Casper van Ewijk and Michiel van Leuvensteijn (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
Increasing labour market flexibility is at the top of the European agenda. A new and challenging view is that a lack of mobility in the labour market may arise from rigidities in the housing market. ...
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Increasing labour market flexibility is at the top of the European agenda. A new and challenging view is that a lack of mobility in the labour market may arise from rigidities in the housing market. Researches in this book have been inspired by the intriguing hypothesis that homeownership may be a hindrance to the smooth working connections of labour markets, as homeowners tend to be less willing to accept jobs outside their own region. At the individual level, homeownership limits the likelihood of becoming unemployed and increases the probability of finding a job once unemployed. The transaction costs inherent in the housing market and homeownership hamper job-to-job changes and increase unemployment at the country level. All of these insinuate reform in the housing market, aimed at lowering transaction costs and providing less generous subsidies for homeowners as effective steps for reducing unemployment and improving labour market flexibility.Less
Increasing labour market flexibility is at the top of the European agenda. A new and challenging view is that a lack of mobility in the labour market may arise from rigidities in the housing market. Researches in this book have been inspired by the intriguing hypothesis that homeownership may be a hindrance to the smooth working connections of labour markets, as homeowners tend to be less willing to accept jobs outside their own region. At the individual level, homeownership limits the likelihood of becoming unemployed and increases the probability of finding a job once unemployed. The transaction costs inherent in the housing market and homeownership hamper job-to-job changes and increase unemployment at the country level. All of these insinuate reform in the housing market, aimed at lowering transaction costs and providing less generous subsidies for homeowners as effective steps for reducing unemployment and improving labour market flexibility.
Joan C. Williams
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294962
- eISBN:
- 9780191598708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294964.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The charge of socialism is a conversation-stopper; republicanism offers a native American alternative. To justify his radical widening of the concept of property, Charles Reich, in “The New ...
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The charge of socialism is a conversation-stopper; republicanism offers a native American alternative. To justify his radical widening of the concept of property, Charles Reich, in “The New Property,” mixed the liberal language of privacy with language from the republican egalitarian strain. The mystique of homeownership carries on republican themes, such as the notion that property offers a stable stake in society, and the notion that owners make good citizens. The grip of domesticity is so profound that the only realistic strategy is to transform it from within, to turn arguments for why women should remain in the home into demands to employers and the government to spread the costs of childrearing instead of privatizing them onto the women and children who represent 77 percent of those in poverty. In a culture with few viable redistributive rhetorics, religion has tremendous potential for building cross-class and cross-race coalitions.Less
The charge of socialism is a conversation-stopper; republicanism offers a native American alternative. To justify his radical widening of the concept of property, Charles Reich, in “The New Property,” mixed the liberal language of privacy with language from the republican egalitarian strain. The mystique of homeownership carries on republican themes, such as the notion that property offers a stable stake in society, and the notion that owners make good citizens. The grip of domesticity is so profound that the only realistic strategy is to transform it from within, to turn arguments for why women should remain in the home into demands to employers and the government to spread the costs of childrearing instead of privatizing them onto the women and children who represent 77 percent of those in poverty. In a culture with few viable redistributive rhetorics, religion has tremendous potential for building cross-class and cross-race coalitions.
Rowland Atkinson and Sarah Blandy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781784995300
- eISBN:
- 9781526121035
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784995300.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Domestic Fortress offers a critical analysis of the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security. It considers the important connection between the private home, political life ...
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Domestic Fortress offers a critical analysis of the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security. It considers the important connection between the private home, political life and the economy that we term tessellated neoliberalism. The book considers the nucleus of the domestic home as part of a much larger archipelago frontline of homes and gated communities that appear as a new home front set against diverse sources of social anxiety. These range from questions of invasion (such as burglary or identity theft) to those of security (the home as a financial resource in retirement and as a place of refuge in an unpredictable world). A culture of fear has been responded to through increasingly emphatic retreats by homeowners into fortified dwellings, palatial houses, concealed bunker pads and gated developments. Many feature elaborate security measures; alarms, CCTV systems, motion-sensing lights and impregnable panic rooms. Domestic Fortresslocates the anxieties driving these responses to the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of homeownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate society today. Domestic Fortress draws on perspectives and research from criminology, urban studies and sociology to offer a sense of the private home as a site of wavering anxiety and security, exclusion and warmth, alongside dreams of retreat and autonomy that mesh closely with the defining principles of neoliberal governance.
Even as the home is acknowledged to play a vital role in sheltering us from the elements so it has now come to be a locus around which many anxieties are shut-out. The home allows us to lock out the daily hardships of life, but is also a site from which we witness a wide range of troubling phenomena: the insecurities of the workplace, plans for our future welfare, internationalized terror, geo-political warfare, ecological catastrophes, feelings of loss and uncertainty around identity, to say nothing of the daily risks of flood, fire and other disasters.
The home now plays a complex dual role that slips between offering us protection from these worries while also offering the nightmare of its own possible invasion, erosion or destruction. On top of these concerns entire industries have been built that sell a war against strangers, dirt and disaster. This of course includes the insurance industry itself, but also the use of technologies that both protect the home and make it effectively more impregnable to casual social contact as well as the proliferation of products devoted to domestic cleanliness. Domestic Fortress considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants and details the wide range of actions taken in the pursuit of total safety.Less
Domestic Fortress offers a critical analysis of the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security. It considers the important connection between the private home, political life and the economy that we term tessellated neoliberalism. The book considers the nucleus of the domestic home as part of a much larger archipelago frontline of homes and gated communities that appear as a new home front set against diverse sources of social anxiety. These range from questions of invasion (such as burglary or identity theft) to those of security (the home as a financial resource in retirement and as a place of refuge in an unpredictable world). A culture of fear has been responded to through increasingly emphatic retreats by homeowners into fortified dwellings, palatial houses, concealed bunker pads and gated developments. Many feature elaborate security measures; alarms, CCTV systems, motion-sensing lights and impregnable panic rooms. Domestic Fortresslocates the anxieties driving these responses to the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of homeownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate society today. Domestic Fortress draws on perspectives and research from criminology, urban studies and sociology to offer a sense of the private home as a site of wavering anxiety and security, exclusion and warmth, alongside dreams of retreat and autonomy that mesh closely with the defining principles of neoliberal governance.
Even as the home is acknowledged to play a vital role in sheltering us from the elements so it has now come to be a locus around which many anxieties are shut-out. The home allows us to lock out the daily hardships of life, but is also a site from which we witness a wide range of troubling phenomena: the insecurities of the workplace, plans for our future welfare, internationalized terror, geo-political warfare, ecological catastrophes, feelings of loss and uncertainty around identity, to say nothing of the daily risks of flood, fire and other disasters.
The home now plays a complex dual role that slips between offering us protection from these worries while also offering the nightmare of its own possible invasion, erosion or destruction. On top of these concerns entire industries have been built that sell a war against strangers, dirt and disaster. This of course includes the insurance industry itself, but also the use of technologies that both protect the home and make it effectively more impregnable to casual social contact as well as the proliferation of products devoted to domestic cleanliness. Domestic Fortress considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants and details the wide range of actions taken in the pursuit of total safety.
Jakob Roland Munch, Michael Rosholm, and Michael Svarer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
Job duration and wages are the central themes of this chapter as it aims to provide some theoretical justifications on the impact of homeownership on employment tenure and income brackets. Due to ...
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Job duration and wages are the central themes of this chapter as it aims to provide some theoretical justifications on the impact of homeownership on employment tenure and income brackets. Due to relatively lesser geographical mobility along with corresponding adjustments and expenses, workers who possess their own accommodation units stay longer in their occupation compared to those who just rent, this chapter concludes. With the help of empirical evidences from the Netherlands, the chapter is able to approximate the competing risks for the job duration model with considerable attention given to the new occupation transitions, and to estimate a criterion human capital wage equation so as to determine the impact of homeownership on remunerations. In addition, investigations should include the endogeneity of residential tenure to avoid misinterpretation of calculated parameters.Less
Job duration and wages are the central themes of this chapter as it aims to provide some theoretical justifications on the impact of homeownership on employment tenure and income brackets. Due to relatively lesser geographical mobility along with corresponding adjustments and expenses, workers who possess their own accommodation units stay longer in their occupation compared to those who just rent, this chapter concludes. With the help of empirical evidences from the Netherlands, the chapter is able to approximate the competing risks for the job duration model with considerable attention given to the new occupation transitions, and to estimate a criterion human capital wage equation so as to determine the impact of homeownership on remunerations. In addition, investigations should include the endogeneity of residential tenure to avoid misinterpretation of calculated parameters.
Casper van Ewijk and Michiel van Leuvensteijn
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
Although homeownership and social housing have positive sides, these are regarded as obstacles to labour market flexibility and full aggregate employment status. To establish empirical evidence, this ...
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Although homeownership and social housing have positive sides, these are regarded as obstacles to labour market flexibility and full aggregate employment status. To establish empirical evidence, this chapter explores the housing market organisations of European countries, specifically Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, France, United Kingdom, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Austria, and Spain. Other dimensions of the relationship between the housing sector and labour mobility, such as the issue of commuting, are not within the scope of this book. This chapter also gives some conclusions from gathered information — both statistical data and reviews of previous works.Less
Although homeownership and social housing have positive sides, these are regarded as obstacles to labour market flexibility and full aggregate employment status. To establish empirical evidence, this chapter explores the housing market organisations of European countries, specifically Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, France, United Kingdom, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Austria, and Spain. Other dimensions of the relationship between the housing sector and labour mobility, such as the issue of commuting, are not within the scope of this book. This chapter also gives some conclusions from gathered information — both statistical data and reviews of previous works.
Thomas J. Dohmen
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
This chapter seeks to develop a framework that can account for the relationships between urbanisation, housing tenure, and employment rates. Reasons and underlying processes related to the increase ...
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This chapter seeks to develop a framework that can account for the relationships between urbanisation, housing tenure, and employment rates. Reasons and underlying processes related to the increase in aggregate homeownership incidence with respect to unemployment are discussed, despite the fact that the labour market is not at all about homeowners. It is believed that mobility of workers vary according to their skill levels, competitiveness of accessible job offers, and ability to search for opportunities. With the consideration that housing market situations are indicative of the migration patterns and exploration behaviours, then the wage pressure component might be dependent on the environmental conditions of physical accommodation. Other factors that can explain the mobility phenomenon include shocks and transaction costs. Eventually, interferences in the board and/or lodging sector will affect the outcomes of the labour industry as well as the relevant policies.Less
This chapter seeks to develop a framework that can account for the relationships between urbanisation, housing tenure, and employment rates. Reasons and underlying processes related to the increase in aggregate homeownership incidence with respect to unemployment are discussed, despite the fact that the labour market is not at all about homeowners. It is believed that mobility of workers vary according to their skill levels, competitiveness of accessible job offers, and ability to search for opportunities. With the consideration that housing market situations are indicative of the migration patterns and exploration behaviours, then the wage pressure component might be dependent on the environmental conditions of physical accommodation. Other factors that can explain the mobility phenomenon include shocks and transaction costs. Eventually, interferences in the board and/or lodging sector will affect the outcomes of the labour industry as well as the relevant policies.
Andrew Oswald
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
Three nations are studied in this chapter. These particular nations were chosen because of the noticeable relationship between employment and homeownership observed — these are Spain, Switzerland, ...
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Three nations are studied in this chapter. These particular nations were chosen because of the noticeable relationship between employment and homeownership observed — these are Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. The chapter asserts that unemployment problems in European countries determine housing market conditions. For example a reduction in unemployment can be made possible by an increase in private renting, harmonious social networking, and a decrease in lodging tenure. When location change is relatively expensive, a high quantity of privately owned houses induces discrepancies between the workers' abilities and skills and the available careers. Bu when it is easier to source new occupations or move from one place to another without necessarily purchasing, building, or selling a new house, this situation allows individuals to become mobile and thus, this fosters labour market flexibility.Less
Three nations are studied in this chapter. These particular nations were chosen because of the noticeable relationship between employment and homeownership observed — these are Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. The chapter asserts that unemployment problems in European countries determine housing market conditions. For example a reduction in unemployment can be made possible by an increase in private renting, harmonious social networking, and a decrease in lodging tenure. When location change is relatively expensive, a high quantity of privately owned houses induces discrepancies between the workers' abilities and skills and the available careers. Bu when it is easier to source new occupations or move from one place to another without necessarily purchasing, building, or selling a new house, this situation allows individuals to become mobile and thus, this fosters labour market flexibility.
Thomas de Graaff, Michiel van Leuvensteijn, and Casper van Ewijk
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
European unemployment is the main focus of this chapter. The chapter looks at various transaction costs such as financial, psychological, social, cultural, religious, and ethnic transaction costs. ...
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European unemployment is the main focus of this chapter. The chapter looks at various transaction costs such as financial, psychological, social, cultural, religious, and ethnic transaction costs. This chapter describes the differences in residence mobility patterns and social renting institutions in several countries. The chapter asserts that even if social leasing and privately owned residences encourage housing transaction expenditures, only renting heightens a person's probability of becoming unemployed. Potential justifications would be related to the relative returns of investment as well as the disadvantages perceived by both parties — homeowners and social renters. It would be interesting to explore the effects of these spending habits on the individual outflow of unemployment.Less
European unemployment is the main focus of this chapter. The chapter looks at various transaction costs such as financial, psychological, social, cultural, religious, and ethnic transaction costs. This chapter describes the differences in residence mobility patterns and social renting institutions in several countries. The chapter asserts that even if social leasing and privately owned residences encourage housing transaction expenditures, only renting heightens a person's probability of becoming unemployed. Potential justifications would be related to the relative returns of investment as well as the disadvantages perceived by both parties — homeowners and social renters. It would be interesting to explore the effects of these spending habits on the individual outflow of unemployment.
Jakob Roland Munch, Michael Rosholm, and Michael Svarer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.003.0005
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
This chapter presents findings of research that infer that homeownership significantly lessens the ability to move from one location to another in order to seek for new jobs. In turn, the incidence ...
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This chapter presents findings of research that infer that homeownership significantly lessens the ability to move from one location to another in order to seek for new jobs. In turn, the incidence of finding employment by the local labour force is positively affected by the privately owned accommodation unit, although there are cases when such kind of ownership negatively influences mobility. These empirical evidences contradict the so-called Oswald hypothesis, which defied the indirect association between homeownership and duration of unemployment. When mobility increases, geographical discrepancies in labour supply and demand are more easily addressed, and thus, employment rates are also raised. These results are subject to further analysis with the inclusion of culture, religion, and ethnicity as factors that have implications on urbanisation and job mobility. Such arguments may only reflect spurious relationship instead of causal attribution.Less
This chapter presents findings of research that infer that homeownership significantly lessens the ability to move from one location to another in order to seek for new jobs. In turn, the incidence of finding employment by the local labour force is positively affected by the privately owned accommodation unit, although there are cases when such kind of ownership negatively influences mobility. These empirical evidences contradict the so-called Oswald hypothesis, which defied the indirect association between homeownership and duration of unemployment. When mobility increases, geographical discrepancies in labour supply and demand are more easily addressed, and thus, employment rates are also raised. These results are subject to further analysis with the inclusion of culture, religion, and ethnicity as factors that have implications on urbanisation and job mobility. Such arguments may only reflect spurious relationship instead of causal attribution.
Aico van Vuuren
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
Munch et al.'s model about the indirect relationship between homeownership and unemployment duration is the main focus of this chapter as it examines some data from the Netherlands. This data is from ...
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Munch et al.'s model about the indirect relationship between homeownership and unemployment duration is the main focus of this chapter as it examines some data from the Netherlands. This data is from the period 1989 to 2001, which marks a period of organisational restructuring and developments. It involves a group of randomly selected taxpayers age sixteen and above who receive income from any potential source. This chapter starts with the description of the chosen population's labour and housing market for the specified time frame, followed by analysing an empirical understanding of the statistical findings and counterfactual risk possibilities. Aside from similar conclusions with previous research (that is, spurious correlation between private ownership of accommodation and unemployment incidence), results vary according to the respondent's civil status, position in the family, gender, educational background, and inherited wealth.Less
Munch et al.'s model about the indirect relationship between homeownership and unemployment duration is the main focus of this chapter as it examines some data from the Netherlands. This data is from the period 1989 to 2001, which marks a period of organisational restructuring and developments. It involves a group of randomly selected taxpayers age sixteen and above who receive income from any potential source. This chapter starts with the description of the chosen population's labour and housing market for the specified time frame, followed by analysing an empirical understanding of the statistical findings and counterfactual risk possibilities. Aside from similar conclusions with previous research (that is, spurious correlation between private ownership of accommodation and unemployment incidence), results vary according to the respondent's civil status, position in the family, gender, educational background, and inherited wealth.
Harminder Battu, Ada Ma, and Euan Phimister
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543946
- eISBN:
- 9780191701320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543946.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
This chapter gives an evaluation of the influence of homeownership on an individual's employment and occupational mobility, specifically non-professional, skilled, and technical workers in the United ...
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This chapter gives an evaluation of the influence of homeownership on an individual's employment and occupational mobility, specifically non-professional, skilled, and technical workers in the United Kingdom. The chapter begin with an investigation of the implications of both housing tenure and public leasing relative to private renting with respect to the resurgence of public tenants and migration. The chapter then looks at the possible differential effects of residential status across various socio-economic groupings considering the issues of job dynamism and unemployment. Such researchers are anchored upon the notion that homeowners and public lodgers have a lower reserved income in domestic places compared to other locations, and are more likely to engage in local jobs rather than those in distant areas.Less
This chapter gives an evaluation of the influence of homeownership on an individual's employment and occupational mobility, specifically non-professional, skilled, and technical workers in the United Kingdom. The chapter begin with an investigation of the implications of both housing tenure and public leasing relative to private renting with respect to the resurgence of public tenants and migration. The chapter then looks at the possible differential effects of residential status across various socio-economic groupings considering the issues of job dynamism and unemployment. Such researchers are anchored upon the notion that homeowners and public lodgers have a lower reserved income in domestic places compared to other locations, and are more likely to engage in local jobs rather than those in distant areas.
Steven W. Bender
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814791257
- eISBN:
- 9780814739136
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814791257.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing surveys the terrain, culture, and history of Latino/as and housing. Employing a vital historical perspective, it traces its core theme of how ...
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Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing surveys the terrain, culture, and history of Latino/as and housing. Employing a vital historical perspective, it traces its core theme of how Latino/as once held expansive ranchland in the Southwest but are now primarily a landless population spread throughout the U.S. that clings to marginal property rights and precarious ownership through overcrowded urban rental units, transitory rural living arrangements, and, at best, home acquisitions financed by high-risk subprime mortgages. Land ownership and homeownership enable assimilation into the American dream and foster community contributions and participation. But the landscape of the Latino/a experience is marked by a long history of property loss and discriminatory exclusion, fostering the current dilemma in which critics rail at Latino/as for their transitory nature and supposed lack of allegiance and contribution to their local communities, yet structural, legal, and historical impediments keep Latino/as from the threshold of opportunity. Evolving as legal, business, and societal norms changed, an array of discrimination techniques accomplished the exclusion of Latino/as from the American dream. To establish sustained access to affordable housing for Latino/as will demand reform and commitment across many sectors to encompass law, land use zoning, mortgage lending, educational structures, and community initiatives. Above all, comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship is needed to stabilize Latino/a communities and help restore sustainable growth in national housing markets.Less
Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing surveys the terrain, culture, and history of Latino/as and housing. Employing a vital historical perspective, it traces its core theme of how Latino/as once held expansive ranchland in the Southwest but are now primarily a landless population spread throughout the U.S. that clings to marginal property rights and precarious ownership through overcrowded urban rental units, transitory rural living arrangements, and, at best, home acquisitions financed by high-risk subprime mortgages. Land ownership and homeownership enable assimilation into the American dream and foster community contributions and participation. But the landscape of the Latino/a experience is marked by a long history of property loss and discriminatory exclusion, fostering the current dilemma in which critics rail at Latino/as for their transitory nature and supposed lack of allegiance and contribution to their local communities, yet structural, legal, and historical impediments keep Latino/as from the threshold of opportunity. Evolving as legal, business, and societal norms changed, an array of discrimination techniques accomplished the exclusion of Latino/as from the American dream. To establish sustained access to affordable housing for Latino/as will demand reform and commitment across many sectors to encompass law, land use zoning, mortgage lending, educational structures, and community initiatives. Above all, comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship is needed to stabilize Latino/a communities and help restore sustainable growth in national housing markets.
Lee Anne Fennell
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300122442
- eISBN:
- 9780300155020
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300122442.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic Systems
This book grapples with a core modern reality—that the value and meaning of a home extends beyond its property lines to schools, shops, parks, services, neighbors, neighborhood aesthetics, and market ...
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This book grapples with a core modern reality—that the value and meaning of a home extends beyond its property lines to schools, shops, parks, services, neighbors, neighborhood aesthetics, and market conditions. The resulting tension between the homeowner's desire for personal autonomy at home and the impulse to control everything that could affect the home's value fuels continual conflict among neighbors and communities. The home's unbounded nature implicates nearly every facet of residential life, from the financial vulnerability of homeowners to the persistence of segregation by race and class. The book shows how innovations that increase the flexibility of property law can address critical issues of neighborhood control and community composition that have been simmering unresolved for decades—and how homeownership itself can be reinvented to better deliver on its promises.Less
This book grapples with a core modern reality—that the value and meaning of a home extends beyond its property lines to schools, shops, parks, services, neighbors, neighborhood aesthetics, and market conditions. The resulting tension between the homeowner's desire for personal autonomy at home and the impulse to control everything that could affect the home's value fuels continual conflict among neighbors and communities. The home's unbounded nature implicates nearly every facet of residential life, from the financial vulnerability of homeowners to the persistence of segregation by race and class. The book shows how innovations that increase the flexibility of property law can address critical issues of neighborhood control and community composition that have been simmering unresolved for decades—and how homeownership itself can be reinvented to better deliver on its promises.
Amy Starecheski
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226399805
- eISBN:
- 9780226400006
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226400006.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Though New York’s Lower East Side today is heavily gentrified, it spent decades as an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict—an emblematic example of the tattered state of ...
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Though New York’s Lower East Side today is heavily gentrified, it spent decades as an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict—an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and ’80s Manhattan. Those decades of strife, however, also gave the Lower East Side something unusual: a radical movement that blended urban homesteading and European-style squatting into something never before seen in the United States. Ours to Lose tells the story of that social movement through a close look at a diverse group of Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal occupancy into legal cooperative ownership. The squatters had made moral and political claims on urban space that, in a rare turn of events, turned into legal rights. These persistent squatters created almost a dozen low-income, limited equity co-operative buildings in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in New York but also, more intangibly, a sprawling network of chosen family, a history of struggle, a repertoire of tactics, and a story that continues to inspire others to ask: Is it possible to create a space outside of capitalism? Combining oral history and ethnography, Ours to Lose not only tells a little-known New York City story, it also shows how property shapes our sense of ourselves as social beings and explores the ethics of homeownership and debt in post-recession America.Less
Though New York’s Lower East Side today is heavily gentrified, it spent decades as an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict—an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and ’80s Manhattan. Those decades of strife, however, also gave the Lower East Side something unusual: a radical movement that blended urban homesteading and European-style squatting into something never before seen in the United States. Ours to Lose tells the story of that social movement through a close look at a diverse group of Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal occupancy into legal cooperative ownership. The squatters had made moral and political claims on urban space that, in a rare turn of events, turned into legal rights. These persistent squatters created almost a dozen low-income, limited equity co-operative buildings in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in New York but also, more intangibly, a sprawling network of chosen family, a history of struggle, a repertoire of tactics, and a story that continues to inspire others to ask: Is it possible to create a space outside of capitalism? Combining oral history and ethnography, Ours to Lose not only tells a little-known New York City story, it also shows how property shapes our sense of ourselves as social beings and explores the ethics of homeownership and debt in post-recession America.
Roberta Gold
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038181
- eISBN:
- 9780252095986
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038181.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, ...
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In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban communities held a right to remain in place—a right that outweighed owners' rights to raise rents, redevelop properties, or exclude tenants of color. Further, the activists asserted that women could participate fully in the political arenas where these matters were decided. Grounded in archival research and oral history, this book shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. The book emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war, the prominent role of women within the tenant movement, and their fostering of a concept of “urban community rights” grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods.Less
In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban communities held a right to remain in place—a right that outweighed owners' rights to raise rents, redevelop properties, or exclude tenants of color. Further, the activists asserted that women could participate fully in the political arenas where these matters were decided. Grounded in archival research and oral history, this book shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. The book emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war, the prominent role of women within the tenant movement, and their fostering of a concept of “urban community rights” grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods.
Todd M. Michney
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469631943
- eISBN:
- 9781469631967
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631943.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighbourhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended ...
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The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighbourhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outside the overcrowded, inner-city neighbourhoods to which most African Americans were consigned. In asserting their right to these outer-city spaces, African Americans appealed to city officials, allied with politically progressive whites (notably Jewish activists), and relied upon both black and white developers and real estate agents to expand these "surrogate suburbs" and maintain their liveability until the bona fide suburbs became more accessible. By tracking the trajectories of those who, in spite of racism, were able to succeed, Michney offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on racial conflict and black poverty and tells the neglected story of the black middle class in America's cities prior to the 1960s.Less
The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighbourhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outside the overcrowded, inner-city neighbourhoods to which most African Americans were consigned. In asserting their right to these outer-city spaces, African Americans appealed to city officials, allied with politically progressive whites (notably Jewish activists), and relied upon both black and white developers and real estate agents to expand these "surrogate suburbs" and maintain their liveability until the bona fide suburbs became more accessible. By tracking the trajectories of those who, in spite of racism, were able to succeed, Michney offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on racial conflict and black poverty and tells the neglected story of the black middle class in America's cities prior to the 1960s.
Nancy H. Kwak
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226282350
- eISBN:
- 9780226282497
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226282497.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
After World War II, American planners and housing experts urged countries around the world to launch mass homeownership programs. The US’ rising dominance in the global economy led these men and ...
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After World War II, American planners and housing experts urged countries around the world to launch mass homeownership programs. The US’ rising dominance in the global economy led these men and women to believe they could exert greater influence over the writing of laws, institutions, and forms around the world. They believed more accessible, mortgage-driven homeownership could spread political and economic stability; by giving families a literal stake in the nation, governments could stimulate political “buy in” and motivate higher savings rates, providing a larger pool of potential development capital for national economic growth and raising standards of living. All of these benefits would render a country less vulnerable to communism and bolster international security. To itinerant American experts, mass homeownership seemed an unquestionable good in the postwar world. Despite the flood of American dollars and advice, however, housing diplomacy played out unpredictably. Local and national interests determined what aspects of overseas aid would be accepted and implemented. Even governments that wanted to replicate American mass homeownership programs ended up producing highly localized forms serving particular political constituencies. In the end, questions of who should own homes where, and how, intertwined with the largest questions about economy, government, and society. This book narrates the evolution of American overseas housing aid programs and explains the limits on American influence in the postwar world.Less
After World War II, American planners and housing experts urged countries around the world to launch mass homeownership programs. The US’ rising dominance in the global economy led these men and women to believe they could exert greater influence over the writing of laws, institutions, and forms around the world. They believed more accessible, mortgage-driven homeownership could spread political and economic stability; by giving families a literal stake in the nation, governments could stimulate political “buy in” and motivate higher savings rates, providing a larger pool of potential development capital for national economic growth and raising standards of living. All of these benefits would render a country less vulnerable to communism and bolster international security. To itinerant American experts, mass homeownership seemed an unquestionable good in the postwar world. Despite the flood of American dollars and advice, however, housing diplomacy played out unpredictably. Local and national interests determined what aspects of overseas aid would be accepted and implemented. Even governments that wanted to replicate American mass homeownership programs ended up producing highly localized forms serving particular political constituencies. In the end, questions of who should own homes where, and how, intertwined with the largest questions about economy, government, and society. This book narrates the evolution of American overseas housing aid programs and explains the limits on American influence in the postwar world.
Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9789888139446
- eISBN:
- 9789888180349
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139446.003.0021
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter looks into why there is an enormous aspiration within the community for homeownership, and glances at the housing policies implemented by the government over the past few decades. It ...
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This chapter looks into why there is an enormous aspiration within the community for homeownership, and glances at the housing policies implemented by the government over the past few decades. It also examines why the majority of the younger generation has to rely on their parents’ financial support to purchase a flat. The government has to come up with a more wholesale change of policy with regard to homeownership, with a view to enlarging homeownership in the community so that even the have-nots can benefit. The author also suggests that the government should review its discounted premium collection policy on the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) flats in a bid to achieve a triple-win situation. Ill-defined property rights may give rise to mammoth negotiation costs and complicate the redevelopment of HOS flats, and some recommendations which require merely easy-to-adjust changes are put forward.Less
This chapter looks into why there is an enormous aspiration within the community for homeownership, and glances at the housing policies implemented by the government over the past few decades. It also examines why the majority of the younger generation has to rely on their parents’ financial support to purchase a flat. The government has to come up with a more wholesale change of policy with regard to homeownership, with a view to enlarging homeownership in the community so that even the have-nots can benefit. The author also suggests that the government should review its discounted premium collection policy on the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) flats in a bid to achieve a triple-win situation. Ill-defined property rights may give rise to mammoth negotiation costs and complicate the redevelopment of HOS flats, and some recommendations which require merely easy-to-adjust changes are put forward.
Nancy H. Kwak
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226282350
- eISBN:
- 9780226282497
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226282497.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter explains the nature of American interest in international housing conditions after World War II, as well as the mechanisms by which Americans funnelled aid abroad. American aid flowed ...
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This chapter explains the nature of American interest in international housing conditions after World War II, as well as the mechanisms by which Americans funnelled aid abroad. American aid flowed primarily through the international division of federal housing agencies, or the various agencies tasked with bilateral aid outside the Department of Defense. Americans also contributed to a wide array of international, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental bodies, exerting varying degrees of influence within each. This chapter details the various modes of American leadership and participation and then offers a short summary of the overarching organization of the book.Less
This chapter explains the nature of American interest in international housing conditions after World War II, as well as the mechanisms by which Americans funnelled aid abroad. American aid flowed primarily through the international division of federal housing agencies, or the various agencies tasked with bilateral aid outside the Department of Defense. Americans also contributed to a wide array of international, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental bodies, exerting varying degrees of influence within each. This chapter details the various modes of American leadership and participation and then offers a short summary of the overarching organization of the book.
Nancy H. Kwak
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226282350
- eISBN:
- 9780226282497
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226282497.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter revisits the main arguments of the book and argues for a more historically nuanced understanding of global development aid and housing policy.
This chapter revisits the main arguments of the book and argues for a more historically nuanced understanding of global development aid and housing policy.
