Benjamin F Teresa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 224524 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Benjamin F Teresa |
| NOMBRES | Benjamin F |
| APELLIDO | Teresa |
| FIRMA | TERESA B F |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5118-9865 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Beyond generation rent: Political economy, inequality, and the private rental sector , by Michael Byrne
Across wealthy Western countries, the private rental sector (PRS) has expanded since the 2008 financial crisis, rent burdens have deepened, and tenant organizing has reemerged as a political force....
The political aspects of “full housing”
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, the U.S. Congress appropriated nearly $50 billion for Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) to stabilize tenant housing, while the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued temporary protections against eviction. Real estate industry groups responded by mounting an aggressive legal campaign to overturn the CDC’s eviction protections—a campaign that succeeded when the U.S. Supreme Court ended the order less than a yea…
Moving From Crisis to Stability? The Success and Limits of an Eviction Prevention Program
Eviction prevention policies are often crafted to focus on either an upstream approach, prior to households interacting with eviction court, or a downstream approach, once the court process has begun and when households are in an acute housing crisis. This paper examines one such upstream approach, the Virginia Eviction Reduction Pilot (VERP) program, implemented in a first phase from 2021 to 2022 in the context of statewide Emergency Rental Assi…
Centering artist voices
This essay explores our work collecting artist experiences and attending to the voices of artists themselves in two US cities. Prompted by an earlier phase of focus group research in Philadelphia with artists who voiced their needs as workers, we undertook a survey of working artists in Philadelphia and Richmond, Virginia. This survey research asks about the spatial patterns of artists living, working, and presentation locations and how that geog…
Power in the Court
Existing research shows that tenants are disadvantaged in eviction proceedings, but studies have provided an incomplete account of the way court procedures and practices work together to produce systematic disadvantage. We draw on legal aid attorneys' accounts of eviction hearings-particularly how courts establish whether and how much rent is owed-to show how hearings routinely result in judgments in favor of plaintiffs even when tenants have a l…
A data feminist approach to urban data practice
Acknowledging the role of data in reproducing (and disrupting) existing power relationships, this article argues data feminism is a useful intervention in data practice for planners and others interested in engaging in data ethics evaluation of complex urban problems. Through critical organizational analyses of eviction-related projects in Atlanta, Georgia, and Richmond, Virginia, we illustrate the data feminism approach to reimagining eviction d…
Youth participatory action research as an empowerment-based method for community change
Youth participatory action research (YPAR) centers the experiences of young people as experts in issues impacting their lives. The process of engaging in YPAR has potential to create positive outcomes for youth researchers, including skills associated with empowerment. As such, YPAR is a valuable method for building community power and capacity for change. Little is understood about the process by which empowerment happens through YPAR, including…
“The map of race is the map of Richmond”
While the immediate correlates of eviction have been investigated at length, little has been done to connect the root causes in policy and planning over more than a century to the current moment of dispossession. This paper uses analysis of historic documents, including plans, newspaper articles and maps, as well as eviction, geographic foreclosure, and other quantitative data and observational data to make an argument for viewing the state of ev…
The reemergence of land contracts in Chicago
Planners' Alchemy Achieved? How Nimby and Yimby Reproduce the Housing Question
A laissez-faire Yes-In-My-Back-Yard (YIMBY)-ism is not a solution to Not-In-My-Back-Yard (NIMBY)-ism; rather it represents the other side of the coin of capitalist development. YIMBYism reproduces the 'Housing Question' as Engels posed it, by shifting housing problems across time and space, and in their form. Until YIMBYism contains a critique of capitalist uneven development, it will not fundamentally address the causes of housing problems
Land Fictions
Eviction and Segmented Housing Markets in Richmond, Virginia
This article examines the relationship between housing market segmentation and eviction in Richmond, Virginia. Housing market segmentation conceptualizes housing consumption through multiple distinct submarkets instead of a unitary regional market. To examine the production of housing segmentation we rely on an original large-building database for all multifamily buildings in Richmond with more than 25 units, which we complement with qualitative …
Why do we always talk about immigrants with a language of “difference”? Neighborhood change and conflicts in Queens, New York
The literature on planning in immigrant communities has been one based on the premise that immigrants are different from native-born people, and therefore planning for immigrant communities must therefore also be different. In this article, we challenge that premise through a discussion of a set of neighborhood developments and conflicts in Queens, New York, the most diverse county in the United States. We root those conflicts not in different cu…
The specter of the “art-less city”
Artists and creativity are on the urban agenda. Scholars and policymakers have embraced the role of artists as key drivers of economic growth and urban vitality. Yet, accounts of artists’ agency often reduce artists to members of a creative class, rendering the arts an instrument for economic growth and erasing important class and racial differences in the field. This paper centers artists’ perspectives through four focus group discussions with a…
New dynamics of rent gap formation in New York City rent-regulated housing
To explain newfound investor interest in rent-regulated multifamily housing in New York City since 2001, this paper analyzes the transformation in ownership and management of the Riverton Houses, a large rent-regulated housing complex in northern Manhattan. The paper finds new dynamics of rent gap formation at work; rather than depressed capitalized rent attracting investment, increasing potential rent provides a new mechanism for opening rent ga…
Speculative Charter School Growth in the Case of UNO Charter School Network in Chicago
Charter school advocates see the infusion of market competition into the educational sector as a means to achieving greater efficiency, effectiveness, and equity. Within this framework, consumer demand is understood to regulate the charter sector. This article challenges the adequacy of this premise, arguing that the structure of the financing of charter schools plays a decisive, if not determining, role in directing growth. Drawing on an analysi…
Locating rationalities in planning
The three articles of this special feature in Urban Geography examine how market rationality is deployed and resisted as a dominant framework for planning and making urban space. Planning involves
Rationalizing tax increment financing in Chicago
A central problem in planning is how planners can be both technical experts and political actors sensitive to the moral consequences of planning. Rationality refers to the reasons for choosing a means to achieve an end; a rationality that considers the morality of means and ends is value rationality, and one that does not is instrumental rationality. Through the case of using Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to subsidize corporate headquarters reloc…
Managing fictitious capital
Since 2001 investors have purchased rent-regulated housing in New York City with heightened expectation for financial performance, placing pressure on tenants and communities through increasing rents, harassment, eviction, and when financial targets are not met, physical deterioration of buildings. At the heart of this investment strategy is fictitious capital, the extension of credit based on assumptions about future events. This paper shows tha…
New dynamics of rent gap formation in New York City rent-regulated housing
To explain newfound investor interest in rent-regulated multifamily housing in New York City since 2001, this paper analyzes the transformation in ownership and management of the Riverton Houses, a large rent-regulated housing complex in northern Manhattan. The paper finds new dynamics of rent gap formation at work; rather than depressed capitalized rent attracting investment, increasing potential rent provides a new mechanism for opening rent ga…
Managing fictitious capital
Since 2001 investors have purchased rent-regulated housing in New York City with heightened expectation for financial performance, placing pressure on tenants and communities through increasing rents, harassment, eviction, and when financial targets are not met, physical deterioration of buildings. At the heart of this investment strategy is fictitious capital, the extension of credit based on assumptions about future events. This paper shows tha…
The reemergence of land contracts in Chicago
Planners' Alchemy Achieved? How Nimby and Yimby Reproduce the Housing Question
A laissez-faire Yes-In-My-Back-Yard (YIMBY)-ism is not a solution to Not-In-My-Back-Yard (NIMBY)-ism; rather it represents the other side of the coin of capitalist development. YIMBYism reproduces the 'Housing Question' as Engels posed it, by shifting housing problems across time and space, and in their form. Until YIMBYism contains a critique of capitalist uneven development, it will not fundamentally address the causes of housing problems
Rationalizing tax increment financing in Chicago
A central problem in planning is how planners can be both technical experts and political actors sensitive to the moral consequences of planning. Rationality refers to the reasons for choosing a means to achieve an end; a rationality that considers the morality of means and ends is value rationality, and one that does not is instrumental rationality. Through the case of using Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to subsidize corporate headquarters reloc…
The specter of the “art-less city”
Artists and creativity are on the urban agenda. Scholars and policymakers have embraced the role of artists as key drivers of economic growth and urban vitality. Yet, accounts of artists’ agency often reduce artists to members of a creative class, rendering the arts an instrument for economic growth and erasing important class and racial differences in the field. This paper centers artists’ perspectives through four focus group discussions with a…
A data feminist approach to urban data practice
Acknowledging the role of data in reproducing (and disrupting) existing power relationships, this article argues data feminism is a useful intervention in data practice for planners and others interested in engaging in data ethics evaluation of complex urban problems. Through critical organizational analyses of eviction-related projects in Atlanta, Georgia, and Richmond, Virginia, we illustrate the data feminism approach to reimagining eviction d…
Speculative Charter School Growth in the Case of UNO Charter School Network in Chicago
Charter school advocates see the infusion of market competition into the educational sector as a means to achieving greater efficiency, effectiveness, and equity. Within this framework, consumer demand is understood to regulate the charter sector. This article challenges the adequacy of this premise, arguing that the structure of the financing of charter schools plays a decisive, if not determining, role in directing growth. Drawing on an analysi…
Power in the Court
Existing research shows that tenants are disadvantaged in eviction proceedings, but studies have provided an incomplete account of the way court procedures and practices work together to produce systematic disadvantage. We draw on legal aid attorneys' accounts of eviction hearings-particularly how courts establish whether and how much rent is owed-to show how hearings routinely result in judgments in favor of plaintiffs even when tenants have a l…
Locating rationalities in planning
The three articles of this special feature in Urban Geography examine how market rationality is deployed and resisted as a dominant framework for planning and making urban space. Planning involves
Youth participatory action research as an empowerment-based method for community change
Youth participatory action research (YPAR) centers the experiences of young people as experts in issues impacting their lives. The process of engaging in YPAR has potential to create positive outcomes for youth researchers, including skills associated with empowerment. As such, YPAR is a valuable method for building community power and capacity for change. Little is understood about the process by which empowerment happens through YPAR, including…
Locating rationalities in planning
The three articles of this special feature in Urban Geography examine how market rationality is deployed and resisted as a dominant framework for planning and making urban space. Planning involves
Rationalizing tax increment financing in Chicago
A central problem in planning is how planners can be both technical experts and political actors sensitive to the moral consequences of planning. Rationality refers to the reasons for choosing a means to achieve an end; a rationality that considers the morality of means and ends is value rationality, and one that does not is instrumental rationality. Through the case of using Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to subsidize corporate headquarters reloc…
Managing fictitious capital
Since 2001 investors have purchased rent-regulated housing in New York City with heightened expectation for financial performance, placing pressure on tenants and communities through increasing rents, harassment, eviction, and when financial targets are not met, physical deterioration of buildings. At the heart of this investment strategy is fictitious capital, the extension of credit based on assumptions about future events. This paper shows tha…
Speculative Charter School Growth in the Case of UNO Charter School Network in Chicago
Charter school advocates see the infusion of market competition into the educational sector as a means to achieving greater efficiency, effectiveness, and equity. Within this framework, consumer demand is understood to regulate the charter sector. This article challenges the adequacy of this premise, arguing that the structure of the financing of charter schools plays a decisive, if not determining, role in directing growth. Drawing on an analysi…
New dynamics of rent gap formation in New York City rent-regulated housing
To explain newfound investor interest in rent-regulated multifamily housing in New York City since 2001, this paper analyzes the transformation in ownership and management of the Riverton Houses, a large rent-regulated housing complex in northern Manhattan. The paper finds new dynamics of rent gap formation at work; rather than depressed capitalized rent attracting investment, increasing potential rent provides a new mechanism for opening rent ga…
Why do we always talk about immigrants with a language of “difference”? Neighborhood change and conflicts in Queens, New York
The literature on planning in immigrant communities has been one based on the premise that immigrants are different from native-born people, and therefore planning for immigrant communities must therefore also be different. In this article, we challenge that premise through a discussion of a set of neighborhood developments and conflicts in Queens, New York, the most diverse county in the United States. We root those conflicts not in different cu…
The specter of the “art-less city”
Artists and creativity are on the urban agenda. Scholars and policymakers have embraced the role of artists as key drivers of economic growth and urban vitality. Yet, accounts of artists’ agency often reduce artists to members of a creative class, rendering the arts an instrument for economic growth and erasing important class and racial differences in the field. This paper centers artists’ perspectives through four focus group discussions with a…
Land Fictions
Eviction and Segmented Housing Markets in Richmond, Virginia
This article examines the relationship between housing market segmentation and eviction in Richmond, Virginia. Housing market segmentation conceptualizes housing consumption through multiple distinct submarkets instead of a unitary regional market. To examine the production of housing segmentation we rely on an original large-building database for all multifamily buildings in Richmond with more than 25 units, which we complement with qualitative …
“The map of race is the map of Richmond”
While the immediate correlates of eviction have been investigated at length, little has been done to connect the root causes in policy and planning over more than a century to the current moment of dispossession. This paper uses analysis of historic documents, including plans, newspaper articles and maps, as well as eviction, geographic foreclosure, and other quantitative data and observational data to make an argument for viewing the state of ev…
The reemergence of land contracts in Chicago
Planners' Alchemy Achieved? How Nimby and Yimby Reproduce the Housing Question
A laissez-faire Yes-In-My-Back-Yard (YIMBY)-ism is not a solution to Not-In-My-Back-Yard (NIMBY)-ism; rather it represents the other side of the coin of capitalist development. YIMBYism reproduces the 'Housing Question' as Engels posed it, by shifting housing problems across time and space, and in their form. Until YIMBYism contains a critique of capitalist uneven development, it will not fundamentally address the causes of housing problems
A data feminist approach to urban data practice
Acknowledging the role of data in reproducing (and disrupting) existing power relationships, this article argues data feminism is a useful intervention in data practice for planners and others interested in engaging in data ethics evaluation of complex urban problems. Through critical organizational analyses of eviction-related projects in Atlanta, Georgia, and Richmond, Virginia, we illustrate the data feminism approach to reimagining eviction d…
Youth participatory action research as an empowerment-based method for community change
Youth participatory action research (YPAR) centers the experiences of young people as experts in issues impacting their lives. The process of engaging in YPAR has potential to create positive outcomes for youth researchers, including skills associated with empowerment. As such, YPAR is a valuable method for building community power and capacity for change. Little is understood about the process by which empowerment happens through YPAR, including…
Centering artist voices
This essay explores our work collecting artist experiences and attending to the voices of artists themselves in two US cities. Prompted by an earlier phase of focus group research in Philadelphia with artists who voiced their needs as workers, we undertook a survey of working artists in Philadelphia and Richmond, Virginia. This survey research asks about the spatial patterns of artists living, working, and presentation locations and how that geog…
Power in the Court
Existing research shows that tenants are disadvantaged in eviction proceedings, but studies have provided an incomplete account of the way court procedures and practices work together to produce systematic disadvantage. We draw on legal aid attorneys' accounts of eviction hearings-particularly how courts establish whether and how much rent is owed-to show how hearings routinely result in judgments in favor of plaintiffs even when tenants have a l…
Moving From Crisis to Stability? The Success and Limits of an Eviction Prevention Program
Eviction prevention policies are often crafted to focus on either an upstream approach, prior to households interacting with eviction court, or a downstream approach, once the court process has begun and when households are in an acute housing crisis. This paper examines one such upstream approach, the Virginia Eviction Reduction Pilot (VERP) program, implemented in a first phase from 2021 to 2022 in the context of statewide Emergency Rental Assi…
Beyond generation rent: Political economy, inequality, and the private rental sector , by Michael Byrne
Across wealthy Western countries, the private rental sector (PRS) has expanded since the 2008 financial crisis, rent burdens have deepened, and tenant organizing has reemerged as a political force....
The political aspects of “full housing”
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, the U.S. Congress appropriated nearly $50 billion for Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) to stabilize tenant housing, while the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued temporary protections against eviction. Real estate industry groups responded by mounting an aggressive legal campaign to overturn the CDC’s eviction protections—a campaign that succeeded when the U.S. Supreme Court ended the order less than a yea…
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