Resisting gentrification

Annunziata, Sandra; Rivas-Alonso, Clara

doi:10.4337/9781785361746.00035

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“…It is possible to resist eviction, contest gentrification and dispose of housing precariousness, as demonstrated by the urban mobilizations that have emerged in recent years in different contexts [80][81][82][83][84][85]. In Spain, one of the main players in the fight for the right to housing is PAH, a social movement that was founded in Barcelona in February 2009 to provide support to grassroots activists for people who risk losing their homes due to mortgage insolvency.…”

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Urban Housing Inequity: Housing Deprivation and Social Response in the City of Naples

Lanza

Martino

2022

Sustainability

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The growth of social inequality in recent decades has a strong urban dimension. In fact, cities are places where such inequalities grow quickly, and have a strong influence on the living conditions and perspectives of different social groups. In this sense, urban segregation becomes an important warning in assessing the existence of disparities that affect the most disadvantaged social groups. Therefore, the aim of this research was to outline the evidence of the phenomenon of residential segregation and housing insecurity on a European scale, and to analyze the case study of Naples, Italy, evaluating the presence of the phenomena of urban segregation and housing insecurity within through the creation of a synthetic index: the “Index of housing deprivation in the neighborhoods of the city of Naples”. After analyzing the extent of the phenomena, we took a step further, seeking to understand whether there have been responses from civil society through protest movements. Indeed, another objective of this paper was to understand why, in the city of Naples, there is no strong social response. In order to give an explanation, we will carry out a comparison with the action of the social movements of Barcelona.

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“…In fact, as analyzed previously, the consequence of such a context of discomfort could arouse a strong social response embodied in the emergence of social movements, including those for the right to housing, as has emerged in different contexts [76,[80][81][82][83][84][85].…”

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Urban Housing Inequity: Housing Deprivation and Social Response in the City of Naples

Lanza

Martino

2022

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“…Resistance to gentrification has been framed as the right to stay put, and grassroots antigentrification efforts have employed a number of practices such as squats, community counter-planning, protests, occupations, building awareness, and collective mobilization (Annunziata & Rivas-Alonso, 2018). The ability of nongentrifying residents to shape the urban landscape can depend on the strength of their community ties (Balzarini & Shlay, 2018).…”

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Advocating for the Preservation of Senior Housing: A Coalition at Work Amid Gentrification in Detroit, Michigan

Perry

Berglund

Mah

et al. 2020

Housing Policy Debate

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As cities become increasingly gentrified, the experiences of their oldest and longest residents often go underrecognized in favor of class-based and racialized concerns about displacement. Underrepresented in both scholarship and organizing efforts, eviction and displacement pose unique threats to seniors because of the link between their health and housing needs. To uncover possible strategies for coalition building and senior housing policy advocacy in quickly changing neighborhoods, this article examines the strategic efforts of Senior Housing Preservation-Detroit (SHP-D). Originally formed in 2013 to address the displacement of a single building of seniors, SHP-D aims to raise awareness of and advocate to preserve housing in a city whose core is rapidly changing. In this article, we offer an overview of the coalition's advocacy as a way to highlight the role of community mobilization toward preserving affordable senior housing. We outline (a) the formation of the coalition, (b) recent developments, (c) strategic planning processes, and (d) lessons learned by this coalition that may be useful for other senior housing advocacy efforts. We conclude by addressing SHP-D's attention to immediate health needs of older adults in congregate housing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…16 The losses of place described above have also been shown to have negative health effects on residents. 17 As a result, scholars have examined practices of resistance to gentrification 18 in a variety of forms ranging from more housing policy-based approaches 19 to squatting and other community-based movements 20 to alternative planning approaches. 21 Increasingly, recent work on oppositional resistance in gentrification studies has been seen as limiting in that it is reactionary to homogeneous hegemonic forces of global capitalism.…”

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Three recent scenes in the affective life of gentrification in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch

Scott

Parekh

2020

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Drawing on the ‘reparative turn’ in queer feminist scholarship, we situate a commemorative march that took place in late March 2018 in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco as an entry point into the affective conditions of living in and through a period of intensifying urban development. Complete with a brass band, drag queens dressed in mourning, and black banners, participants stopped at the sites of former gay bars and other commercial establishments where they laid wreaths, offered eulogies, and affectively asserted the social and historical significance of these places. Nine months later, we interviewed organizers and participants and analyzed recordings of the event in order to register the sensate conditions that preceded, pervaded, and followed in the wake of the March. In so doing, we unravel the ‘undecidability of the urban’ in which residents call into question the impacts of gentrification. Through our tripartite engagement with the affective contours of the March, we situate the procession less as a discrete ceremonial event to re-inscribe collective memories in urban space or to lay claims to a right to urban territory, than as a momentary effort to work out and through the ongoing, shared feelings of loss in an increasingly unlivable city. By attending to the felt conditions of urban development, we argue for foregrounding shared sentiments as a viable pathway to opening up relief from, if not alternatives to, the ongoing displacements and dispossessions of the neoliberal city.

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Resisting gentrification

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Urban Housing Inequity: Housing Deprivation and Social Response in the City of Naples

Urban Housing Inequity: Housing Deprivation and Social Response in the City of Naples

Advocating for the Preservation of Senior Housing: A Coalition at Work Amid Gentrification in Detroit, Michigan

Three recent scenes in the affective life of gentrification in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch

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