Neoliberal Housing Policy and the Gentrification of the American Urban System

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Abstract: Recent calls by Lees and Slater for a "geography of gentrification " establish an ambitious research agenda, challenging us to consider 1) geographical contingency in the balance, validity, or relevance of the literature's traditional dualities, as well as 2) variations in the imprint of each type of process. In this paper we offer a limited yet provocative examination of the latter issue; if American neoliberalism has turned gentrification into Smith's revanchist city, we ask, then what is its geography? Drawing on a database of gentrified neighborhoods and mortgage loan files in 23 large U.S. cities, we measure inter-urban variations in the class character of gentrification, its connection to anti-homeless ordinances, and its intensification of racial and ethnic discrimination. Our analysis reveals a complex urban system of gentrification, exclusion, and discrimination. The new urbanism may be rooted in the global reconfiguration of local places, but it inscribes important contingencies in the face of exclusion and discrimination in the inner city. 2As the Nation celebrated a new era, its home ownership rate had moved to an historic high....Public housing-- especially the isolated, distressed clusters of

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