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来源

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOUSING POLICY,Vol.19,Issue2,P.192-212

语言

英文

关键字

Rooming house; marginality; regulation; media; planning; NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE; POLICY; GENTRIFICATION; STUDENTIFICATION; PARKDALE; POVERTY; AMERICA; TORONTO; AGENDA

作者单位

[Grant, Jill L.; Derksen, Janelle] Dalhousie Univ, Sch Planning, Halifax, NS, Canada. [Ramos, Howard] Dalhousie Univ, Dept Sociol & Social Anthropol, Halifax, NS, Canada. Grant, JL (reprint author), Dalhousie Univ, Sch Planning, Halifax, NS, Canada. E-Mail: Jill.grant@dal.ca

标签

住房政策,城市社会学 | 其他

摘要

Communities often stigmatise forms of housing targeting low-income tenants. This paper examines how media sources characterise one such form: rooming houses that provide multiple, low-cost, single-room accommodations in structures with shared bathrooms and/or kitchens. By analysing newspaper and online media coverage in Halifax, Canada, we illustrate the way the media describe the rooming house as a risky structure and its occupants as dangerous and marginalised persons requiring surveillance and regulation. Media coverage can play an important role in creating the social context within which local government fashions planning and housing policy interventions to control the size, location, and operation of unpopular housing options. In cities where market pressures drive gentrification, negative media coverage can contribute to the on-going loss of such affordable housing opportunities.