Metropolitics

Black Homeownership Under Racial Capitalism: A Review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's Race for Profit

Hilary Botein — 2019-12-10T06:00:00Z

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's Race for Profit examines the urban homeownership programs of the 1960s and 1970s, and shows how they exploited rather than enriched black homeowners and communities, and set the stage for the retreat from racial liberalism.
In Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real-Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor explores black urban homeownership in the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on the public–private partnerships that facilitated

- Reviews / race, homeownership, property ownership, capitalism, United States, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Black women

Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?

Thomas Kirszbaum & translated by Oliver Waine — 2019-05-03T05:00:00Z

By allowing demolitions and evictions in well-located working-class neighborhoods, urban renewal is sometimes described as a neoliberal policy, favorable to land and property investors. But this interpretation, founded on the trauma of postwar urban policies, only tells part of the story when it comes to understanding contemporary urban renewal in the United States.
The policy of urban renewal implemented in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s came to symbolize the collusion of local

- Essays / working-class neighborhoods, working classes, urban renewal, United States, urban policy, capitalism, neoliberalism, demolition, Department of Housing and Urban Development, HOPE VI program

Storm Recovery: Local Efforts, Municipal Constraints, and New Ways Forward

Michael P. McCabe — 2017-11-28T06:00:00Z

Climate change-induced storm surges and rising sea levels will steadily cause more damage to homes in low-lying urban and metropolitan regions, in turn creating profound new challenges for local governments. In this paper, Michael McCabe reflects on the lessons to be learned from a housing recovery program aimed at assisting owners in one- to four-family residential buildings in New York City.
Rising waters and more frequent and ferocious storms propelled by climate change make it imperative

- Debates / catastrophe, housing, disaster, recovery, New York, resilience, hurricane, climate change, sea-level rise, Community Development Block Grants, Department of Housing and Urban Development, storm recovery, Federal Emergency Management Agency, capacity building, program design and implementation

Federal Anti-Segregation Milestones Demand Local Mobilization

Justin Steil — 2015-11-24T06:00:00Z

In June 2015, the US Supreme Court affirmed a legal tool that stands to hold municipalities and lenders accountable to fair housing and residential integration goals. In July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released a rule that offers new points of leverage in the fair-housing planning process. However, both will require sustained mobilization if they are to have any real impact.
The past year has witnessed the most vigorous public discussion of residential segregation and

- From the Field / segregation, housing, United States, discrimination, supreme court, fair housing, residential segregation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, mobilization, redlining