The Sociology of Housing : How Homes Shape Our Social Lives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCabe, Brian J.

Contributor:

Rosen, Eva.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in housing--United States.

Discrimination in housing.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Housing policy--United States.

Housing policy.

Housing--United States.

Housing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Summary:

A landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life. In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association, Louis Wirth, argued for the importance of housing as a field of sociological research. Now, seventy-five years later, the sociology of housing has still not developed as a distinct subfield, leaving efforts to understand housing's place in society to other disciplines, such as economics and urban planning. With this volume, the editors and contributors solidify the importance of housing studies within the discipline of sociology by tackling topics like racial segregation, housing instability, the supply of affordable housing, and the process of eviction. In doing so, they showcase the very best traditions of sociology: they draw on diverse methodologies, present unique field sites and data sources, and foreground a range of theoretical approaches to elucidate the relationships between contemporary housing, public policy, and key social outcomes. The Sociology of Housing is a landmark volume that will be used by researchers and students alike to define this growing subfield, map continued directions for research, and center sociologists in interdisciplinary conversations about housing.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction. How Homes Shape Our Social Lives

Part I: Mechanisms of Housing Inequality

1. Housing as Capital: US Policy, Homeownership, and the Racial Wealth Gap

2. Latino Homeownership: Opportunities and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

3. Latinos' Housing Inequality: Local Historical Context and the Relational Formation of Segregation

4. The Renaissance Comes to the Projects: Public Housing Policy, Race, and Urban Redevelopment in Baltimore

5. Unsettling Native Land: Indigenous Perspectives on Housing

6. Affordable Housing Is Public Health: How Landlords Struggle to Contain America's Lead Poisoning Crisis

7. Audit Studies of Housing Discrimination: Established, Emerging, and Future Research

Part II: Housing Insecurity and Instability

8. Centering the Institutional Life of Eviction

9. Manufactured Housing in the US: A Critical Affordable Housing Infrastructure

10. Shared Housing and Housing Instability

11. Informal Housing in the US: Variation and Inequality among Squatters in Detroit

12. Housing Deprivation: Homelessness and the Reproduction of Poverty

Part III: Housing Markets and Housing Supply

13. Housing Supply as a Social Process

14. Housing Market Intermediaries

15. Housing in the Context of Neighborhood Decline

16. Learning from Short-Term Rentals' "Disruptions"

17. Moving beyond "Good Landlord, Bad Landlord": A Theoretical Investigation of Exploitation in Housing

18. How We Pay to House Each Other

Part IV: Housing, Racial Segregation, and Inequality

19. The Future of Segregation Studies: Questions, Challenges, and Opportunities

20. Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Residential Mobility among Housing Choice Voucher Holders

21. All in the Family: Social Connections and the Cycle of Segregation.

22. Policing, Property, and the Production of Racial Segregation

23. Criminal Justice Contact and Housing Inequality

24. The Housing Divide in the Global South

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-226-82852-2

OCLC:

1396062468