{"id":7925,"date":"2023-06-13T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2023-06-14T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T22:23:08","slug":"beyond-housing-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/beyond-housing-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Housing Injustice: Expanding Community Connection Through Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research notes:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The interconnectedness of economic greed in the face of housing inaccessibility and environmental disaster<\/em><\/p>\n

Racism and the commodification of housing<\/em><\/p>\n

Hope for Resistance\u2014chronicling women-led Resistance and the Black Power movement<\/em><\/p>\n

Foregrounding the role of Black and women-led movements of resistance in the legacy of housing justice organizing<\/em><\/p>\n

Centering the perspectives of low-income Black and Brown communities<\/em><\/p>\n

Historical storytelling through zines and graphical depictions such as maps and collaging<\/em><\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s Scholar and Feminist Conference, \u201cHousing Justice\/ Housing Futures,\u201d engaged attendees in conversation centering on the reimagination of housing accessibility as we know it. Leading up to the event, I worked on curating a reading list for our communities to deepen their study. As housing injustice exists within the fractured web of other unjust structures of power, it was difficult to delineate the scope of such a list. I knew I wanted to offer materials directly connected to the presentations and offer attendees a chance to extend their thinking beyond one weekend in late February, but I struggled with how exactly to do so. A self-posed question illuminated the way: What exactly is central to the work spearheaded by the presenters? Aspects of community and colonialism came up time and time again through my scouring. In addition to furthering dialogue, I knew I wanted to highlight the predominantly Black, Brown, and Indigenous femme voices integral to fights against evictions, claims over ceded land, gentrification, and efforts to rightfully return spaces of living, learning, and recreation.<\/p>\n

As an education student, I\u2019ve read about and dreamed of being engrossed in a form of collective study. Within my college experience, group assignments and in-class discussions are often the only times that my individualized learning is shared with others. I think curation like the type I was tasked to do here is precious. It has allowed me to think critically about manifestations of imperial power beyond unrightful claims to land and share it with others to hopefully blossom into discursive life. To me, this is a form of ongoing storytelling.<\/p>\n

My offering, two pages of reading materials, will become a continuous story as readers make their own connections, pursue their own searches, and find themselves in the texts and systems of oppression, where they are complicit and where subjected.<\/p>\n

Looking back now, it would have been useful to include resources on how to go about this deconstruction. I am reminded of what bell hooks writes about the consciousness-building educators must embark on to cultivate a practice of love. A self-awareness of this kind imbues not only classrooms with care but also households and community spaces. It is my hope that all who attended the conference and all who did or may still look over the reading list will be able to curate spaces of care within themselves and with others, wherever they are.<\/p>\n

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The conference started off on a Friday night with a multi-media dance installation by Sydnie Mosley Dances. Dancers performed a choreopoem called \u201cPURPLE\u201d that invited attendees to begin thinking through the conference themes with interactive movement and reflection. It was the organizers\u2019 hope that this opening choreopoem would serve as the perfect precursor for the discussions to come, encouraging an opening of self and prompting the collective to hold together their lived experiences and positionalities within the frame of housing.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the program consisted of panels and workshops that linked together housing, public education, and healthcare. The speakers were long-time organizers involved in local and national coalitions, scholars and researchers, cultural workers, and artists. Through panels, films, and workshops, they addressed the interconnected systems, experiences, and histories that make up housing injustice while proposing modes for organizing from art-making to on-the-ground community work to policy change.<\/p>\n

The reading list below is composed of scholarly articles, reports, profiles, news snippets, books, and statements, many of which are written by or feature the conference\u2019s speakers. Materials vary in purpose. Some explore the correlation between housing market variability and displacement, and others construct frameworks for a forthcoming future characterized by what the conference refers to as a \u201cjust and equitable pursuit of home.\u201d Though the name of the conference suggests a singular focus on housing, the presenters and the reading list below look beyond housing commodification to examine its roots and prolific outgrowths.<\/p>\n

As I read and selected readings for this list, it was critical to me that the selected pieces foregrounded the affected lives and livelihoods of Black and Brown people, and chronicle the power of Black women-led organizing in this struggle, like the poor women from North America and Latin America who formed tenant organizations or neighborhood associations to protect their families and districts from developers and governments violence. These women are a living testament to Keisha Khan-Perry\u2019s proposed \u201cglobal sisterhood\u201d of Black feminist practice.<\/p>\n

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Ashe Lewis compiled the following reading list for the 48th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, Housing Justice \/ Housing Futures<\/a>. Download the PDF here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tiffany Babb, \u201cZine Librarian Jenna Freedman Chats about the Barnard Zine Library and Why Every Grrrl\u2019s Story Is Important,\u201d Popverse, November 14, 2022.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa Bates, \u201cAlbina Zone,\u201d <\/span>Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Memories of Abolition Day<\/span><\/i>, January 1, 2020.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa K. Bates, \u201cPost-Katrina Housing: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for African-Americans in New Orleans,\u201d <\/span>The Black Scholar<\/span><\/i> 36, no. 4 (December 2006): 13\u201331.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa K. Bates et al., \u201cRace and Spatial Imaginary,\u201d <\/span>Planning Theory & Practice<\/span><\/i> 19, no. 2 (March 15, 2018): 254\u201388.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Robert D. Bullard, <\/span>Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast<\/span><\/i>, 1st edition (Boulder, CO: Routledge, 2009).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Desiree Fields and Elora Lee Raymond, \u201cRacialized Geographies of Housing Financialization,\u201d <\/span>Progress in Human Geography<\/span><\/i> 45, no. 6 (December 1, 2021): 1625\u201345<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Randy Ford, \u201cCreating Better Housing Opportunities,\u201d accessed February 23, 2023<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Claudia Geib, \u201c\u2018The Return of Land to Indigenous People Is Key\u2019: Q&A with Shinnecock Kelp Farm\u2019s Tela Troge,\u201d Mongabay Environmental News, June 20, 2022<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tomashi Jackson and Eric Mack, <\/span>Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim<\/span><\/i>, ed. Corinne Erni et al. (Water Mill, New York: DelMonico Books\/Parrish Art Museum, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n

Lisa Lee, \u201cLisa Yun Lee: Ignoring the Need for Affordable Housing Is No Longer an Option \u2013 Chicago Tribune,\u201d accessed February 23, 2023<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa Lee, \u201cOpinion: America\u2019s Public Housing, As Told By Those Who Live There,\u201d City Limits, September 21, 2022<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Erin McElroy, \u201cProperty as Technology,\u201d <\/span>City<\/span><\/i> 24, no. 1\u20132 (March 3, 2020): 112\u201329<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tanaz Meghjani and Sam Rabiyah,\u201cTenants Urge State to Close the \u2018Frankenstein Loophole\u2019 That Landlords Use to Supersize Rents,\u201d The City, November 16, 2022.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Leo Owens, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Robert A. Brown, \u201c\u2018Let\u2019s Get Ready to Crumble\u2019: Black Municipal Leadership and Public Housing Transformation in the United States,\u201d <\/span>Urban Affairs Review<\/span><\/i> 57, no. 2 (March 1, 2021): 342\u201372<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, <\/span>Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil<\/span><\/i>, 1st edition (Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2013).<\/span><\/p>\n

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, \u201cHousing Justice in the Americas: Struggle and Solidarity,\u201d <\/span>NACLA Report on the Americas<\/span><\/i> 54, no. 3 (July 3, 2022): 237\u201339<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, \u201cSocial Memory and Black Resistance: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil,\u201d <\/span>The Latin Americanist<\/span><\/i> 49, no. 1 (2005): 7\u201338.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, \u201cThe Roots of Black Resistance: Race, Gender and the Struggle for Urban Land Rights in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil,\u201d <\/span>Social Identities<\/span><\/i> 10, no. 6 (November 1, 2004): 811\u201331<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Sam Rabiyah and Rachel Holliday Smith, \u201cIn Near-Daily Protests, Tenants Demand a Stop to Rent-Stabilized Apartment Vacancies,\u201d The City, November 3, 2022<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Elora Lee Raymond et al., \u201cFrom Foreclosure to Eviction: Housing Insecurity in Corporate-Owned Single-Family Rentals,\u201d <\/span>Cityscape<\/span><\/i> 20, no. 3 (2018): 159\u201388.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elora Lee Raymond et al., \u201cGentrifying Atlanta: Investor Purchases of Rental Housing, Evictions, and the Displacement of Black Residents,\u201d <\/span>Housing Policy Debate<\/span><\/i> 31, no. 3\u20135 (September 3, 2021): 818\u201334<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Akira Drake Rodriguez, <\/span>Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta\u2019s Public Housing<\/span><\/i> (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021).<\/span><\/p>\n

Akira Drake Rodriguez, \u201cHousing Preservation as a Means Toward Social Justice,\u201d <\/span>Housing Policy Debate<\/span><\/i> 29, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 146\u201347<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Akira Drake Rodriguez, \u201cThe Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915\u20132020,\u201d <\/span>Political Science Quarterly<\/span><\/i> 137, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 629\u201331<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Ananya Roy, and Chris Carlsson, <\/span>Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance<\/span><\/i>, Illustrated edition (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2021).<\/span><\/p>\n

Seyoung Sung and Lisa Bates, \u201cPreserving Housing Choice and Opportunity: A Study of Apartment Building Sales and Rents,\u201d <\/span>Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations<\/span><\/i>, November 1, 2017<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Vanessa Thill, \u201cLucid Gestures Digital Catalog,\u201d November 13, 2014<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Rhonda Y. Williams, <\/span>Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century<\/span><\/i>, 1st edition (New York: Routledge, 2014).<\/span><\/p>\n

Rhonda Y. Williams, \u201cRace, Dismantling the \u2018Ghetto,\u2019 and National Housing Mobility: Considering the Polikoff Proposal,\u201d <\/span>Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy<\/span><\/i> 1 (2006): 96\u2013109.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rhonda Y. Williams, <\/span>The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women\u2019s Struggles against Urban Inequality<\/span><\/i> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).<\/span><\/p>\n

Rhonda Y. Williams, \u201c\u2018We\u2019re Tired of Being Treated like Dogs\u2019: Poor Women and Power Politics in Black Baltimore,\u201d <\/span>The Black Scholar<\/span><\/i> 31, no. 3\u20134 (September 2001): 31\u201341<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Jo Yurcaba, \u201cDifferent Fight, \u2018Same Goal\u2019: How the Black Freedom Movement Inspired Early Gay Activists,\u201d NBC News, February 28, 2021<\/span>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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