RCN: Housing Justice in Unequal Cities

该奖项将支持建立一个研究协调网络（RCN），以解决各种城市的住房危机。 该网络将推动对与住房不稳定性有关的相互关联的过程的研究，如驱逐、无家可归和流离失所，并计划结合各种形式的隔离和歧视来研究这些问题。 RCN填补了研究的空白，系统地分析社区和政策反应，寻求通过法律的框架，土地和住房的合作模式，以及集体行动创造住房机会和住房正义。 RCN的一个重要方面是在社会运动，大学和政策的交叉点进行协调。 区域协调网络密切关注住房运动和政策干预，将把住房公正的主要模式及其概念基础综合成一本住房公正手册，广泛散发。 重点暑期学院与一个不同的学者群体看住房问题将在各种设置举行。 通过整合来自各种背景和环境的经验，该RCN将在美国产生新形式的大学-社区伙伴关系和参与研究，重点关注边缘化社会群体的经验。 该RCN建立了一个跨国，跨学科和代际合作，以解决与空间排斥有关的分析和方法问题。 它跨越了住房研究的各个孤岛，并将住房与地理调查、监狱地理和土地剥夺等其他两个相关领域联系起来。 在这样做的过程中，它建立了数据收集，数据可视化和故事映射工具，可以捕捉住房不稳定性的复杂时空地理。 通过开发新的研究传播和教学方法，将全球南方的知识生产关键节点与全球北方的知识生产关键节点联系起来，它促进了学习的关键地理区域。 这种方法通过比较揭示了美国住房危机的新情况，并展示了土地和住房的社会功能如何在具有长期空间不平等历史的其他民主背景下得到解决。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support the establishment of a research coordination network (RCN) to address the housing crisis in a variety of cities. The network will advance research on the interconnected processes related to the precarious nature of housing such as evictions, homelessness and displacement, and plans to study them in tandem with forms of segregation and discrimination. The RCN fills a gap in research by systematically analyzing community and policy responses that seek to create housing access and housing justice through legal frameworks, cooperative models of land and housing, and collective action. An important aspect of the RCN is its coordination at the intersection of social movements, universities, and policy. Paying close attention to housing movements and policy interventions, the RCN will synthesize the primary modalities of housing justice and its conceptual underpinnings into a Housing Justice Handbook that will be broadly disseminated. Focused Summer Institutes with a diverse group of scholars looking at housing issues will be held in a variety of settings. By integrating experience from a variety of contexts and settings, this RCN will generate new formats of university-community partnerships and engaged research in the United States focused on the experiences of marginalized social groups. This RCN builds a transnational, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational collaboration to tackle analytical and methodological problems pertaining to spatial exclusion. It cuts across various silos of housing research and links housing to two other relevant realms of geographic inquiry, carceral geographies, and land dispossession. In doing so, it builds data collection, data visualization, and story mapping tools that can capture the complex space-time geographies of housing precarity. By developing novel methods of research dissemination and pedagogy that link key nodes of knowledge production in the Global South with those in the Global North, it fosters critical geographies of learning. Such an approach sheds new light on the housing crisis in the United States through comparison and demonstrates how the social function of land and housing is being addressed in other democratic contexts with long histories of spatial inequality.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.