Pub Date : 2023-05-06DOI: 10.1177/15356841231172524
R. Bartram
This article draws on interviews with homeowners who have applied for home repair programs in Chicago and New Orleans to investigate how home repairs, and the lack thereof, shape residential and financial stability. I illuminate the relationship between housing precarity and a mundane and pervasive environmental housing issue: routine dilapidation that occurs over the life of all physical structures. I argue that routine dilapidation makes otherwise affordable housing unaffordable and demonstrate three mechanisms by which routine dilapidation worsens housing precarity: as a path to displacement, by preventing safe aging in place, and by exacerbating debt. My findings, coupled with existing research, suggest that these mechanisms disproportionately impact low-income Black senior women because they are more likely to own homes in need of repairs and are less likely to have resources to pay for repairs. I also use the concept of routine dilapidation to illuminate that homeownership produces environmental injustice more broadly. Routine dilapidation is not only a form of environmental injustice that disproportionately impacts some populations; it is inherent to the organization of the contemporary U.S. housing market.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1177/15356841231152616
Jonathan Tollefson, S. Frickel, Summer Gonsalves, Thomas Marlow
The urban environmental inequality literature holds that marginalized communities are generally concentrated in neighborhoods with greater levels of industrial pollution and lesser access to parks and playfields. Yet, “green” and “brown” land uses are also linked historically and through contemporary practices of green redevelopment. This article thus begins from the understanding that it is important to analyze both forms of urban land use at once, to avoid mistaking one historical process for another. Focusing on Providence, Rhode Island (1970–2010), we leverage original historical data on the location and operating years of public parks alongside comprehensive industrial site data to analyze the joint transformation of residential populations, parks, and industry over time. We find that park access generally increases for Latinx residents; however, after accounting for increases in park access associated with past industrial land use, we find that census tracts with growing proportions of African American residents are associated with relatively less access to parks than other census tracts. Results reveal additional dimensions to the role of industrial history in shaping the socioenvironmental trajectory of local neighborhoods and additionally emphasize the importance of a historical and relational view of urban land use in urban environmental research.
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