The New Face of Urban Renewal: The Near North Redevelopment Initiative and the Cabrini-Green Neighborhood

Bennett, Larry; Reed, Adolph

doi:10.4324/9780429503047-8

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“…This finding is consistent with studies demonstrating that residential stability increases social cohesion (Kasarda and Janowitz 1974;Keene and Geronimus 2011;Tach 2009). Longtime public housing residents may be more likely to engage in many of the practices that enhance social organization: building social networks, exchanging support, and working cooperatively to improve the quality of their homes (Arena 2012;Bennett and Reed 1999;Feldman and Stall 2004;Hunt 2009;Tach 2009;Venkatesh 2000). Although I cannot identify the mechanisms underpinning the association between longtime residency in public housing and trust among neighbors, the evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that residents build trust with their neighbors in the process of collectively solving problems.…”

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“…For example, in the 1960s and 1970s, residents at Chicago’s Stateway Gardens founded a variety of recreational programs for youths, created laundry co-opts and tenant patrols to keep their homes safe, and reached out to parks district programs, churches, and universities for resources and services (Hunt 2009). Similarly, from the late 1980s through the 1990s, tenant organizations at Chicago’s Cabrini Green Homes had participants numbering in the hundreds (Bennett and Reed 1999). Even in places and at times when housing authorities lacked sufficient funding to maintain buildings and provide adequate services, public housing residents often stepped in to fill the void (Feldman and Stall 2004; Venkatesh 2000).…”

Section: Social Organization In Public Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Trust and the Built Environment in New York City’s Public Housing

Beck

2018

Sociological Perspectives

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Public housing has been an important site for empirical research on concentrated poverty, social isolation, and social organization. Scholars have demonstrated that public housing was disproportionately built in high poverty neighborhoods, thereby exacerbating the physical and social isolation of residents. They have also hypothesized that physical features of public housing may contribute to a breakdown of social organization. These hypotheses motivated the demolition of large and physically deteriorated public housing structures throughout the United States. I use the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey to test the hypotheses that large building size and visible building disorder are associated with mistrust among neighbors, as would be expected by theories linking the built environment to social organization. Although I find some evidence that trust is less common in large buildings with higher levels of disorder, I argue that critics of public housing overstate the social effects of the built environment.

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Section: Social Organization In Public Housingmentioning

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Trust and the Built Environment in New York City’s Public Housing

Beck

2018

Sociological Perspectives

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“…Public housing transformation, and its burdens (e.g., coerced mobility, fragmented social capital, increased rental costs) for working-class and poorer Black people who or whose kin reside in it, is one issue where the distributive dynamics of BML may matter. This is because public housing and its transformation has been and remains a fraught issue in "the Black community" (e.g., Arena 2012;Bennett and Reed 1999;Ferguson 2002;Pattillo 2007;Rodriguez, forthcoming;Thompson 2006), shaped by paternalism, neoliberalism, and political alienation among the poor, which influence problem governance, generally, by Black municipal leaders (Gillespie 2012;Shaw 2009;Spence 2015;Weaver 2018).…”

Section: Distributive Dynamics Of Bmlmentioning

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“Let’s Get Ready to Crumble”: Black Municipal Leadership and Public Housing Transformation in the United States

Owens

Rodriguez

Brown

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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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.

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“…Besides, there is a contested future, since the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and the City of Chicago are not clear about what to do with the large amounts of land that still remain vacant in the area. Cabrini Green and the neighborhood around it present a long history of diversity, segregation, racial struggles, and recent attempts to erase its history (Bennett & Reed, 1999). Figure 2 shows the limits of the area and the location of different types of affordable housing.…”

Section: The Cabrini Green-near North Area In Chicagomentioning

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Bringing inequality closer: A comparative outlook at socially diverse neighbourhoods in Chicago and Santiago de Chile1

Ruiz‐Tagle¹

2018

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This chapter addresses the issues of segregation and social mix by comparing two socially diverse neighbourhoods in Chicago (Cabrini Green and Near North) and Santiago (La Loma and La Florida area). It aims to understand how social relationships can be modified by a change in spatial configurations, questioning whether intergroup physical proximity triggers other processes of integration, notably functional, relational, and symbolic integration. Social mix leads to more amenities and some institutional change, but not to upward social mobility for the poor. Moreover, intergroup relationships in these socially mixed neighbourhoods are marked by fear, distrust, and avoidance and governed by increased material and symbolic competition. Ultimately, the physical proximity of social mix conceals the persistence of inequality and the forces that are actively maintaining segregation.

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The New Face of Urban Renewal: The Near North Redevelopment Initiative and the Cabrini-Green Neighborhood

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Trust and the Built Environment in New York City’s Public Housing

Trust and the Built Environment in New York City’s Public Housing

“Let’s Get Ready to Crumble”: Black Municipal Leadership and Public Housing Transformation in the United States

Bringing inequality closer: A comparative outlook at socially diverse neighbourhoods in Chicago and Santiago de Chile1

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