Metropolitics

Landlord Tech in Covid‑19 Times

Erin McElroy & Wonyoung So — 2021-03-30T05:00:00Z

Covid‑19 has expanded trends in surveillance technology deployed by landlords and property managers—resulting in racialized and gendered harms—and targeted people who are already surveilled by the carceral state.
---- Series: Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research Covid‑19 has exacerbated existing forms of housing injustice, as the corollary economic recession, stay-at-home orders, and increased domestic work such as childcare have made it impossible for

- From the Field / technology, landlords, evictions, surveillance, Covid-19, coronavirus, pandemic, tenants

When Predator Becomes Prey: Rental Housing in Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods

Clément Théry — 2015-02-02T11:00:00Z

In the growing low-income rental market, predator and prey roles can shift, as landlords and tenants alike can fall victim to predatory cliques led by lawyers with local knowledge and a promise to help. Clément Théry's extensive research finds that affordable housing policy must recognize the threats low-income tenants face in the private market.
Most accounts of the rental housing market in low-income minority neighborhoods point to the role of major corporations with connections to

- From the Field / gentrification, ethnicity, housing, United States, New York, landlords, minorities, rental, poverty, race, housing crisis, insecurity, rent, rental housing

Solving the housing crisis: opening up private housing to the social sector

2013-02-13T05:50:00Z

Jean-Pierre Lévy has devoted much of his work to the issue of poor housing conditions. Here, for Metropolitics, he discusses the causes of a crisis that, in his view, is essentially qualitative in nature, and proposes a solution to this crisis, whereby the social status of housing is defined according to who occupies it rather than where it is built.
What are the main differences between the way housing issues were addressed in the 1970s and the way they are addressed today?
Housing issues

- Interviews / homeownership, housing, housing policy, social housing, public policy, landlords, rental, rent, rental housing