Collateral Afterlives
Tracing Legacies of Predatory Dispossession within the Property Registry
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 19219682 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Rea Zaimi (0000-0002-0284-3744, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2026 |
| Data de publicação | 2026-05-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.70095 |
| OpenAlex | W7160305710 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 29 |
Between 2014 and 2020, Chicago's Large Lots program sold hundreds of city‐owned lots for one dollar to property owners across the city's South and West Sides. While planners invoked histories of racialized dispossession to legitimize this new land market, they restricted participation to property owners, thereby naturalizing the configurations of power and capital produced by those histories while enabling their beneficiaries to acquire discounted land for speculation. Through an analysis of the property records of the land sold to investors and the properties that qualified investors for it, I trace a throughline from the predatory dispossession orchestrated by subprime lending in the early 2000s to contemporary economies of speculation on the South and West Sides of Chicago. Situating the flows of value and relations of ownership engendered by Large Lots squarely within the afterlives of subprime collateral, I challenge the historical closures that recast state‐sanctioned land speculation as resident empowerment. Against these closures, I consider the possibilities and limits of the property registry as an archive in which to trace the ties that bind layered histories of dispossession to contemporary geographies of speculation and as a site from which to reassert the political demands these histories make in the present
Capital (architecture) · Collateral · Liberian dollar · Personal property · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Real property · Speculation · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Race for Profit
Dispossessed Lives
The financialization of single-family rental housing
Racialized geographies of housing financialization
Capitalizing on the Urban Fiscal Crisis
Precarious Territory
Hauntings of Absence and Erasure
Colonial Lives of Property
The Measure of Land
Uncovering racialized geographies
Instrumental exploitation
The reemergence of land contracts in Chicago
Collateral Damage
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment
How Private Equity Landlords Prey on Working-Class Communities of Color
Title by Registration
Horizontal Holdings
From historical chains to derivative futures
Old Wine in Private Equity Bottles? The Resurgence of Contract-for-Deed Home Sales in US Urban Neighborhoods
Disrupting Displacements
"Rethinking "Disinvestment
The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets
Racial capitalism, coloniality and the financialization of Caribbean remittances
Finance and Foreclosure in the Colonial Present
Cartographies of Race and Class
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt
Investing in Distress
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| Altamente citado | Não |