The Benefits of Including Engaged Residents and Professionals in Low-Income Neighborhood Redevelopment Planning Processes

Walker, Laurie A.; East, Jean F.

doi:10.1080/10705422.2014.929063

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“…The project applied a community-driven methodology designed to amplify the voices of minority and working-class residents. It paralleled some of the tools and techniques applied in other community-based analyses (Walker and East, 2014;Sandoval and Rongerude, 2015;Keita et al, 2016). The focus of the Turning the Corner project was to identify planning strategies to address negative externalities caused by neighborhood change and heightened risks of displacement because of revitalization.…”

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Place making as a form of place taking

Silverman¹,

Taylor

Yin

et al. 2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptions of institutional encroachment and community responses to it. Specifically, it focuses on residents’ perceived effects of hospital and university expansion and the role of place making on gentrification in core city neighborhoods. This study offers insights into the processes driving neighborhood displacement and the prospects for grassroots efforts to curb it. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through focus groups with residents and other stakeholders in working class, minority neighborhoods which were identified as being in the early stages of gentrification. Nine focus groups were held across three neighborhoods experiencing institutional encroachment. The analysis was guided by standpoint theory, which focuses on amplifying the voices of groups traditionally disenfranchized from urban planning and policy processes. Findings The findings suggest that residents perceived institutional encroachment as relatively unabated and unresponsive to grassroots concerns. This led to heightened concerns about residential displacement and concomitant changes in the neighborhoods’ built and social environments. Experiences with encroachment also increased residents’ calls for greater grassroots control of development. Originality/value This analysis illuminates how gentrification and displacement results from both physical redevelopment activities of anchor institutions and their decisions related to place making. The conclusions highlight the importance of empowering disenfranchized groups in the place-making process to minimize negative externalities at the neighborhood level.

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Place making as a form of place taking

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Taylor

Yin

et al. 2019

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“…For the first case study, the detailed contextual information about the neighborhoods, the Resident Advisory Council process, as well as the methods including the research design, participant characteristics and sampling, data collection process, and data analysis appear in Walker & East (2014), who noted:…”

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“…MC-D convened the community organizing and development staff they funded in planning a process that engaged residents and local anchor institutions (e.g., the housing authority and city government employees). This work indirectly engaged Denver universities via student internships and projects focused on neighborhood planning (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2016;Walker & East, 2014). The RAC process was evaluated utilizing federal funding received by the first author of this paper while a graduate student (Walker & East, 2014).…”

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“…Later iterations of public policy included the creation of public-private partnerships that stimulate the economy through public housing redevelopment programs, e.g., Housing for People Everywhere VI (HOPE VI) and Choice Neighborhoods. These last two programs do not directly relate to university land and development, but do influence both the nature of development collaborations in the neighborhoods adjacent to universities and the types of collaborations universities engage in via community engagement and research (Etienne, 2012;Walker & East, 2014;Wilson, 1996). The culmination of these various neoliberal urban renewal interventions resulted in a larger scale, "gentrification [that] has evolved beyond the domain of small private pioneers to being something that only 'corporate gentrifiers' -developers with enough capital to invest in valorized inner-city markets -can engage in" (Etienne, 2012(Etienne, , p. 1063.…”

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The Roles of Foundations and Universities in Redevelopment Planning

Walker¹,

East²

2018

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Laurie A. Walker, the 2017 recipient of the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Montana. Together with her co-author, Dr. Jean F. East, Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, they have raised, in this piece, an important and insightful critical lens on the implications of higher education institutions' "engagement" with their local communities. It looks deeply into the implications of the "blind spot" identified by Baldwin (2017), which "comes largely from the assumption that higher education, while hypnotized by corporate power, is still an inherent public good, most clearly marked by its taxexempt status for providing services that would otherwise come from the government." They examine how campuses may be deeply involved in the local urban area and also advancing a self-interest that may not be a public interest -through gentrification, and through what Baldwin calls "noneducational investments in real estate, policing, and labor" that "can carry negative consequences for neighborhoods of color." Walker and East are asking us to more closely examine how campuses can get so involved in the cities of which they are a part as to be a dominant force that does not advance the public good, but the good of the campus. This is a dilemma and a question that many of the CUMU member campuses have already faced or may face in the coming years, and goes to the heart of the public good of higher education in a neoliberal age.-John Saltmarsh, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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“…Indeed, while the exclusion of residents from policy-making has been, and continues to be, the trend across the United States, there are important exceptions. For recent examples, see Walker and East (2014), as well as The Right to the City Alliance's ''We Call These Projects Home'' study, which offers a powerful example of resident-informed research (Sinha & Kasdan, 2013). Nonetheless, it is critical for researchers to interrogate the ways that academic scholarship compounds oppression.…”

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Resident experts: The potential of critical Participatory Action Research to inform public housing research and practice

Thurber

Collins

Greer³

et al. 2018

Action Research

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Policies affecting those living in poverty are often created without the direct and meaningful participation of the people meant to be served. This has been especially the case with public housing. To contextualize the need for alternative approaches to inquiry, we begin by examining the history of public housing through the lens of oppression and present critical Participatory Action Research as an alternative approach to research and policy-making. We provide a case study of a critical Participatory Action Research project sited in a public housing project slated for redevelopment. We conclude that engaging “resident experts” in the research process heightened the validity and credibility of the findings, amplified residents' self-determination, and provided greater congruence between the researchers' social justice values and our research methods.

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The Benefits of Including Engaged Residents and Professionals in Low-Income Neighborhood Redevelopment Planning Processes

Cited by 10 publications

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Place making as a form of place taking

Place making as a form of place taking

The Roles of Foundations and Universities in Redevelopment Planning

Resident experts: The potential of critical Participatory Action Research to inform public housing research and practice

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