery In The Ninth Ward

Bates, Lisa K.; Green, Rebekah A.

doi:10.4324/9780429497858-11

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“…Even though the phrase “heirs property” is much more likely to be used in rural contexts, it is important to highlight the fact that racialized instances of unclear title perpetuating insecurity and poverty are not purely rural issues (Center for Community Progress, 2016; Gaither & Zarnoch, 2017; Stein & Carpenter, 2022). While the same terms might not be used, there is extensive documentation in urban contexts about the challenges presented by unclear property title, particularly with regards to barriers for residents in accessing grants and loans for property maintenance or post‐disaster recovery, remediating vacant and abandoned properties, and ultimately limiting speculation and gentrification (Accordino & Johnson, 2000; Bates & Green, 2009; Bond, 2021; Brachman, 2005; McCoy, 2019). Notably, the same tools like tax liens that can be used to dispossess heirs property holders in rural areas are also disproportionately utilized against homeowners of color in cities (Dewar et al., 2015; Kahrl, 2017; Seymour & Akers, 2022).…”

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Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US

2023

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In this review, we bridge recent studies on the political economy of urban and rural real property ownership, focusing on the US. While there are many parallels and interlinkages between urban and rural phenomena, we note that the field generally produces a different literature for each space: one largely about urban housing and another about rural land. We argue that foregrounding their common legal status as “real property” can help develop new and important analyses that unravel the urban/rural binary. Such an approach suggests, for instance, that gentrification and amenity migration are simply urban and rural manifestations of similar underlying dynamics. This awareness also helps enable the search for institutions that connect country and city, such as investors that target real property across multiple geographies. Thus, we broadly outline the points of overlap and divergence between studies of urban and rural real property ownership in order to open up space for more comparative and relational analyses. Finally, we conclude by suggesting two sets of literature that offer resources for unraveling the urban/rural binary: the work of Doreen Massey and Indigenous geographies.

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Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US

2023

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“…The "racialization of uneven urban environments" (Heynen, 2016, p. 840) has significant implications in the social construction of disasters. The racialized health inequalities revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic (Laster Pirtle, 2020;Liebman et al, 2020), the fire at Grenfell in London (Danewid, 2020), and the disproportionate impact of urban floods and droughts on racial minorities (Bates & Green, 2018;Bullard & Wright, 2009;Maldonado et al, 2016;Millington, 2018;Savelli et al, 2021;Scheba & Millington, 2018) epitomize the relation between colonialism, capitalism, and the practice of racism in generating uneven exposure and vulnerability to, and differential recovery trajectories from, disasters. To illustrate, research on the recent drought in Cape Town (2015 -2017) has shown how colonial and apartheid legacies and more recent neoliberal reforms continue to generate a segregated and highly unequal urban form, which in turn determined different degrees of vulnerability to the drought and its uneven outcomes.…”

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Speculative Political Ecologies: (re)imagining urban futures of climate extremes

Rusca,

Mazzoleni,

Barcena

et al. 2023

Journal of Political Ecology

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What role can a speculative political ecology play in (re)imaging urban futures of climate extremes? In recent years, narratives of dystopian futures of climate extremes have proliferated in geosciences, and across the media and creative arts. These anxiety-fueled narratives often generate a sense of resignation and unavoidability, which contributes to foreclosing the possibility of radically different political projects. In this article, we argue that these narratives conceal the coproduction of nature and society and treat nature as the problem, thereby locking futures into dystopic configurations. Political ecology scholarship can contribute to generate a politics of possibility by reconceptualizing the relations that constitute urban futures under climate extremes as socionatural. This, we argue, calls for a more experimental political ecology and new forms of theorizing. To this aim, we develop a speculative political ecological approach grounded on a numerical model that examines the potential of transformative change in the aftermath of extreme flood events in a capitalist city. Analytically, this opens a unique possibility of exploring urban futures beyond current trajectories, and how these alternative futures might transform vulnerability and inequality across urban spaces. From a policy perspective, we lay the foundations for a new generation of models that apprehend the role of power and agency in shaping uneven urban futures of climate extremes.

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“…Many of the disparities in housing recovery are linked to the severity of damages as a result of old and poor-quality structures that are often occupied by low-income and vulnerable households (Fothergill and Peek 2004;Haas, Kates and Bowden 1977;Peacock et al 2012; Van Zandt et al 2012; Van Zandt and Sloan 2017). This disparity in damage patterns results in the slow recovery of low-income and racial minority neighborhoods (Bates and Green 2009;Drakes et al 2021;Finch, Emrich and Cutter 2010;Gotham 2014a;Green and Olshansky 2012;Green, Bates and Smyth 2007;Hamideh and Rongerude 2018;Zhang and Peacock 2009). In addition, socially vulnerable groups sometimes face obstacles to obtaining recovery resources due to their limited education and language skills, negative public biases and stigma about their dependency and deservingness of governmental aid resources, failure to apply or repay their loans (Berke, Kartez and Wenger 1993;Hamideh and Rongerude 2018;Nguyen and Salvesen 2014), as well as their limited capacity and power to organize and pursue a collective interest, and to participate in recovery decision making (Hamideh 2020;Hamideh and Rongerude 2018;Kamel and Loukaitou-Sideris 2004).…”

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Post-Disaster Recovery Challenges of Public Housing Residents: Lumberton, North Carolina After Hurricane Matthew

Khajehei

Hamideh

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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The floods caused by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 affected Lumberton, a socioeconomically diverse city in North Carolina with 729 public housing units. Public housing residents face unique challenges in accessing resources and post-disaster temporary accommodations, further delaying their recovery compared to other survivors. This paper investigates the obstacles to public housing recovery and the residents’ recovery challenges using descriptive statistics, mapping, and qualitative analysis in Lumberton. Findings show the dependency of public housing units’ recovery on assistance policies and decisions of various organizations, including local housing authorities. Multiple changes in recovery plans and limited, uncertain, delayed funding and bureaucratic obstacles to funding allocation slow the units’ recovery and prolong the residents’ displacement, adversely affecting their recovery. Hence, pre-disaster resilience initiatives should address these vulnerabilities and the recovery policy's limitations to support public housing units and residents’ recovery. Moreover, affordable housing recovery must become a priority in national housing recovery policies.

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Housing Recovery In The Ninth Ward

Cited by 9 publications

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Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US

Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US

Speculative Political Ecologies: (re)imagining urban futures of climate extremes

Post-Disaster Recovery Challenges of Public Housing Residents: Lumberton, North Carolina After Hurricane Matthew

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