Public Housing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J W Pardee, J Wright (0000-0002-2020-9851), J D Wright (0000-0001-6004-6949) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp118 |
| OpenAlex | W4236030845 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Public housing policy in the United States emerged in the 1930s out of economic necessity rather than to redress a collective housing need. In response to ideological, economic, sociopolitical, and demographic forces that emerged during the Great Depression and continue into the present, public housing now functions as a system of economic reinvestment, contemporary gentrification, increasingly formalized privatization, and on occasion, affordable housing. Some of these forces and their associated controversies include: ideological differences regarding who should provide housing for needy citizens – whether it should be government or the private business sector; discriminatory practices such as redlining and blockbusting among real estate, mortgage, and banking interests whose actions created concentrations of poor, segregated, African‐American ghettos; demographic changes and inequities supported by the suburbanization of America; the unintentional effects of housing policies intended to help the poor but which functioned as disincentives for transitioning out of social assistance programs, including welfare and public housing itself; and an increasingly conservative fiscal and political climate, which has contributed to systematic, chronic defunding of public housing initiatives, depletion of the public housing stock, and deterioration of existing units
Affordable housing · Business · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Gentrification · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Public housing · Redress · Stock (firearms · Suburbanization · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
American apartheid
Transforming Government-Built Housing
Patterns of Section 8 Relocation in the Hope vi Program
Does Inner City Public Housing Exacerbate the Employment Problems of Its Tenants
Factors Related to Self-Sufficiency in a Distressed Public Housing Community
Housing investment and social housing
Middle-income Housing Programmes in American Cities
Polarisation, Public Housing and Racial Minorities in US Cities
Recent US Urban Change and Policy Initiatives
The end of public housing as we know it
Welfare reform and child poverty
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |