Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/15356841241260046
Yung Chun, Jason Jabbari, A. Foell, Pranav Nandan, Yi Chen, Michal Grinstein-Weiss
Leveraging novel case management data, we present the first comprehensive investigation into the role of case management services in housing relocation and return decisions within the framework of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), the current place-based public housing revitalization program. Our study employs multinomial logistic (MNL) regression models to demonstrate that a higher level of involvement in case management services is correlated with an increased probability of moving to a higher-income neighborhood during the redevelopment process, as well as a greater likelihood of returning to the revitalized neighborhood afterward. By achieving these outcomes, case management services play a crucial role in enhancing the chances for original CNI residents to reap the benefits of neighborhood redevelopment—a matter of enduring concern among social scientists. These findings are contextualized with both sociodemographic and neighborhood characteristics associated with relocation and return decisions.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-16DOI: 10.1177/15356841241248941
Analena Hope Hassberg
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Pub Date : 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1177/15356841241245677
Akira Drake Rodriguez, Prentiss A. Dantzler
The public housing program was designed as a stepping-stone into upward socioeconomic mobility when the first developments were constructed for White and Black households in the 1930s. White residents were able to save and move into private housing with greater speed than Black residents, who faced both external and internal constraints on their socioeconomic status. As a result of this decreased mobility, scholars and policymakers soon associated public housing developments with impoverished Black containment, categorizing it as the home of the underclass and those who are stuck in place. This article employs a Du Boisian approach to understand the categorical differences and political economic conditions shaping mobility rates among Atlanta’s early Black public housing families. Using historical documents and approximately 40 years of administrative data collected from the first Black public housing development in Atlanta, Georgia by housing managers, Du Bois, and a group of research assistants from Atlanta University, this article examines how internal and external constraints shaped Black tenant mobility. It demonstrates how housing administrators and their actions shaped eviction rates—and by default, public housing’s ability to advance Black tenant mobility—through elite housing managers’ moral judgments of impoverished Black families.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-25DOI: 10.1177/15356841241248949
Louise Seamster
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1177/15356841241240685
Stefanie DeLuca, Jennifer Darrah-Okike, K. Nerenberg
Residential segregation by race and class is a durable form of inequality. Yet, we know less about how the unequal sorting of families into neighborhoods and schools occurs. Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 156 families, we examine whether residential and school decisions are connected and how they differ by household income. We find that, for higher-income families, residential decisions maintain and build on existing educational advantages, while lower-income parents churn between both houses and schools, doing the continuous work of compensating for unequal settings. Only the highest income—mostly White—parents report that they can combine their housing and school decisions and achieve satisfaction in both domains. In contrast, housing insecurity and unequal, racially-stratified geographies constrain less advantaged, primarily minority families to prioritize affordable shelter over school choice. When such trade-offs lead to inadequate educational experiences for their children, these families try to improve their children’s schools through re-optimization strategies, withdrawing and re-enrolling them into different schools. While some parents perceive that these changes benefit their children, such school transfers can also increase educational instability. More generally, the lack of quality schools in affordable neighborhoods burdens families by requiring compensatory strategies to resolve housing and educational shortcomings.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1177/15356841241245024
AJ Golio
The study of gentrification has traditionally found its theoretical roots among the debates between production- and consumption-focused scholars, lending the field a heavily class-based focus. Despite some sociological inquiry into gentrification as an urban process that is also racialized, there are several crucial gaps within this line of inquiry. I here argue that a research agenda inspired by the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois can help to more fully conceptualize the intersection of race and gentrification. Drawing particularly from The Philadelphia Negro while also incorporating key concepts from other works, I show that Du Boisian theory can help us to: (1) understand the role of whiteness as a construct that begets spatial privileges within gentrification processes; (2) articulate racialized displacement as a cultural and affective phenomenon; and (3) account for the agency of local residents in augmenting or living with gentrification processes. I conclude with a call to also pay attention to the transnational context.
对城市化的研究历来在注重生产的学者和注重消费的学者之间的争论中找到其理论根基，从而使这一领域具有浓厚的阶级色彩。尽管有一些社会学研究将绅士化作为一个种族化的城市进程，但在这一研究领域还存在一些关键的空白。在此，我认为受 W. E. B. Du Bois 著作启发的研究议程有助于更全面地概念化种族与城市化的交集。我特别从《费城黑人》中汲取灵感，同时结合其他作品中的关键概念，说明杜波依斯的理论可以帮助我们：（1）理解白人作为一种结构在城市化进程中产生空间特权的作用；（2）将种族化的流离失所作为一种文化和情感现象加以阐述；以及（3）解释当地居民在加强或与城市化进程共存的过程中的作用。最后，我呼吁大家也关注跨国背景。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1177/15356841241238462
Steven Schmidt
Sociologists have shown how displacement reproduces inequality among U.S. renters. Less is known about the experiences of renters prior to displacement, or how the trade-offs that renters adopt to avoid moves also stratify families. This article addresses this gap by examining how renters with few housing alternatives manage landlord neglect in routine maintenance. Using interviews with 131 non-Hispanic white and Latina/o, low- and middle-income renters living in Los Angeles, I find that unaffordable rental markets embed disadvantaged families, particularly low-income Latina/o immigrants, into substandard indoor living environments. Unable or reluctant to move, renters endure a process that I call negotiating neglect, which encompasses decision making around repair requests, following up with repair delays, investing personal funds into maintenance, and managing the health consequences of disrepair. Negotiating neglect demands substantial time, cognitive labor, and, at times, financial resources, and for some families, it is a chronic stressor. Taken together, these findings advance prior research on how unaffordable rental markets widen inequalities among families.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1177/15356841241231492
S. Luhr
Over the past decade, housing prices in many regions of the United States have increased precipitously. This is especially true in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region that has experienced an influx of highly paid tech workers and a tightening of the housing market. Against this backdrop, this article examines the strategies and compromises that a racially and socioeconomically diverse group of Bay Area residents use to maintain housing. Drawing on survey and interview data, the article finds that both homeowners and nonhomeowners described feeling “stuck in place” as prices rose around them. Yet nonhomeowners made greater compromises to maintain housing, including (1) living in structurally inadequate housing; (2) moving in with friends and relatives; and (3) accepting legally precarious living arrangements. Although research on housing often focuses on why families move, this article reconfigures immobility as a deliberate process, documenting the trade-offs families make to keep their homes.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1177/15356841241228708
Jessica T. Simes
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Pub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1177/15356841241228708
Jessica T. Simes
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