Housing Justice
Housing Justice
Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the Grassroots
Marnie Brady, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and H. Jacob Carlson, Image Credit: Mike Dennis
This article asks, "What would community-owned, democratically controlled housing actually look like? From California to Germany to Uruguay, popular movements offer an inspiring range of answers."
Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
Marcus Anthony Hunter
"The first book to return to the Black Seventh Ward and examine what happened to the neighborhood and its residents following the publication of The Philadelphia Negro by W.E.B DuBois in 1899."
First Days of Camp JTD: Philly Homeless Build Their Own Hope
Quinn McGarrigle, Image Credit: Maddie Rose
This article is an account of Camp JTD and its direction and strategy, highlighting discussions with some of the camp's participants
Know Your Rights as a Renter in Philadelphia
Housing Equality Center of Pennsylvania
This manual provides "general information and self-help resources regarding state and federal Fair Housing laws and Pennsylvania Landlord Tenant Law as it pertains to the rental of private residential property."
read here (link at bottom of site)
Philly’s Housing Encampments of 2020 Led to a Nationally Celebrated Deal. Then It All Began to Unravel
Nate File, Image Credit: Drew Dennis
Camp JTD led to what "was supposed to be a historic agreement between the city and activists that would revolutionize the way Philly — and the country — dealt with homelessness." Over a year later, this article examines what actually resulted.
Rental Code Enforcement in Philadelphia
Karen Black and Octavia Howell, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Image Credit: Lexey Swall
“Philadelphia has long been known as a city of homeowners, but that has been changing in the past decade— to the point that nearly half of the city’s households are now renters. Yet the condition of most rental units in Philadelphia remains largely unmonitored by the city [...] To determine how the current system is addressing the quality of rental housing, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, The Pew Charitable Trusts conducted an in-depth examination of the rental regulation system in Philadelphia—and the corresponding systems in other major cities.”
Rethinking Homelessness Prevention among Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Stephen Metraux, and Dennis Culhane
"This article summarizes the evolving understanding of the role that serious mental illness plays in homelessness, as well as the interventions that are effective at preventing and ending homelessness among persons with serious mental illness."
Take the houses back/take the land back: Black and Indigenous urban futures in Oakland
Margaret Marietta Ramírez
This article considers “what urban futures [the two ...] emergent movements from the Lisjan Ohlone land of Oakland, California, Moms 4 Housing and the Sogorea Te’ LandTrust, [...] reveal amid a housing crisis that is tightly bound to long histories of colonial and racial capitalist dispossession in the Bay Area, and how these Black and Indigenous women-led movements offer routes toward housing justice and the decolonization of land.”
The carceral production of transgender poverty: How racialized gender policing deprives transgender women of housing and safety
Dilara Yarbrough
"Based on interviews and ethnography, this article analyzes how racialized gender policing in public space and service organizations deprives transgender women of survival resources."
The State of Housing Affordability in Philadelphia
Octavia Howell, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Image Credit: Lexey Swall
“As Philadelphia has shifted from a shrinking city to a growing one with an increased demand for housing, officials and advocates have expressed mounting concern about the degree to which the city remains affordable—and for whom. To assess the situation, The Pew Charitable Trusts conducted a detailed examination of housing data from Philadelphia and put the findings in the context of other large cities throughout the country.”
The Tenants' Movement in the United States
Peter Dreier
"This article explains the origins of the modern tenants' movement, its current status and its political strategies and tactics."
Unpolicing the Urban Poor: Consequences of Third-Party Policing for Inner-City Women
Matthew Desmond and Nicol Valdez
“This study, an analysis of every nuisance citation distributed in Milwaukee over a two-year period, [...] evaluate[s] empirically the impact of coercive third-party policing on the urban poor [... revealing] previously unforeseen consequences of new crime control strategies for women from inner-city neighborhoods.”