Susan Saegert
Biographic Data
| ID | 139470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Saegert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Saegert |
| SIGNATURE | SAEGERT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4004-8271 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 361 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Stressed out in the housing market
Interrupting Inequality Through Community Land Trusts
Relying on market-based housing policies has been inadequate to meet the need for affordable and sustainable housing and has heightened disparities in the housing system, especially along lines of race and gender. Community land trusts (CLTs) promise more equitable ways of providing stable, secure, and affordable housing for those marginalized in market-based housing. Yet there has been limited research comparing CLT housing with mainstream tenur…
Ethical action in the age of austerity
As social housing diminishes in the U.S., community land trusts have tried to adapt to the age of austerity, growing in numbers and expanding their terrain. We argue their continued success and growth greatly depends on enacting—to borrow from Gibson-Graham et al. (2019 Gibson-Graham, J.K., Cameron, J., Healy, S. & McNeill, J. (2019) Roepke lecture in economic geography—economic geography, manufacturing, and ethical action in the anthropocene, Ec…
Community land trusts
Housing affordability – a long-standing issue for low-income households – is crucial for the flourishing of both households and communities. When housing is unaffordable, households struggle to attain and maintain housing, which negatively effects household well-being. Since the foreclosure crisis, community land trusts (CLTs) have emerged as a viable housing policy. Relying on quantitative and qualitative data collected by a Minneapolis-based CL…
Victories from Insurgency
This article considers how insurgent campaigns for housing the poor in New York City and Chicago succeeded in engaging the local state, non‐profits and financial institutions in the creation of community land trusts. These campaigns had long arcs in which victories and losses built from each other, neither as permanent as they initially seemed. The campaigns moved iteratively between spaces of “invited citizenship” (courtrooms, planning committee…
Opening up Housing Theory
My discussion of the respective Focus articles by David Clapham (This issue) and Hannu Ruonavaara (This issue) is situated within philosophical pragmatism, especially as described by William James
Constructive feminism
Constructive feminism: Women’s spaces and women’s rights in the American city, by Daphne Spain." Journal of Urban Affairs, 40(4), pp. 599–600
Longing for a Better American Dream
Objective We investigated how households with histories of mortgage default, including foreclosure, view traditional homeownership and how shared equity homeownership (SEH), an alternative housing tenure, would be evaluated. Method Focus groups and individual interviews with households who had contacted foreclosure counseling organizations were analyzed for themes relating to perceptions of homeownership and renting. After explaining the SEH conc…
The People, Place, and Space Reader
Shared Equity Homeownership
Shared equity homeownership (SEH) is a form of resale-restricted, owner-occupied housing for lower income households that remains affordable in perpetuity. This study explores the evaluations of and reception to SEH relative to existing tenure options by potential beneficiaries of a SEH program in Nashville, TN. Fourteen focus groups with 93 participants were conducted among lower income renters, prospective homebuyers, and delinquent homeowners.…
Toward a research agenda at the intersections of housing and health
We would like to thank Terry Hartig for contributing his editorial vision and skill to this focus issue of Housing, Theory and Society. After hearing a much earlier presentation of this work at the
Housing and Health
This study adds to the literature linking housing and health by illustrating how poor health can increase the risk of foreclosure, and how the threat of foreclosure can negatively affect mental health. Our findings support the social ecological model of health and housing disparities and point to health care, employment, and social welfare policies as fundamental social causes that place populations at risk for foreclosure and illness. Medical de…
Mortgage Foreclosure and Health Disparities
Deflating the Dream
This article explores the contributions of neoliberal practice to the expansion of homeownership and the foreclosure crisis to illuminate the contradictions between the rhetorical goals of homeownership and the actual experiences of new homeowners. In doing so we explore the theories and practices that homeowners deploy to try to survive and keep their lives together. First, we review the aspects of housing policy in neoliberal regimes that led m…
Sociodemographic Variations in Self‐Reported Racism in a Community Sample of Blacks and Latino(a)s
This study investigated dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES) and self‐reported racism among a convenience sample of 418 U.S.‐born, Black and Latino(a) urban‐dwelling adults. Predictors included indexes of individual and neighborhood SES. Self‐reported racism was assessed with the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire–Community Version. Individuals at all levels of SES report racism, but the type of exposure varies by SES. Lower levels…
Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods
While community building and organizing initiatives aimed at improving marginalized communities have proliferated in recent decades, controversies have arisen as to their efficacy. A divide has emerged between community builders, who emphasize bonding and bridging social capital, and community organizers who work with disenfranchised communities to make demands on the existing power structure though confrontational actions. Drawing on four case s…
Community-Based Interdisciplinary Research
This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted. This is followed by a brief description of the miss…
Community Psychology at the Crossroads
Effective engagement in interdisciplinary work is critical if community psychology is to achieve its promise as a field of ecological inquiry and social action. The purpose of this paper and special issue is to help make the benefits of interdisciplinary community research clearer and to identify and begin to address its challenges. Although some areas of psychology (e.g., biological, cognitive and health) have made substantial interdisciplinary …
Crime, Social Capital, and Community Participation
Social disorganization at the neighborhood and community levels has been consistently linked to various forms of criminal activity. However, a very much smaller body of literature addresses the effects of crime on community organizations. In some studies, crime appears to energize communities while in others, crime leads to withdrawal from community life. Using department of health crime victimization data and interviews with 2,985 low‐income inn…
Healthy Housing
We sought to characterize and to evaluate the success of current public health interventions related to housing. Two reviewers contentanalyzed 72 articles selected from 12 electronic databases of US interventions from 1990 to 2001. Ninety-two percent of the interventions addressed a single condition, most often lead poisoning, injury, or asthma. Fifty-seven percent targeted children, and 13% targeted seniors. The most common intervention strategi…
Poverty, Housing Niches, and Health in the United States
Drawing on psychological, health, and social science literature, a housing niche model is developed that focuses on (a) housing markets and other societal processes that constrain residential choice, (b) effects of residential environments on health and access to human and social capital, and (c) family dynamic effects on health and the intergenerational consequences of particular housing niches for future health and housing choices. The model re…
Social Capital and Poor Communities (Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building)
Paths to community empowerment
This study examines how low‐income minority communities build on their strengths to improve material conditions and how these actions lead to further empowerment at the individual and group level, and increase engagement with civic life. Based on earlier qualitative research, low‐income limited equity housing co‐ops were chosen as research. Using quantitative questionnaire data, a path model was tested in which variables were organized into four …
From Abandonment to Hope
Unlikely leaders, extreme circumstances
Deflating the Dream
This article explores the contributions of neoliberal practice to the expansion of homeownership and the foreclosure crisis to illuminate the contradictions between the rhetorical goals of homeownership and the actual experiences of new homeowners. In doing so we explore the theories and practices that homeowners deploy to try to survive and keep their lives together. First, we review the aspects of housing policy in neoliberal regimes that led m…
Housing and Health
This study adds to the literature linking housing and health by illustrating how poor health can increase the risk of foreclosure, and how the threat of foreclosure can negatively affect mental health. Our findings support the social ecological model of health and housing disparities and point to health care, employment, and social welfare policies as fundamental social causes that place populations at risk for foreclosure and illness. Medical de…
Mortgage Foreclosure and Health Disparities
Masculine Cities and Feminine Suburbs
Crime, Social Capital, and Community Participation
Social disorganization at the neighborhood and community levels has been consistently linked to various forms of criminal activity. However, a very much smaller body of literature addresses the effects of crime on community organizations. In some studies, crime appears to energize communities while in others, crime leads to withdrawal from community life. Using department of health crime victimization data and interviews with 2,985 low‐income inn…
Exposure, context, and interpersonal attraction
Two experiments were performed to determine the effects of and positive and negative contexts on interpersonal attraction. In both experiments, was manipulated by varying the number of encounters among female subjects; context was varied by having subjects taste either pleasant or noxious solutions during the encounters. In both experiments, attraction varied as a direct function of number of encounters, in negative as well as positive contexts. …
Sociodemographic Variations in Self‐Reported Racism in a Community Sample of Blacks and Latino(a)s
This study investigated dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES) and self‐reported racism among a convenience sample of 418 U.S.‐born, Black and Latino(a) urban‐dwelling adults. Predictors included indexes of individual and neighborhood SES. Self‐reported racism was assessed with the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire–Community Version. Individuals at all levels of SES report racism, but the type of exposure varies by SES. Lower levels…
Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods
While community building and organizing initiatives aimed at improving marginalized communities have proliferated in recent decades, controversies have arisen as to their efficacy. A divide has emerged between community builders, who emphasize bonding and bridging social capital, and community organizers who work with disenfranchised communities to make demands on the existing power structure though confrontational actions. Drawing on four case s…
Poverty, Housing Niches, and Health in the United States
Drawing on psychological, health, and social science literature, a housing niche model is developed that focuses on (a) housing markets and other societal processes that constrain residential choice, (b) effects of residential environments on health and access to human and social capital, and (c) family dynamic effects on health and the intergenerational consequences of particular housing niches for future health and housing choices. The model re…
Residential density, social overload, and social withdrawal
Paths to community empowerment
This study examines how low‐income minority communities build on their strengths to improve material conditions and how these actions lead to further empowerment at the individual and group level, and increase engagement with civic life. Based on earlier qualitative research, low‐income limited equity housing co‐ops were chosen as research. Using quantitative questionnaire data, a path model was tested in which variables were organized into four …
Unlikely leaders, extreme circumstances
Community-Based Interdisciplinary Research
This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted. This is followed by a brief description of the miss…
Crowding and cognitive control
Effects of initial level of response competition and frequency of exposure on liking and exploratory behavior
Community land trusts
Housing affordability – a long-standing issue for low-income households – is crucial for the flourishing of both households and communities. When housing is unaffordable, households struggle to attain and maintain housing, which negatively effects household well-being. Since the foreclosure crisis, community land trusts (CLTs) have emerged as a viable housing policy. Relying on quantitative and qualitative data collected by a Minneapolis-based CL…
Shared Equity Homeownership
Shared equity homeownership (SEH) is a form of resale-restricted, owner-occupied housing for lower income households that remains affordable in perpetuity. This study explores the evaluations of and reception to SEH relative to existing tenure options by potential beneficiaries of a SEH program in Nashville, TN. Fourteen focus groups with 93 participants were conducted among lower income renters, prospective homebuyers, and delinquent homeowners.…
Community Psychology at the Crossroads
Effective engagement in interdisciplinary work is critical if community psychology is to achieve its promise as a field of ecological inquiry and social action. The purpose of this paper and special issue is to help make the benefits of interdisciplinary community research clearer and to identify and begin to address its challenges. Although some areas of psychology (e.g., biological, cognitive and health) have made substantial interdisciplinary …
Victories from Insurgency
This article considers how insurgent campaigns for housing the poor in New York City and Chicago succeeded in engaging the local state, non‐profits and financial institutions in the creation of community land trusts. These campaigns had long arcs in which victories and losses built from each other, neither as permanent as they initially seemed. The campaigns moved iteratively between spaces of “invited citizenship” (courtrooms, planning committee…
Longing for a Better American Dream
Objective We investigated how households with histories of mortgage default, including foreclosure, view traditional homeownership and how shared equity homeownership (SEH), an alternative housing tenure, would be evaluated. Method Focus groups and individual interviews with households who had contacted foreclosure counseling organizations were analyzed for themes relating to perceptions of homeownership and renting. After explaining the SEH conc…
Toward a research agenda at the intersections of housing and health
We would like to thank Terry Hartig for contributing his editorial vision and skill to this focus issue of Housing, Theory and Society. After hearing a much earlier presentation of this work at the
Ethical action in the age of austerity
As social housing diminishes in the U.S., community land trusts have tried to adapt to the age of austerity, growing in numbers and expanding their terrain. We argue their continued success and growth greatly depends on enacting—to borrow from Gibson-Graham et al. (2019 Gibson-Graham, J.K., Cameron, J., Healy, S. & McNeill, J. (2019) Roepke lecture in economic geography—economic geography, manufacturing, and ethical action in the anthropocene, Ec…
Effects of initial level of response competition and frequency of exposure on liking and exploratory behavior
Exposure, context, and interpersonal attraction
Two experiments were performed to determine the effects of and positive and negative contexts on interpersonal attraction. In both experiments, was manipulated by varying the number of encounters among female subjects; context was varied by having subjects taste either pleasant or noxious solutions during the encounters. In both experiments, attraction varied as a direct function of number of encounters, in negative as well as positive contexts. …
Crowding and cognitive control
Residential density, social overload, and social withdrawal
Masculine Cities and Feminine Suburbs
Unlikely leaders, extreme circumstances
From Abandonment to Hope
Paths to community empowerment
This study examines how low‐income minority communities build on their strengths to improve material conditions and how these actions lead to further empowerment at the individual and group level, and increase engagement with civic life. Based on earlier qualitative research, low‐income limited equity housing co‐ops were chosen as research. Using quantitative questionnaire data, a path model was tested in which variables were organized into four …
Social Capital and Poor Communities (Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building)
Healthy Housing
We sought to characterize and to evaluate the success of current public health interventions related to housing. Two reviewers contentanalyzed 72 articles selected from 12 electronic databases of US interventions from 1990 to 2001. Ninety-two percent of the interventions addressed a single condition, most often lead poisoning, injury, or asthma. Fifty-seven percent targeted children, and 13% targeted seniors. The most common intervention strategi…
Poverty, Housing Niches, and Health in the United States
Drawing on psychological, health, and social science literature, a housing niche model is developed that focuses on (a) housing markets and other societal processes that constrain residential choice, (b) effects of residential environments on health and access to human and social capital, and (c) family dynamic effects on health and the intergenerational consequences of particular housing niches for future health and housing choices. The model re…
Crime, Social Capital, and Community Participation
Social disorganization at the neighborhood and community levels has been consistently linked to various forms of criminal activity. However, a very much smaller body of literature addresses the effects of crime on community organizations. In some studies, crime appears to energize communities while in others, crime leads to withdrawal from community life. Using department of health crime victimization data and interviews with 2,985 low‐income inn…
Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods
While community building and organizing initiatives aimed at improving marginalized communities have proliferated in recent decades, controversies have arisen as to their efficacy. A divide has emerged between community builders, who emphasize bonding and bridging social capital, and community organizers who work with disenfranchised communities to make demands on the existing power structure though confrontational actions. Drawing on four case s…
Community-Based Interdisciplinary Research
This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted. This is followed by a brief description of the miss…
Community Psychology at the Crossroads
Effective engagement in interdisciplinary work is critical if community psychology is to achieve its promise as a field of ecological inquiry and social action. The purpose of this paper and special issue is to help make the benefits of interdisciplinary community research clearer and to identify and begin to address its challenges. Although some areas of psychology (e.g., biological, cognitive and health) have made substantial interdisciplinary …
Deflating the Dream
This article explores the contributions of neoliberal practice to the expansion of homeownership and the foreclosure crisis to illuminate the contradictions between the rhetorical goals of homeownership and the actual experiences of new homeowners. In doing so we explore the theories and practices that homeowners deploy to try to survive and keep their lives together. First, we review the aspects of housing policy in neoliberal regimes that led m…
Sociodemographic Variations in Self‐Reported Racism in a Community Sample of Blacks and Latino(a)s
This study investigated dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES) and self‐reported racism among a convenience sample of 418 U.S.‐born, Black and Latino(a) urban‐dwelling adults. Predictors included indexes of individual and neighborhood SES. Self‐reported racism was assessed with the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire–Community Version. Individuals at all levels of SES report racism, but the type of exposure varies by SES. Lower levels…
Toward a research agenda at the intersections of housing and health
We would like to thank Terry Hartig for contributing his editorial vision and skill to this focus issue of Housing, Theory and Society. After hearing a much earlier presentation of this work at the
Housing and Health
This study adds to the literature linking housing and health by illustrating how poor health can increase the risk of foreclosure, and how the threat of foreclosure can negatively affect mental health. Our findings support the social ecological model of health and housing disparities and point to health care, employment, and social welfare policies as fundamental social causes that place populations at risk for foreclosure and illness. Medical de…
Mortgage Foreclosure and Health Disparities
Shared Equity Homeownership
Shared equity homeownership (SEH) is a form of resale-restricted, owner-occupied housing for lower income households that remains affordable in perpetuity. This study explores the evaluations of and reception to SEH relative to existing tenure options by potential beneficiaries of a SEH program in Nashville, TN. Fourteen focus groups with 93 participants were conducted among lower income renters, prospective homebuyers, and delinquent homeowners.…
The People, Place, and Space Reader
Longing for a Better American Dream
Objective We investigated how households with histories of mortgage default, including foreclosure, view traditional homeownership and how shared equity homeownership (SEH), an alternative housing tenure, would be evaluated. Method Focus groups and individual interviews with households who had contacted foreclosure counseling organizations were analyzed for themes relating to perceptions of homeownership and renting. After explaining the SEH conc…
Constructive feminism
Constructive feminism: Women’s spaces and women’s rights in the American city, by Daphne Spain." Journal of Urban Affairs, 40(4), pp. 599–600
Opening up Housing Theory
My discussion of the respective Focus articles by David Clapham (This issue) and Hannu Ruonavaara (This issue) is situated within philosophical pragmatism, especially as described by William James
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