RCN: Housing Justice in Unequal Cities

该奖项将支持建立一个研究协调网络（RCN），以解决各个城市的住房危机。该网络将推动对诸如驱逐、无家可归和流离失所等与住房不稳定性质有关的相互关联过程的研究，并计划将其与各种形式的隔离和歧视一并研究。RCN通过系统地分析社区和政策反应来填补研究空白，这些反应寻求通过法律框架、土地和住房合作模式以及集体行动来创造住房机会和住房正义。RCN的一个重要方面是它在社会运动、大学和政策的交叉点进行协调。RCN密切关注住房动向和政策干预，将把住房司法的主要模式及其概念基础综合成一本将广泛散发的《住房司法手册》。将在不同的环境中举办重点暑期学院，由不同的学者组成，研究住房问题。通过整合来自各种背景和环境的经验，这个RCN将产生大学-社区伙伴关系的新形式，并在美国开展专注于边缘化社会群体经验的研究。这个RCN建立了一个跨国的、跨学科的、代际的合作，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领域，并将住房与地理调查的其他两个相关领域联系起来，即地理地理和土地剥夺。在此过程中，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，将全球南方与全球北方的知识生产关键节点联系起来，它促进了关键的学习地理。这种方法通过比较为美国的住房危机提供了新的视角，并展示了在其他长期存在空间不平等的民主背景下，土地和住房的社会功能是如何得到解决的。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.