Deconcentration by Demolition: Public Housing, Poverty, and Urban Policy
Deconcentration by Demolition: Public Housing, Poverty, and Urban Policy
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10.1068/d306
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2002-10
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J. Crump
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J. Crump
在20世纪90年代，地方和联邦城市政策制定者、新自由主义政治家和穷人的拥护者达成了广泛的共识：低收入少数民族居民在地理上集中在位于市中心的公共住房项目中，这是美国城市面临的根本问题。因此，为了解决据称与贫困空间集中有关的问题，必须拆除低收入者集中在内城的公共住房，并将居民重新安置。在本文中，我认为，这种联邦公共住房政策是基于一个概念上的空间的作用和空间对贫困和穷人的行为的影响的理解不足。空间隐喻的使用，如“贫困集中”或“穷人分散”掩盖了贫困背后的社会和政治进程，并有助于为复杂的社会，经济和政治问题提供简单的空间解决方案。
During the 1990s, local and federal urban policymakers, neoliberal politicians, and advocates for the poor came to a broad consensus: the geographic concentration of low-income, minority residents in public housing projects located in the inner city constitutes the fundamental problem facing US cities. Accordingly, to solve the problems allegedly associated with the spatial concentration of poverty, public housing, which concentrates low-income people in the inner city, must be demolished and the residents relocated. In this paper I argue that such federal public housing policies are based on a conceptually inadequate understanding of the role of space and of spatial influences on poverty and on the behavior of poor people. The use of spatial metaphors such as the ‘concentration of poverty’ or the ‘deconcentration of the poor’ disguises the social and political processes behind poverty and helps to provide the justification for simplistic spatial solutions to complex social, economic, and political problems.