Heavy is the House: Rent Burden among the American Urban Poor
Heavy is the House: Rent Burden among the American Urban Poor
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DOI：
10.1111/1468-2427.12529
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Desmond, Matthew
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作者：
Desmond, Matthew
在过去十年中，美国穷人的收入下降或持平，住房成本飙升，公共政策未能弥合差距。因此，美国大多数贫穷的租房家庭现在将至少一半的收入用于支付住房费用，驱逐已成为他们生活中常见但后果重大的事件。虽然住房是城市穷人生活的核心，但它在美国不平等的社会学中仍然处于边缘地位。本文首先描绘了低收入家庭日益增长的租金负担，然后借鉴皮埃尔·布尔迪厄对住房研究的独特贡献，勾勒出分析城市负担得起的住房丧失的根源和影响的议程，这是提供政策处方的先决条件。
During the past decade, the incomes of poor Americans have fallen or flat-lined, housing costs have soared and public policy has failed to bridge the gap. As a result, the majority of poor renting families in America now devote at least half of their income to covering housing costs, and eviction has become a common yet consequential event in their lives. While housing is central to the lives of the urban poor, it remains marginal to the sociology of American inequality. This essay begins by charting the growing rent burden among low-income households, and then draws on the unique contributions of Pierre Bourdieu to the study of the home to sketch an agenda for analyzing the roots and implications of the loss of affordable urban housing, a prerequisite for offering policy prescriptions.