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The American Housing Question - Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility (Hardcover)
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The American Housing Question - Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility (Hardcover)
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The American Housing Question reframes the question of affordable
housing through the concepts of urban citizenship and racism.
Randolph Hohle argues that when we consider who benefits from
affordable housing, we end up with a complex story of inclusion and
exclusion and of privilege and mobility centered around race and
social class. Historically, affordable housing's underlying logic
was to create the conditions for white people to exercise the
privilege of mobility. Affordable housing policy was first and
foremost about granting white people the ability to live in
racially-segregated neighborhoods within and across urban areas.
When the beneficiaries of affordable housing policy were
predominately white, the state proceeded with a comprehensive and
multifaceted plan to supply housing, including public housing,
subsidizing the construction of market rate housing, rental
vouchers, and rent control. The white response to the Civil Rights
era - the precursor to neoliberal urban policy - privatized public
housing, switched the responsibility to provide affordable housing
to the market, and created the conditions for the financialization
of housing in the twenty-first century that have made housing
unaffordable for everyone. As the author aptly demonstrates,
solving America's housing question means addressing both racism and
revaluing the notion of the public.
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