The Politics of Urban Renewal

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
P. J. Madgwick
Keyword(s):  
Title I ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
High Income ◽  
American Family ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Slum Dwellers

The Housing Act of 1949 established in Title I the goal of ‘a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family’. To achieve this goal the Federal Government was to support, by grants and by its legal powers to acquire land, a massive programme of public housing: ‘…it was the first and, until the Act of 1968, the only public housing measure that authorized action that bore some reasonable relation to need’. Nevertheless, the targets set by the 1949 Act for 1954 have still not been reached. Subsequent legislation shifted the emphasis of the programme from public housing to broader schemes of urban renewal, including non-residential development and middle- and high-income housing. The most serious aspect of this neglect of the needs of the poor has been the inadequate management of relocation for those displaced by renewal. For many slum-dwellers in the 1950s ‘urban renewal’ came to mean ‘Negro removal’.

Preference Gaps and Inequality in Representation

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 335-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gilens
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
High Income ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Wide Range

In a recent article inPS, Soroka and Wlezien (2008) argue that the policy preferences of low- and high-income Americans rarely differ, and therefore that “regardless of whose preferences policymakers follow … policy will end up in essentially the same place” (325). In this article, I analyze a much larger and more diverse set of policies than those examined by Soroka and Wlezien and show that income-based preference gaps are much larger and more widespread than their data suggest. In terms of federal government policy, the affluent are far better represented than the poor; the findings in this paper indicate that this representational inequality has substantial repercussions across a wide range of policy issues.

scholarly journals From Pathways to Portals: Getting to the Root of a Public Housing Community

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-96
Author(s):  
Nicola Mann
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Chicago Housing Authority ◽  
Late Stages ◽  
Mixed Income

The Chicago Housing Authority is currently in the late stages of a controversial ten-year urban renewal initiative that will see the city’s public housing projects replaced with mixed-income accommodations. Ordered to pack up and leave not only their homes but also lifelong friends and support networks, many project residents have, quite literally, had their roots yanked from beneath their feet. In this essay I employ the iconographic uses of natural imagery present in Kerry James Marshall’s Garden Project paintings (1993-1994) and Daniel Roth’s installation Cabrini Green Forest (2004) to, first, explore the “rooted” attachment of public housing dwellers to their living environment and, second, to consider the desire of many residents to safeguard community landmarks against the threat of demolition.

scholarly journals Vertical position can affect categorization of the rich and the poor in Chinese culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 183449092110257
Author(s):  
Qiong Li ◽  
Chen Deng ◽  
Bin Zuo ◽  
Xiaobin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Social Categorization ◽  
High Income ◽  
Vertical Position ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich

This study explored whether vertical position affects social categorization of the rich and the poor. Experiment 1 used high- and low-income occupations as stimuli, and found participants categorized high-income occupations faster when they were presented in the top vertical position compared to the bottom vertical position. In Experiment 2, participants responded using either the “up” or “down” key to categorize high- and low-income occupations, and responded faster to high-income occupations with the “up” key and low-income occupations with the “down” key. In Experiment 3, names identified as belonging to either rich or poor individuals were presented at the top or bottom of a screen, and the results were the same as in Experiments 1 and 2. These findings suggest that social categorization based on wealth involved perceptual simulations of vertical position, and that vertical position affects the social categorization of the rich and the poor.

The Geographic Spread of a Large Devaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 562-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Cravino ◽  
Andrei A. Levchenko
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
High Income ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Geographic Spread ◽  
Mexican Peso ◽  
Low Income Households

Cravino and Levchenko (2017) establish that the 1994 Mexican peso devaluation raised the prices of consumption baskets of low-income households substantially more than the prices of the consumption baskets of high-income households. In this paper, we explore this result further by focusing on the regional variation in how much prices of consumption baskets changed following the devaluation. Our main finding is that the devaluation was anti-poor in all regions, but there is substantial regional dispersion in the relative inflation faced by the poor.

scholarly journals ADVANTAGES OF QUARTER BUILDING IN THE FORMATION OF A COMFORTABLE LIVING ENVIRONMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
Liudmila A. VOLKOVA ◽  
Tatyana V. LITVYAK
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Residential Areas

The article presents a comparative analysis of the main characteristics of planning elements “quarter” and “microdistrict”, identifies their significant differences; provides an analysis of the development of approaches to the construction of residential areas in Russia in terms of creating a comfortable urban environment for human life; reveals the advantages of modern quarter as a planning element of residential development.

scholarly journals The Public Perception of People's Housing Program (PPR) for Slum Settlement Handling in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Yurnal Yurnal ◽  
Anis Shafika Binti Saiful Adli
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Housing Programs

The purpose of this study was to describe public perceptions of people’s housing programs for handling slums in Malaysia. Malaysia has begun organizing and fostering communities that have lived in slums since 1998 in the 'slum-free Malaysia vision 2005' program, and today Malaysia can be said to have successfully resolved slums, through public housing programs. The type of research used is this research is descriptive qualitative, using accidental sampling as sampling technique. Data collection methods used are interview and documentation methods, with research instruments in the form of interview guidelines. The results showed that the community strongly agreed with the existence of The People’s Housing Program (PPR), especially for the lower middle class and poor people in Malaysia. This program is able to realize the dream of the poor to be able to have a place to live that is suitable for living with family. Furthermore, the program itself is acknowledged by the community as being able to deal with slum settlements in Malaysia, and the poor who are biased in occupying slum areas voluntarily move to the houses provided by this PPR. So, people's perception of the Public Housing Program is very supportive especially to deal with slums in Malaysia.

The COVID-19 crisis and counter-cyclical policies in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-197
Author(s):  
Luiz Fernando de Paula
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Slow Recovery ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
State Action ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Second Wave

This paper examines the Brazilian economy during the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic policies implemented in 2020 to address the economic and social crisis. Using primary and secondary sources, the article differs in its analysis from other heterodox approaches according to which state action in response to the pandemic crisis in Brazil was weak and inconsistent. It is argued that counter-cyclical actions, especially those relating to emergency aid, have had a strong counter-cyclical effect on the economy and on reducing poverty and social inequality, even though there was no strategy previously coordinated by the federal government. The article concludes that the poor outlook for the Brazilian economy relates to both the resumption of orthodox policies and the unleashing of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, both contributing to a slow recovery of the Brazilian economy.

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