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作者

Michael Leo Owens, Akira Drake Rodriguez, Robert A. Brown

来源

URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW,Vol.57,Issue2,P.373–401

语言

英文

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作者单位

1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA;2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;3Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA

摘要

U.S. cities transform public housing. Black municipal leadership (BML) may influence the scale and character of public housing removal and redevelopment. Informed by the “Black urban regime” literature, this study assesses whether presence and duration of BML, coupled with other factors, explains variation in public housing transformation for a sample of large cities. Its findings suggest that, controlling for other factors, BML is associated with moderately greater scales of public housing removal in the 1990s and 2000s, but BML is not associated with the “rate of return” by former public housing residents or new residence by public housing eligible households in Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) communities as of 2016. The findings invite further research on the intraracial dynamics and policy consequences of BML. They build, too, on public housing transformation scholarship, raising new questions about how municipal politics shape public housing and other sites of subsidized residence for low-income denizens of cities.