The Performance of Property: Suburban Homeownership as a Claim to Citizenship for Filipinos in Daly City

Pido, Eric J.

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“…This experience is shared by many Filipinos. Like African Americans, they too followed a path to the outer edges of the Bay Area and the possibilities of seemingly affordable homeownership through the reality of debt (Stone 2009) a path rooted in notions of citizenship and the American dream linked to homeownership (Pido 2009). This experience, which saw populations decline in San Francisco while almost doubling in the high foreclosure counties of San Joaquin, Contra Costa and Solano (Figure 9), is reflected in the following quote from a prominent local Filipino commentator:…”

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Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Schafran¹

2017

The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City

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Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Schafran¹

2017

The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City

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“…This experience is shared by many Filipinos. Like African Americans, they too followed a path to the outer edges of the Bay Area and the possibilities of seemingly affordable homeownership ‘through the reality of debt’ (Stone, 2009), a path rooted in notions of citizenship and the American Dream linked to homeownership (Pido, 2009). This experience, which saw populations decline in San Francisco while almost doubling in the high‐foreclosure counties of San Joaquin, Contra Costa and Solano (see Figure 8b), is reflected in this quote from a prominent local Filipino commentator:…”

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Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Schafran¹

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Communities on the fringes of the American metropolis have recently garnered attention as the centers of the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath. On the one hand, this attention to the urban nature of the crisis is welcome, as the metamorphosis of the mortgage fiasco into a financial crisis‐cum‐global economic meltdown turned popular attention away from the urban roots of this calamity. But this emphasis on the exurbs as the site of crisis lends itself to the misconception that they, rather than the restructuring of the metropolis as a whole, are the sole source of the crisis. This article works across multiple scales to examine how three interwoven factors — demographics, policy and capital — each reacted to the San Francisco Bay Area landscape inherited at the end of the 1970s, affecting the region in new ways, leaving some places thriving and others struggling with foreclosure, which leads to plummeting property values and the deep uncertainty of the current American metropolis. This restructuring can be seen as the convergence between the unresolved urban crisis of the postwar era and the various reactions in the neoliberal era. It demands a reimagining of both planning and geography, especially from the left. Résumé Les communautés vivant à la périphérie des métropoles américaines ont récemment suscité l’attention comme pôles de la crise des saisies hypothécaires et de ses conséquences. Cet intérêt pour la nature urbaine de la crise est opportun, car la métamorphose du fiasco immobilier en crise financière alliée à un effondrement de l’économie mondiale a détourné l’attention des racines urbaines de ce désastre. Cependant, pointer ainsi les périphéries comme sites de la crise cautionne l’idée fausse selon laquelle elles seules en sont la source, et non la restructuration urbaine dans son ensemble. Cette analyse opère à plusieurs échelons afin d’examiner comment trois facteurs entrelacés (démographie, politique et capital) ont chacun réagi au paysage de Bay Area hérité de la fin des années 1970, dans la région métropolitaine de San Francisco. Celle‐ci a été affectée de façons nouvelles, laissant certains lieux florissants et d’autres aux prises avec les saisies hypothécaires, la situation conduisant à l’effondrement de l’immobilier et à une incertitude profonde de la métropole américaine actuelle. On peut envisager cette restructuration comme la convergence de la crise urbaine non résolue de l’après‐guerre avec les diverses réponses données à l’époque néolibérale. Cela implique de réimaginer à la fois l’urbanisme et la géographie, en particulier de la part de la Gauche.

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“…Density and congestion reminded them of unpleasant urbanism in both Asia and the United States, while Chinatowns embodied a type of metropolitan chaos unassociated with upward mobility. 88 In these corporate suburbs, shrewd developers quickly learned to satisfy this market of immigrants chasing the suburban American Dream. Beginning in the mid-1980s, builders such as KB and Shea hired feng shui consultants to review blueprints and construction sites.…”

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Design Assimilation in Suburbia

Nicolaides

Zarsadiaz

2016

Journal of Urban History

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Ethnic suburban settlement has shaped suburban landscapes in contrasting ways. On one end are ethnoburbs, where ethnic groups used spatial politics to assert their rights of ethnic expression in the landscape. On the other-less noticed-end are places where ethnic settlers arrived en masse, and their presence was scarcely visible. This article focuses on the latter, towns where ethnic suburbanites consented to existing design mores-what we term design assimilation. Using case studies from Asian American suburbs of the west and east San Gabriel Valley, we explore the history of places where Anglo design aesthetics persisted in the midst of profound demographic change. Multiple factors created and protected these landscapes, including stringent regulatory cultures of these suburbs, white political action, accommodations by builders, and Asian American consent. Asian suburbanites supported these landscapes for aesthetic, nostalgic, political, and economic reasons, including the belief that American landscape aesthetics conveyed a social distinction that positioned them above those around them-including other Asians in the ethnoburbs. Our work shows how suburban advantage has been reinforced by new waves of immigrant suburbanites, in ways that reflect the inequities and spatial expression of globalization itself. This work offers a new perspective on immigrant suburbanization and its interface with suburban "landscapes of privilege."What happens when places with long-standing design traditions confront radical social transformation? This is a phenomenon unfolding over broad swaths of our metropolitan areas, and it is especially striking in suburbs receiving large numbers of immigrants. The San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles offers a vivid example. As a prime destination of Asian immigration, the suburban 1 Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,

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The Performance of Property: Suburban Homeownership as a Claim to Citizenship for Filipinos in Daly City

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Design Assimilation in Suburbia

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