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Atuahene, Bernadette; Hodge, Timothy R.

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“…When the housing bubble burst and the financial crisis hit, these communities were, in turn, adversely affected; Black, Latino, and racially integrated neighborhoods had much higher foreclosure rates than White neighborhoods (Hall et al, 2015). Marginalized populations' vulnerability to losing their home is further exacerbated by laws and policies that place them at risk for excessively high property taxes and fees (Atuahene and Hodge, 2018). Making matters worse, many cities have privatized liens on tax-delinquent properties to generate funding by selling them to private, often for-profit, investors who charge crippling interest rates, add additional fees, and ultimately take away people's property for debts as low as tens of dollars (Kahrl, 2017).…”

Section: The Historical Roots Of Housing Disparities In the Usmentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing as a determinant of health equity: A conceptual model

Swope

Hernández

2019

Social Science & Medicine

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Housing is a major pathway through which health disparities emerge and are sustained over time. However, no existing unified conceptual model has comprehensively elucidated the relationship between housing and health equity with attention to the full range of harmful exposures, their cumulative burden and their historical production. We synthesized literature from a diverse array of disciplines to explore the varied aspects of the relationship between housing and health and developed an original conceptual model highlighting these complexities. This holistic conceptual model of the impact of housing on health disparities illustrates how structural inequalities shape unequal distribution of access to health-promoting housing factors, which span four pillars: 1) cost (housing affordability); 2) conditions (housing quality); 3) consistency (residential stability); and 4) context (neighborhood opportunity). We further demonstrate that these four pillars can lead to cumulative burden by interacting with one another and with other structurally-rooted inequalities to produce and reify health disparities. We conclude by offering a comprehensive vision for healthy housing that situates housing's impact on health through a historical and social justice lens, which can help to better design policies and interventions that use housing to promote health equity.

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Section: The Historical Roots Of Housing Disparities In the Usmentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing as a determinant of health equity: A conceptual model

Swope

Hernández

2019

Social Science & Medicine

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170

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“…In this way, the expansion of monetary sanctions and resulting financial indebtedness to the shadow carceral state are an example of what Skocpol (1980, p. 155) would term a "political response to capitalist crisis." Scholars have described the contemporary relationship between these institutional arrangements and accumulation as "captive markets" (Plunkett, 2013), "mercenary criminal justice" (Logan & Wright, 2014), "seizure" (Katzenstein & Waller, 2015), "monetary myopia" (Martin, 2018), "stategraft" (Atuahene & Hodge, 2018), "predation" (Page & Soss, 2018), "carceral capitalism," (Wang, 2018), "extortion" (Pattillo & Kirk, 2020), and "racial capitalism" (Friedman, 2020). This extractive relationship has a number of adverse consequences on the individual, families, and communities by fostering a "punishment continuum" (Harris, 2016) that restricts physical movement in the form of "carceral immobility and financial capture" (Friedman, 2020).…”

Section: Linking Institutional Arrangements To Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unveiling the Necrocapitalist Dimensions of the Shadow Carceral State: On Pay-to-Stay to Recoup the Cost of Incarceration

Friedman

2020

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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The expansion of monetary sanctions constitutes what Beckett and Murakawa describe as the “shadow carceral state,” where covert penal power is expanded through institutional annexation by blending civil, administrative, and criminal legal authority. A growing body of work on monetary sanctions has begun to dissect covert penal power by tracing increased civil and administrative pipelines to incarceration, civil financial alternatives to criminal sanctions, and innovations to generate criminal justice revenue. However, institutional annexation and innovation in the form of contemporary pay-to-stay practices remain understudied and undertheorized. In this article, I first examine statutes and practices to theorize pay-to-stay as exemplary of the shadow carceral state—an outcome of legal hybridity and institutional annexation legitimated using the legal construction of “not punishment,” which frames monetary sanctions as non-punitive. Second, I expand Beckett and Murakawa’s framework to argue pay-to-stay practices reveal how the shadow carceral state compounds or initiates the civil death of those charged. I broaden our notion of civil death to include financial indebtedness to the shadow carceral state. I suggest covert penal power expands through the accumulation of resources extracted from people marked for civil death through criminal justice contact. Finally, I conclude that monetary sanctions such as pay-to-stay reveal how the shadow carceral state expands covert penal power through necrocapitalism, meaning institutional accumulation occurs through dispossession and the subjugation of life to the power of death.

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“…We welcome application of this frame beyond the Blackwhite binary. We also look forward to connecting creative extraction to other racialized extractive practices, such as predatory inclusion (Seamster and Charron-Ch enier, 2017;Taylor, 2019) and stategraft (Atuahene and Hodge, 2017). Further, we will support and extend critical environmental justice scholars' observations about the deep embeddedness of environmental racism in our larger society and demonstrate how environmental degradation is linked to larger processes of placemaking (and unmaking) in Black spaces (Seamster and Purifoy, 2020).…”

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confidence: 85%

Creative extraction: Black towns in white space

Purifoy

Seamster

2020

Environ Plan D

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This article interrogates the “anomalous” case of Black-founded towns, so-called because of their relative absence from discourse on Black place, their unique struggles for self-determined development, and their externally ascribed narratives of absent or dysfunctional governance, frequently invoked to explain their lack of access to basic infrastructure. We propose illuminating some of these so-called anomalies through Charles Mills’ “racial contract,” which we argue structures space at a deeper level than traditional legal arrangements and allows us to look relationally at Black towns in “white space.” We also rely on Cedric Robinson’s “racial capitalism” to demonstrate how white space develops through extraction of value from places racialized as nonwhite. Through the case of Tamina, Texas, we argue that Black towns specifically, and Black places more generally, experience racially predatory governance and resource extraction, often by nearby white places, under the guise of following mundane rules of legal jurisdiction, standard economic planning, and development. To illustrate this, we focus on three overlapping mechanisms of “creative extraction” that reinforce white spatial, political, and economic power at the expense of Black places: theft, erosion, and exclusion. These mechanisms are tied to the environmental harms inflicted on Black towns, as some of the existential threats they face.

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Stategraft

Cited by 8 publications

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Housing as a determinant of health equity: A conceptual model

Housing as a determinant of health equity: A conceptual model

Unveiling the Necrocapitalist Dimensions of the Shadow Carceral State: On Pay-to-Stay to Recoup the Cost of Incarceration

Creative extraction: Black towns in white space

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