You Could Have Did Us Better Than This

Reparative Housing Policies and the Struggle to Right Harms to Black Communities

Bibliographic Data

ID6076753
AuthorsAmie Thurber (0000-0003-0753-5895, Portland State University), Lisa K Bates (0000-0002-3887-8754, Portland State University), Susan Halverson (Portland State University), Susan E Halverson (Portland State University), Keisha Muia (Portland State University)
Year2024
Volume32
Issue4
Pages516-535
Publication date2024-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1070-5422 • E-ISSN: 1543-3706
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10705422.2024.2431527
OpenAlexW4404601600
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

This paper contributes to the burgeoning literature related to reparative planning, with an emphasis on housing policy. After exploring the state of theorizing related to reparative planning, this paper describes its three central dimensions: public recognition, material redistribution, and social/spatial transformation. The authors use these dimensions to evaluate a housing policy designed to repair harms to Black residents in Portland, Oregon. This in-depth analysis draws on survey, interview, and focus group data to explore the degree to which residents’ experiences of the policy reflect these three dimensions. The paper concludes with implications for other municipalities considering reparative housing policies, namely the need to explicitly name the harm(s) the policy is designed to repair, for robust accountability measures to guide policy implementation and for holistic community development strategies that attend to multiple dimensions of racial reparation. Keywords: Reparations; neighborhoods; preference policies; planning; community development

Affordable housing · Business · Community organizing · Economic growth · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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