W(h)ither the community in community land trusts?

DeFilippis, James; Stromberg, Brian; Williams, Olivia R.

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“…51 These are physical and discursive sites where difference has historically functioned as a way to legalize inequality by distributing rights based on formalizing racial and class divisions. 52 In this context, insurgencies appropriate the language of national citizenship to counter the inequalities produced by the legal construction of privileged citizen-subjects. 53 This notion of citizenship that is based on recognizing formal difference as the first step toward insurgency must be distinguished from debates about sociopolitical rights through the lens of the politics of difference, which shaped feminist and then gay and lesbian debates about inclusion to national citizenship between 1970 and 2000 and are still prevalent today.…”

Section: Citizenship Debatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…51 Inhabiting the same sidewalks, the queens exchanged word-of-mouth tips about violent tricks and devised survival tactics that involved sharp heels, heavy custom-designed purses, and weapons made from beer bottles. 52 Moreover, dressing in drag was a punishable offense. It was often enough reason for a queen to be arrested, harassed, and brutally beaten by the notorious Tenderloin police patrols.…”

Section: Seeking Sheltermentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Suburban Frontier

Mercer

2024

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MAPS 1. Map of the Tenderloin 22 2. San Francisco neighborhoods with historical locations of gay and lesbian businesses 46 3. Map of the ARC/AIDS Vigil site and its location in downtown San Francisco 107 4. Map of East Oakland showing the location of the Liberated 23rd Avenue building in Fruitvale 138 Figure 2. The rainbow crosswalk at Castro and Eighteenth Streets in January 2018. Similar crosswalks are installed in queer neighborhoods in cities around the United States and abroad. Photograph by Andriy Bezuglov. © Alamy. If the notion of a multicultural national community is revealed as always already fragmented and incomplete, the analytical lens of insurgent citizenship highlights how these fragments can relate to each other in contingent, uneasy, and constantly shifting alliances. Understanding social stratification as a structural part rather than an aberration of national citizenship helps identify precise moments when insurgencies in physical spaces expand the scope of what it means to belong to the city and the nation. This sense of belonging is the outcome of local attachments that people develop in physical spaces. 56 Employing a framework of 20 1 Spaces of Separation, Assimilation, and CitizenshipThe Tenderloin comprises thirty blocks in less than half a square mile in downtown San Francisco. Its physical environment is characterized by four-to six-story residential buildings, each occupying about half a block's depth, with commercial storefronts. There is a dearth of open space other than streets and sidewalks, all arranged on a regular urban grid, with longer faces on the east-west axis, as envisioned by Jasper O'Farrell in his 1849 vision for the development of a Gold Rush instant city. 1 By the turn of the twentieth century, it was home to many bars, clubs, and jazz venues, which together with the nearby Barbary Coast made up the center of San Francisco's famously rowdy nightlife. 2 The popular media has long tended to frame the Tenderloin as an insular vice district, but its public face at the southern edge, Market Street, is also the city's major transit and commercial corridor, with ample sidewalks, shopping, and performance venues catering to socially diverse audiences. 3 This physical environment, dense, timeworn, and squeezed between Civic Center in the west and the city's main tourist hotel area around Union Square in the east, shaped the neighborhood's character as a seedy, neon-lit adult playground.In black-and-white video footage used in the 1970 documentary Gay San Francisco, the Tenderloin's sidewalks are illuminated by the lights of shop windows, marquees, and vehicular traffic-a metropolitan look very different from typical representations of San Francisco's quirky residential neighborhoods on rolling hills in the national media. 4 As the camera traverses the streets of the Tenderloin, the narrator announces: "This is gay San Francisco. An inside look at the life of San Francisco's homosexuals. They work to conceal their sexual orientation by day, and only at night do they show the...

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Section: Citizenship Debatesmentioning

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The Suburban Frontier

Mercer

2024

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“…As a socially embedded model, contextual and historical factors influence CLTs' intensity and type of community control (Crabtree, 2020). The advancement of the model in the US, combined with a focus on its economic benefits, has contributed to the promotion of CLTs as a mechanism of affordable housing provision to the detriment of community control (Gray & Galande, 2011;DeFilippis et al, 2018). Growing fiscal austerity also impairs the power of a community within CLTs (Williams, 2018).…”

Section: Community Land Trusts (Clts): An Overviewmentioning

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“…DeFilippis and colleagues (2018) also point to the growth of CLTs beyond the neighborhood level as a restraint to implementing and maintaining community control and public and philanthropic funders' tendency to use CLTs as a policy intervention with little or no intention of community control and transformation. The loss of community from CLTs due to these and other factors distances the model from its original purposes of radical social change through community control and empowerment (DeFilippis et al, 2018). Ultimately, resident engagement is essential for community control (Lowe & Thaden, 2015).…”

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Community Land Trusts in Contexts of Informality: Process, politics and challenges of implementation

Basile¹,

Ribeiro²

2022

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Informal settlements house a significant portion of the world's population, who frequently struggle due to lack of proper housing, urban infrastructure, and insecure tenure. This is an overwhelming reality in Global South countries, requiring alternatives to guarantee permanent and secure affordable housing to residents while promoting community empowerment and quality of life improvements. Community land trusts offer promise for housing struggles due to their mechanism of securing housing affordability permanently and their premise of community control of development. However, despite such promise, there are scarce experiences of community land trusts in contexts of informality. Based on recent and ongoing CLT implementation experiences in Puerto Rico and Brazil, we explore the process, politics, and challenges of community land trust implementation in informal settlements. We consider its potentiality to support housing struggles and mitigate long-lasting dispossession in different urban and housing realities throughout the urban Global South.

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“…Whether through participatory slum upgrading in the Global South or through community land trusts and limited equity cooperatives in the Global North, communities and practitioners throughout the world are attempting to expand the reach of these commons, be it through “scaling up” or “going viral” (Moore and Mullins, 2013). However, as such practices have expanded, recent research points to a dilution of the ethos of strong community control as the aim of creating affordable housing overtakes the transformative politics that originally underpinned the models (DeFilippis et al, 2018). This investigation speaks to these concerns and the need to pay close attention to the political content of commoning practices as such housing models spread throughout the world.…”

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Commoning or being commoned? Institutions, politics, and the role of the state in collective housing policy in Bangkok, Thailand

Shelby

2021

Planning Theory

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This article theorizes the potential roles of the state in the urban commons through an analysis of a slum upgrading program in Thailand that employs collective forms of land tenure. In examining the transformation of the program from a grassroots movement to a “best practice” policy, the article demonstrates how the state has expanded from mere enabler of the commons to active promoter. In the process, the role of many residents has evolved from actively creating the institutions of collective governance— commoning—to adopting institutions prescribed by the state— being commoned. However, by comparing the work to two different groups of communities who work within the context of the policy, the article illustrates how active commoning can still take place in such contexts.

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W(h)ither the community in community land trusts?

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The Suburban Frontier

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Community Land Trusts in Contexts of Informality: Process, politics and challenges of implementation

Commoning or being commoned? Institutions, politics, and the role of the state in collective housing policy in Bangkok, Thailand

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