UbicaciÃ³n de franquicias y grandes cadenas comerciales despuÃ©s de la gran recesiÃ³n. El caso de la ciudad de Zaragoza / Location of franchises and large retail chains following the Great Recession. The case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain)

California is known for home values that eclipse U.S. housing prices. To increase housing inventory, California has implemented a regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) to transmit shares of housing growth to cities. However, no study has established RHNA’s efficacy. After examining the 4th RHNA cycle (i.e., 2006–2014) for 185 Los Angeles region cities, this study determined that RHNA directed housing growth to the city of Los Angeles and the region’s outlying cities as opposed to increasing density in the central and coastal cities. Second, RHNA directed 62% of housing growth to the region’s unaffordable cities. Third, the sample suffered a 34% shortfall in housing growth due to the Great Recession but garnered an average achievement of approximately 93% due to RHNA’s transmission of minimal housing growth shares. Lastly, RHNA maintained statistically significant associations with increased housing inventory, housing affordability, and housing growth rates, indicating that RHNA may influence housing development.

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Combustible Hopes on the National Stage

10.1093/oso/9780199348589.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Judith Hamera

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Great Recession ◽

Work Ethic ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Recovery ◽

The Great Recession ◽

History Of ◽

The City

This chapter argues for Detroit as an image and an actual place that spatializes and racializes the affective fallout of deindustrialization using three plays whose 2013 New York runs coincided with both the city’s impending bankruptcy and the United States’ anemic recovery from the Great Recession: Detroit by Lisa D’Amour, Detroit’67 by Dominique Morisseau, and Motown the Musical by Berry Gordy. Each play uses Detroit to explore the interpersonal consequences of opportunities and crises in racialized capitalism. Each offers audiences intimate visions of the Fordist bargain in its seeming heyday, particularly compelling in a period of lackluster economic recovery. In this chapter I introduce the formulations “re-siting” and “re-citing” to analyze the ways elements of Detroit’s incendiary history of interracial confrontations are redeployed to support images of a capitalist work ethic transcending or succumbing to racist violence, and to link the city to a seemingly race-neutral contemporary precarity.

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Metropolitan Chicago’s Geography of Inequality

10.5406/illinois/9780252040597.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Costas Spirou ◽

Larry Bennett

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

Central City ◽

Physical Development ◽

Local Communities ◽

Neighborhood Structure ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Foreclosure Crisis ◽

Communities Of Color ◽

The City ◽

Municipal Development

The contemporary Chicago region is a space of striking racial and social class segregation. Even as the City of Chicago’s population has stabilized over recent decades, metropolitan Chicago has expanded geographically and in terms of population. At present, there is a striking pattern of exurban municipal development aimed at capturing prosperous residents and buttressing local tax bases. Nor has Chicago’s physical development occurred independent of broader trends in the economy and public policy. The City of Chicago’s neighborhood structure has been profoundly affected by the demolition and mixed-income redevelopment of former public housing neighborhoods, central city gentrification, and following the Great Recession of 2008, the foreclosure crisis that particularly struck local communities of color. Contemporary Chicago’s geography of inequality is thus a palimpsest of recently generated neoliberal processes overlaying an older geography forged by industrial era urbanization and suburbanization.

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