Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781108708517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Katherine Levine Einstein; David M. Glick; Maxwell Palmer

Opis

Neighborhood Defenders reveals how local politics contributes to the current housing crisis - by empowering unrepresentative groups of privileged homeowners to restrict the supply of new housing through participatory housing permitting processes. Their participation exacerbates inequality and reduces new housing in the places that most need it.

Recenzje

'Neighborhood Defenders is a book of nuances, to be read with your thinking cap on and your mind open to new insights. It shows that, while participation can be a powerful source of inequality, NIMBYISM is only one slice of the whole reality of housing politics.' Clarence Stone, George Washington University

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Neighborhood defenders and the power of delay; 3. Land use regulations and multifamily housing development; 4. Land use regulations and public input; 5. Who are the neighborhood defenders?; 6. Neighborhood defense tactics; 7. Gentrification, affordable housing, and housing reform; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.