Household survival strategies in a public housing development

Devine, Joel A.; Sams-Abiodun, Petrice

doi:10.1016/s1047-0042(01)80011-8

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“…One's conceptualization of sociological terms such as agency, structure, culture, globalization, and so on, profoundly shape what one chooses to study, how the 9 Viewing neighborhood effects through a spatial lens would help us move beyond the idea that causal linkages exist between neighborhood context (geographical space), individual behavior and social outcomes. Many poor areas possess dense and sophisticated networks that help residents cope with social exclusion and marginality (for a recent empirical study, see Devine and Sams-Abiodun, 2001). Out-of-wedlock childrearing may not be deviant in communities with many extended family and friendship networks.…”

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Toward an understanding of the spatiality of urban poverty: the urban poor as spatial actors

Gotham

2003

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of empirical research on the role of space in group life at the same time scholars have lamented the under-theorization of space in sociology. In particular, mainstream poverty researchers have conceptualized space as a neutral backdrop against which action unfolds and viewed poor people's agency as passive and unreflexive. This article attempts to move beyond this space-as-container ontology and provide a more coherent view of how theorizing space and spatial issues can help us understand the actions of the urban poor. At the core of the paper is an attempt to theorize agency as a spatial phenomenon - with spatial attributes and spatial influences - and offer empirical insight into how different spatial meanings can enable or constrain particular forms of social action and behavior. My intent is to contribute to an understanding of the urban poor as spatial actors. I argue that the importance of space lies in understanding it as an object of political struggle, a constitutive component of human agency, and a facilitator as well as constraint upon action. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2003.

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Toward an understanding of the spatiality of urban poverty: the urban poor as spatial actors

Gotham

2003

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…We then reviewed hundreds of pages of interview transcripts and notes from focus-group meetings with public-housing residents in several sites across the city to familiarize ourselves with how residents perceived the impending demolition of existing sites, relocation to off-site housing, and disruption of social networks. These transcripts and notes were available from a multi-year team ethnography conducted by graduate students and faculty working in two local universities during the late 1990s (see Devine and Sams-Abiodun, 2001; Gotham and Brumley, 2002).…”

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Framing the Urban: Struggles Over HOPE VI and New Urbanism in a Historic City

2003

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Recent debate over the federal HOPE VI program has focused primarily on whether local applications have met administrative pledges to provide adequate affordable housing to displaced residents of newly demolished public-housing developments. In this research we take a different direction, examining local processes of political mobilization and strategic framing around a specific type of HOPE VI redevelopmentone that includes construction of a big-box superstore as part of proposed urban renewal. We argue that the HOPE VI program's formal alignment with New Urbanism created a political opportunity for competing actors to adopt and espouse selective new urbanist themes and imagery to construct and advance divergent visions of what urban space ought to be. Through these framing strategies and struggles, the developer, displaced residents, and opposition groups produced "the City" as a rhetorical object that each then used to advocate specific redevelopment proposals while de-legitimating competing claims. In this way, the HOPE VI program constitutes more than a new federal housing policy; it offers a new vocabulary for framing and mobilizing collective action in contemporary urban centers.

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“…Several research studies have determined that low-income households employ a range of adaptive strategies, including informal support networks, unreported and underground work, and cash or in-kind supports from voluntary and charitable organizations, to ensure that the basic necessities of life are secured (Devine and Sams-Abiodun, 2001;Edin, 2001;Hulchanski and Michalski, 1994;Kennedy, 1995). Edin and Lein (1997), for example, outline the relative importance of different survival strategies among low-income "welfare-reliant" and "wage-reliant'' mothers.…”

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Housing Affordability, Social Policy and Economic Conditions: Food Bank Users in the Greater Toronto Area, 1990–2000*

Michalski

2003

Canadian Review of Sociology

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Cet article examine les tendances dans les corrélats sociaux et économiques de L'utilisation des banques alimentaires dans la région du Grand Toronto au moyen d'entrevues annuelles auprès d'utilisateurs entre 1990 et 2000. L'analyse teste la thèse selon laquelle les incidences des réductions des allocations d'aide sociale et les coûts de logement contribuent à la vulnérabilitééconomique des families et des ménages déjà marginalisés. L'auteur a eu recours à la statistique descriptive et à la modélisation de régression à plusieurs variables pour évaluer les changements dans les revenus après coûts d'habitation disponibles auprès des utilisateurs de banques alimentaires avant (1990–1995) et apres (1996–2000) les compressions d'aide sociale en Ontario. Les résultats confirment L'importance des réductions des taux des prestations d'aide sociale et les problemes de logement abordable comme étant des facteurs qui contribuent au déclin des revenus après coûts d'habitation disponibles auprès de ces utilisateurs. The following paper examines trends in the social and economic correlates of food bank usage in the Greater Toronto Area through annual interviews with food bank users between 1990–2000. The analysis tests the thesis that the effects of social assistance rate reductions and housing costs contributed to the economic vulnerability of these already marginalized families and households. Descriptive statistics and multivariate regression modelling were used to assess changes in post‐shelter income available to food bank users prior to (1990–1995) and following Ontario social assistance cuts (1996–2000). The results confirm the importance of social assistance rate reductions and housing affordability problems as factors contributing to the decline in post‐shelter income available to food bank users.

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Household survival strategies in a public housing development

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Toward an understanding of the spatiality of urban poverty: the urban poor as spatial actors

Toward an understanding of the spatiality of urban poverty: the urban poor as spatial actors

Framing the Urban: Struggles Over HOPE VI and New Urbanism in a Historic City

Housing Affordability, Social Policy and Economic Conditions: Food Bank Users in the Greater Toronto Area, 1990–2000*

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