Inclusionary Zoning and Exclusionary Development

The Politics of 'Affordable Housing' in North Brooklyn

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4383437
AutoresFilip Stabrowski (0000-0002-8189-221X, LaGuardia Community College 31‐10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, New York NY 11101 USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen39
Número6
Páginas1120-1136
Fecha de publicación2015-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.12297
OpenAlexW2180956160
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas18

A key element of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace program has been the use of voluntary inclusionary zoning, through which private developers have been offered tax breaks and density bonuses to develop affordable housing on newly rezoned land. While this program has failed to alleviate the housing affordability crisis in New York City, little attention has been paid to its political effects on community-based struggles over housing. This article addresses this question by examining the 2005 Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront Rezoning, which combined a voluntary inclusionary zoning program with a tenant services contract intended to mitigate the residential displacement effects of the rezoning. I critically examine its design, execution and monitoring, based on two years of work as an organizer and administrator of the tenant services contract. I argue that technologies of consent and control have reshaped the politics of housing in North Brooklyn by replacing resistance to gentrification with amelioration of its effects, through the anticipated creation of affordable housing. The upshot has been an emergent politics of housing in which real estate-led development is regarded not as a cause of gentrification but as its solution

Affordable housing · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Political science · Politics · Public housing · Real estate · Sociology · Zoning · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance