Gregory D Squires
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 108425 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gregory D Squires |
| NOMBRES | Gregory D |
| APELLIDO | Squires |
| FIRMA | SQUIRES G D |
| AFILIACIONES | George Washington University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 93 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 327 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
"Buyers "Always Spend More Than They Think They Will; They Just Don't Know It Yet
The relationship between inclusionary zoning policies and population health
Despite the gradual decline of the poverty rate in the United States in recent years, rising housing costs have continued to make access to affordable housing a substantial problem across the count
Furthering fair housing
The federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) passed in 1968 has long had a dual mandate: ameliorating discrimination and creating more integrated neighborhoods. Far more attention and commitment has been pai
Pollution, place, and premature death
Neighborhood life expectancy varies by as much as 10 years across the City of Louisville. In 2013, the Greater Louisville Project funded by local government, businesses, and foundations, argued these differences had little to do with environmental factors. The Greater Louisville Project (2013) study argued that these neighborhood differences could be attributed 40% to socio-economic factors (with a major emphasis on education), 10% to physical en…
“Mama, I can’t breathe.” Louisville’s dirty air has steep medical and economic costs
The calls for greater racial equity also means cleaning up the air, water, and soil. Poor people needlessly suffer more in Louisville than the same low-income people in West Coast cites. If we adopted the same tough, environmental regulations as our West Coast Counterparts West Louisville would surely bloom instead of slowly die. The unfairness between black and white neighbourhoods is stark and vivid. As the great urbanist, Jane Jacobs, once sai…
Redlining
Redlining is a policy or practice of denying credit or providing credit on more onerous terms to people in particular neighborhoods for reasons unrelated to creditworthiness such as their race or ethnicity. Lenders – and even the federal government – have long engaged in redlining. With passage of the Fair Housing Act and other civil rights laws the more explicit forms of redlining ameliorated. But predatory lending practices constituted a form o…
Gentrifier, by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill
After the Projects
Healing our divided society
“Everybody does better when everybody does better” (p. vi) is the appropriate opening epigram, penned by Jim Hightower, for this retrospective on the 50th anniversary of the Report of the National
Is Collaborative, Community-Engaged Scholarship More Rigorous Than Traditional Scholarship? On Advocacy, Bias, and Social Science Research
Contrary to the charge that advocacy-oriented research cannot meet social science research standards because it is inherently biased, the authors of this article argue that collaborative, community-engaged scholarship (CCES) must meet high standards of rigor if it is to be useful to support equity-oriented, social justice agendas. In fact, they argue that CCES is often more rigorous than traditional scholarship. The authors draw from cases of CCE…
The Color of Law
Steering, Racial Real Estate
Racial real estate steering occurs when homeseekers are guided by housing providers to communities where the racial or ethnic group to which they belong is already highly concentrated. So, as racial and ethnic minorities are channeled to integrated or predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods and whites are shown homes primarily in white communities, steering contributes directly to the segregated housing patterns that have long persisted in urban com…
Evicted
Twenty years ago when I served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board, I was frequently advised by staff that the only way to move the Fed was with numbers, meaning sophistic
After the Crisis
Steering in Real Estate
Steering is a process by which providers of housing and housing related services direct families to neighborhoods in which their race is highly represented. Many actors and agencies have long been involved in racial steering, including government agencies, real estate and rental agents, and mortgage lenders. Though prohibited by law, the practice continues and contributes significantly to segregated housing.
Behind the white picket fence
Behind the white picket fence: Power and privilege in a multiethnic neighborhood, by Sarah Mayorga-Gallo." Journal of Urban Affairs, 39(1), pp. 143–144
Can renewal happen without removal? Case study of a poor black neighborhood on the rebound
During the latter half of the twentieth century, many inner city neighborhoods with majority black/African American populations fell into decline, neglect, and crime. East Russell, an inner city neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, was no different. It was ranked as one of the most dangerous and impoverished neighborhoods in the USA. In 1992, with no previous precedent, community leaders wanted "renewal" without population displacement. Currentl…
Foreclosure Is Not an Equal Opportunity Stressor
Foreclosure rates persist at high levels, segregation remains a central organizing feature of metropolitan regions, and a variety of health problems continue to plague metropolitan regions across the United States. Each of these issues is the subject of much policy debate and scholarly research. Missing from most of this discussion, however, is the intersection of these social forces. In recent years, a connection between foreclosures and health …
Metropolitan Segregation and the Subprime Lending Crisis
Unsustainable high-cost lending was a major contributor to one of the worst financial crises in U.S. history. While several studies examine individual- and community-level predictors of high-cost lending, little research has tested for the possible causal effect of racial segregation. Using two-stage least squares statistical models, we find evidence that even after controlling for percentage minority, poverty, unemployment, low credit scores, ho…
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the worst in American history, not least because of the government’s inept and cavalier response. But it is also a huge story for other reasons; the impact of the hurricane was uneven, and race and class were deeply implicated in the unevenness. Hartman …
Inequality, Advocacy, and the Foreclosure Crisis
Inequality has been a critical missing link in most policy debates over the causes and consequences of, and potential responses to, the foreclosure and related economic crises of recent years. This paper examines the impact of various trajectories of inequality on these events, the role of advocacy groups attempting to respond to these challenges, pushback from the industry, and potential next steps for ameliorating the costs. A key finding is th…
Emergency Homeless Shelters in North America
One of the most contentious issues in many cities is the fierce debate over the location, management and quality of homeless shelters. While these debates rage in places around North America, little research has been done on housing policy concerning homeless shelters. The purpose of this research was to provide an inventory of a broad cross-section of cities in North America in order to develop recommendations for more effective policies, practi…
Beyond the Mobility versus Place Debate
David Imbroscio has once again offered provocative ideas for effectively addressing urban poverty in metropolitan areas across the country. But in “Beyond Mobility” he has developed an incomplete a
Investors
Foreclosures have become one of the most important problems facing cities and the U.S. economy. However, not all communities are affected equally. Our goal is to better understand factors that affect variation in neighborhood foreclosures in a typical, mid-sized U.S. city—Louisville, Kentucky. While previous findings indicate that a key explanatory variable leading to rising neighborhood foreclosures is the proportion of racial minorities, our an…
Manuel B.Aalbers2011
Neoclassical economics have long dominated discussions of access to credit and the more contentious debates over redlining. Not everyone gets the loan they applied for but, according to this perspective, the allocation of credit largely reflects the qualifications of individual applicants and the objective assessments by lenders of the financial risks they pose. Qualified borrowers receive loans on favored terms. Riskier borrowers are rejected or…
Privileged Places
David Rusk, former Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has observed that "bad neighborhoods defeat good programs". This paper identifies the underlying causes of bad neighbourhoods along with their costs to local residents and residents throughout the region. It is a critical essay that traces recent patterns of uneven metropolitan development, the social forces generating these patterns, their many costs and potential remedies. It demonstrates how…
The Personal Costs of Subprime Lending and the Foreclosure Crisis
Objective. Research on widespread loan failures suggests that many of the mortgage loans that were made since 2000 were of a deceptive or predatory nature. This study explores the experiences and sentiments of those who are at risk of foreclosure within a broader framework of trust, individualization, and ontological security. Methods. Interviews examine families' lending experience and how they have coped with their personal troubles that result…
From Redlining to Reinvestment
Does fringe banking exacerbate neighborhood crime rates
Experiencing Residential Segregation
Explicit considerations of race and unlawful racial discrimination persist as critical factors in the continuing segregation of urban housing markets. On the basis of a telephone survey of Washington, D.C. area households, the authors find that current black households were almost twice as likely as white households to not get their first choice when they moved into their current homes, more than one-fourth of black householders report that they …
The politics of preventable deaths
Objective: To examine the association between (1) local political party, (2) urban policies, measured by spending on local programmes, and (3) income inequality with premature mortality in large US cities. Design: Cross sectional ecological study. Outcome measures: All cause death rates and death rates attributable to preventable or immediate causes for people under age 75. Predictor measures: Income inequality, city spending, and social factors.…
Is Collaborative, Community-Engaged Scholarship More Rigorous Than Traditional Scholarship? On Advocacy, Bias, and Social Science Research
Contrary to the charge that advocacy-oriented research cannot meet social science research standards because it is inherently biased, the authors of this article argue that collaborative, community-engaged scholarship (CCES) must meet high standards of rigor if it is to be useful to support equity-oriented, social justice agendas. In fact, they argue that CCES is often more rigorous than traditional scholarship. The authors draw from cases of CCE…
Linguistic Profiling
Linguistic profiling,” the identification of a person’s race from the sound of their voice and the utilization of that information to discriminate on the basis of race, has been documented in the home rental market. This article examines this phenomenon in the home insurance industry. From an analysis of matched-paired tests conducted by fair-housing organizations, we find that home insurance agents are generally able to detect the race of someon…
Does the Community Reinvestment Act Help Minorities Access Traditionally Inaccessible Neighborhoods
Recent research has established that the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) has increased mortgage lending in low-income and minority communities. This study examines the extent to which the CRA has helped racial minorities purchase homes in predominantly white neighborhoods from which they traditionally have been excluded. We use 2000 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reports (HMDA) and 2000 decennial census data to examine the relationship between min…
Fringe Banking in Milwaukee
Check-cashing businesses constitute a growing industry, particularly in low-income and non-white neighborhoods. This case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, finds that check-cashing businesses are concentrated in the central city while conventional banks are concentrated in outlying city and suburban communities. These services are growing, despite relatively high fees, primarily because of their convenient hours and locations for central-city reside…
Investors
Foreclosures have become one of the most important problems facing cities and the U.S. economy. However, not all communities are affected equally. Our goal is to better understand factors that affect variation in neighborhood foreclosures in a typical, mid-sized U.S. city—Louisville, Kentucky. While previous findings indicate that a key explanatory variable leading to rising neighborhood foreclosures is the proportion of racial minorities, our an…
Neighborhood Racial Composition and Mortgage Lending
Racially discriminatory mortgage lending patterns have been documented in several cities, despite the fact that such practices are illegal under the Federal Fair Housing Act and other federal and state laws. This study finds that in Milwaukee, as in several other metropolitan areas, racial composition of neighborhood is negatively associated with mortgage lending activity by depository institutions even after the effects of income, condition of h…
Racial Profiling, Insurance Style
Racial profiling has emerged as a highly contentious practice in a range of social settings. This article examines the role of racial profiling in the property insurance industry and how such practices, grounded in negative racial stereotyping, have contributed to racial segregation and uneven metropolitan development. From a review of industry underwriting and marketing materials, court documents, and research by government agencies, industry an…
Foreclosure Is Not an Equal Opportunity Stressor
Foreclosure rates persist at high levels, segregation remains a central organizing feature of metropolitan regions, and a variety of health problems continue to plague metropolitan regions across the United States. Each of these issues is the subject of much policy debate and scholarly research. Missing from most of this discussion, however, is the intersection of these social forces. In recent years, a connection between foreclosures and health …
Foreclosures—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
After the Projects
Beyond the Mobility versus Place Debate
David Imbroscio has once again offered provocative ideas for effectively addressing urban poverty in metropolitan areas across the country. But in “Beyond Mobility” he has developed an incomplete a
Mortgage Lending and Race
The significance of race in mortgage lending has emerged as a major public policy issue and focus of scholarly research in the United States. In this paper the experiences of black and Latino mortgage loan applicants in a large midwestern metropolitan area are examined by means of a database on the disposition of individual mortgage loan applications that is now available. It is found that, after controlling for income, age of housing, housing va…
Detroit
Urban Decline or Disinvestment
The insurance redlining debate poses challenging policy issues for public officials and theoretical concerns for urban sociologists. Using disclosure laws recently enacted in a few states, researchers can now begin examining the underwriting practices of insurers by neighborhoods in selected cities. In this initial exploratory study, we review the controversy and some pertinent general conditions in the property casualty insurance industry. Then …
Do Lenders who Redline Make More Money than Lenders who Don't
While it is widely recognized that racial minorities and residents of distressed urban communities experience relatively greater difficulty in obtaining mortgage loans, there is little consensus on the causes of such lending patterns. This study examines the relationship between lender profitability and the percentage of their loans and loan dollars that are invested in Milwaukee's central city and to racial minorities throughout the metropolitan…
Insurance Redlining and the Process of Discrimination
Insurance redlining and the racially discriminatory consequences of the sale of property insurance have been documented in several cities throughout the United States. In this study teams of “testers”—comparably qualified insurance consumers who differed only in the racial composition of the neighborhood of the homes they sought to insure—contacted three Milwaukee area insurance companies regarding the possibility of purchasing insurance for thei…
Can renewal happen without removal? Case study of a poor black neighborhood on the rebound
During the latter half of the twentieth century, many inner city neighborhoods with majority black/African American populations fell into decline, neglect, and crime. East Russell, an inner city neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, was no different. It was ranked as one of the most dangerous and impoverished neighborhoods in the USA. In 1992, with no previous precedent, community leaders wanted "renewal" without population displacement. Currentl…
Two Tales of a City
In January 1988, Chrysler Corporation announced it would close its Kenosha assembly plant. Community leaders and residents feared economic catastrophe, A year later, despite the social costs of the shutdown, many of the same leaders were proclaiming Kenosha a boomtown. This paper examines the uneven development in Kenosha and explores the ideological assumptions behind current initiatives as well as the social costs. Public policies of other comm…
The Promise and Perils of Applied Sociology
Using data collected from sixty-five nonacademic employers, who either advertised in the ASA Employment Bulletin between January 1979 and January 1981 or who registered with the employment service at the ASA annual meetings in 1979 or 1980, we examine what nonacademic employers are looking for when they recruit sociologists, how they recruit such employees, what tasks employers assign sociologists, and what they perceive to be the major shortcomi…
Education, Jobs, and Inequality
This study examines two competing interpretations of the relation between formal education and the occupational structure, and the dynamics of social stratification in the United States. The techno-democratic model points to the rising requirements of technical skill for jobs and the pursuit of greater economic equality to explain the expansion of formal education. The class conflict model maintains that formal education has expanded in order to …
Reverse Discrimination
Urban Decline or Disinvestment
The insurance redlining debate poses challenging policy issues for public officials and theoretical concerns for urban sociologists. Using disclosure laws recently enacted in a few states, researchers can now begin examining the underwriting practices of insurers by neighborhoods in selected cities. In this initial exploratory study, we review the controversy and some pertinent general conditions in the property casualty insurance industry. Then …
Housing in America
Education and Jobs
Insurance Redlining in Minority Communities
The Politics of Human Rights
Oversupply or Underutilization? The Sociology Job Market in the 1980's
This paper examines the recent job crunch in sociology. From a historical perspective the current glut of Ph.D.'s is seen not as a temporary aberration in an otherwise healthy economic system, but rather as a recurring phenomenon with the conditions that foster the oversupply of Ph.D.'s likely to continue well into the future. We show how most proposed solutions to the unemployment and underemployment problems faced by sociologists are limited by…
The Promise and Perils of Applied Sociology
Using data collected from sixty-five nonacademic employers, who either advertised in the ASA Employment Bulletin between January 1979 and January 1981 or who registered with the employment service at the ASA annual meetings in 1979 or 1980, we examine what nonacademic employers are looking for when they recruit sociologists, how they recruit such employees, what tasks employers assign sociologists, and what they perceive to be the major shortcomi…
Pastoral on the U.S. Economy
Inequality in Metropolitan Industrial Revenue Bond Programs
Industrial revenue bonds (IRBs) have become an increasingly popular, though expensive and controversial, tool of economic development at the state and local levels. That controversy has focused on the economic impact of IRBs: Whether or not they meet the intended goals of creating jobs and stabilizing the tax base of local communities, and whether the benefits are worth the costs. Though IRBs are often justified, at least in part, as a particular…
Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics
Insurance Redlining and the Transformation of an Urban Metropolis
Financial institutions play a critical role in determining the viability of urban communities. As is the case with the geographic distribution of mortgage and business loans, insurance redlining constitutes a major force in fueling the uneven development of metropolitan areas. This article examines the racial effects of insurance underwriting activity in a large midwestern metropolitan area. In analyzing the distribution of homeowners insurance p…
Neighborhood Racial Composition and Mortgage Lending
Racially discriminatory mortgage lending patterns have been documented in several cities, despite the fact that such practices are illegal under the Federal Fair Housing Act and other federal and state laws. This study finds that in Milwaukee, as in several other metropolitan areas, racial composition of neighborhood is negatively associated with mortgage lending activity by depository institutions even after the effects of income, condition of h…
The challenge of training in applied sociology
Challenging Chicago's growth machine
Chicago
Despite local folklore, Chicago is not always a city that works. No longer the Hog Butcher for the World, the Windy City has, in recent decades, pursued economic growth at all costs - to the detriment of many of its citizens. This book describes the social, economic, and political costs of the growth ideology and examines the populist response that promises an alternative Chicago. Tracing the city's uneven economic development since World War II,…
Insurance Redlining and the Process of Discrimination
Insurance redlining and the racially discriminatory consequences of the sale of property insurance have been documented in several cities throughout the United States. In this study teams of “testers”—comparably qualified insurance consumers who differed only in the racial composition of the neighborhood of the homes they sought to insure—contacted three Milwaukee area insurance companies regarding the possibility of purchasing insurance for thei…
Twenty Years after the Kerner Report
Urban Reform and Its Consequences
Detroit
Economic Restructuring, Urban Development, and Race
The Politics of Urban Restructuring
Economic Restructuring, Urban Development, and Race
Chicago
Political science (60 obras) · Sociology (54 obras) · Economics (40 obras) · Law (38 obras) · Business (34 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (34 obras) · Geography (25 obras) · Law (25 obras) · Gender Studies (19 obras) · Housing Market and Economics (19 obras)