The question of rent: the emerging urban housing crisis in the new century

Turk, Michael

doi:10.1111/j.0309-1317.2004.00559.x

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“…This lack of attention to the social problem of eviction -at once, an economic, geographic, judicial and political phenomenon -is particularly surprising given that research has consistently documented the fact that the poor are disproportionately prone to forced relocations, the emotional, economic, health and social impacts of which can be drastic (Bartlett, 1997;Crane and Warnes, 2000;Ehrenreich, 2001;Fischer, 2002;Gans, 1962;Hartman and Robinson, 2003;Stenberg et al, 1995;Turk, 2004). For instance, Phinney et al (2007) examined the housing problems of current and former welfare recipients in a city in Michigan.…”

Section: The Literature On Evictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Circle of Dispossession: Evicting the Urban Poor in Baltimore

Purser

2014

Critical Sociology

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Although tenant evictions are routine in impoverished urban communities throughout the USA, scholars of housing and urban poverty have consistently overlooked this social problem. Drawing predominantly upon participant observation on eviction crews in Baltimore, this study examines the social drama of eviction, focusing upon the orchestration and execution of the court-ordered physical removal of tenants and their property. I find that property managers delegate the 'dirty work' of dispossession to a dispossessed population and that laborers on eviction crews tend to differentiate and distance themselves from the people they are evicting, adopting the dominant belief that eviction is rooted in the individual, moral deficiencies of the tenant. These findings reveal that those who are excluded from the American 'paradigm of propertied citizenship' -the homeless -are used to enforce, and serve to legitimate, that very paradigm. I argue that evictions entail a circle of dispossession, reproduced both materially and ideologically. Articleby robert silverman on May 27, 2014 crs.sagepub.com Downloaded from Critical Sociology 'the paycheck looks good to [his] P.O. [parole officer] ', and Joseph, a homeless, who is hoping to scrape together enough money to start renting a room of his own. 1 By the time the Sheriff arrives, there is palpable excitement in the air. Mr. Frank, a stern, 50-something 'maintenance man' who serves as our supervisor for the day, shouts out the apartment number to which we are headed, pointing up a steep, trash-strewn hill to one of more than a dozen two-story, eight-unit, brick buildings. When Mr. Frank knocks on the door of the second floor unit, Calvin, a light-skinned, 42-year-old standing on the staircase behind me, mimics the sound of gunfire -'pow-pow-pow' -referencing the tales he shared earlier that morning about his previous experiences 'putting people out '. 'Most folks don't want to leave,' he had said, to which I had nodded in agreement. 'No, you don't get what I'm sayin'. They ain't gon' leave. They'll be sitting there with their chrome [gun] in their lap. ' The group of laborers huddled in the stairwell laugh, thrilled by the imaginary violence of this conflict-laden encounter. When no one answers, Mr. Frank -who oversees between five and 18 evictions per month in this apartment complex alone -opens the door and sets about changing the locks. We excitedly shuffle inside. The Sheriff watches as the first table is carelessly thrown onto the curb and then follows Mr. Frank and a handful of crew members to the next unit, which reeks of cat urine, forcing those inside to burrow their noses in their shirt sleeves. Eight of us are left alone to finish clearing out the unit; we are entirely unprotected, in the unlikely event that the tenant -about whom we draw numerous assumptions -returns to the property. As we throw out the bright-pink eviction notices that are scattered on the living room floor, Joseph exclaims, 'Maybe she be illiterate or shit. Or just high out of her fuckin' mind...

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Section: The Literature On Evictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Circle of Dispossession: Evicting the Urban Poor in Baltimore

Purser

2014

Critical Sociology

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“…By the late twentieth century, housing quality and the related financing had improved substantially which indirectly coerced low-income families into paying higher shares of their income toward housing (Malpezzi & Green, 1996 ; Turk, 2004 ). Besides improved quality of housing, scholars have attributed increased rent burden to macro-trends in housing construction wherein rent burden is generally exacerbated by the inadequate supply of low-income housing (Turk, 2004 ; Yates & Wulff, 2005 ). This is exemplified by the U.S. that experienced a reduced supply of low-cost and affordable rental units (Collinson, 2011 ; Gabriel & Painter, 2020 ; Immergluck et al, 2018 ).…”

Section: Rent Burden Its Determinants and Consequencesmentioning

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Rental tenure and rent burden: progress in interdisciplinary scholarship and pathways for geographical research

Sharma

Samarin

2021

GeoJournal

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Rental housing accommodates more than a billion tenants worldwide, and in recent years, rentership has been increasing in some countries. Given reduced access to homeownership in various locations due to several causes, it is critical to focus on rentership which has received relatively less attention compared to homeownership, especially within the geography scholarship. In this review article, we identify four key themes that have naturally emerged from the close examination of recent interdisciplinary literature on rentership and rental affordability. These include: (1) rental housing financialization; (2) the proliferation of single-family rentals resulting from the U.S. foreclosure crisis; (3) the determinants and consequences of rent burden; and (4) the relationship between rent burden and regional economic specialization. We discuss these themes and propose potential opportunities for the geographic analysis of rent burden, its determinants, and their relationships with regional economic specialization. We posit that the four identified themes have been developing in apparent isolation, thus making scholarship less consistent. Moreover, research on rent burden is disjointed in itself, which makes it difficult to establish a unified narrative and interlinked subthemes within the rent burden literature. Nonetheless, we contextualize the four themes in their application to geography and frame our discussion around the central notion of this article—rent burden.

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“…Most housing affordability studies have only focused on homeowners (Acquaye, 2011) or on renters (Turk, 2004;Collison & Winter, 2010;Williamson, 2011) and some research studies used tenure type as one of the variables measuring housing affordability (Lee, 2012). It is difficult to find housing studies that focus on a comparison of housing affordability by tenure type or studies that included previous tenure history as a housing affordability measurement.…”

Section: Recent Studies On Housing Affordabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Influences on Housing Cost Burden of the U.S. Households by Current and Previous Housing Tenure Types

Lee¹

2012

International Journal of Human Ecology

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The question of rent: the emerging urban housing crisis in the new century

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

The Circle of Dispossession: Evicting the Urban Poor in Baltimore

The Circle of Dispossession: Evicting the Urban Poor in Baltimore

Rental tenure and rent burden: progress in interdisciplinary scholarship and pathways for geographical research

Influences on Housing Cost Burden of the U.S. Households by Current and Previous Housing Tenure Types

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