RUI: Collaborative Proposal: Gatekeeping Communities: The Role of Landlords in Neighborhood Change and Gentrification

RUI：协作提案：把关社区：房东在社区变革和绅士化中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
1823618
负责人：
Melody Boyd
金额：
$ 5.69万
依托单位：
SUNY College at Brockport
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-07-01 至 2023-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823618&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
RUI Collaborative Proposal Gatekeeping Communities

项目摘要

During the last few decades there has been an increase in gentrification in urban areas in the United States, as well as increasing economic inequality. In addition, there is not enough affordable housing to meet demand. The Great Recession exacerbated this problem, tightening an already constrained housing market for renters. Landlords play a significant role in providing or prohibiting access to housing as cities gentrify and rental housing markets become more challenging. This project studies how landlords operate under these conditions. The project addresses the following research questions: How do landlords make sense of their role in both residential and commercial contexts? In what ways do landlords amplify or counter neighborhood changes associated with gentrification? How do the actions or inactions of landlords affect access to neighborhoods for various social groups? Understanding how landlords make sense of and react to neighborhood changes associated with gentrification, and the impact of this on including or excluding various demographic groups, will allow for increased understanding of the factors that shape racial and economic residential segregation in the United States. Project findings will have implications for housing policies in the United States. Research on gentrification theorizes that landlords are part of the gentrification process, but few studies have provided empirical evidence to analyze these claims. The focus of most gentrification research has been on the experiences of residents (both new and long-time residents)while analyses of landlords in gentrifying neighborhoods have been sparse. This project will address this gap by analyzing how both residential and commercial landlords understand their roles in the context of neighborhood changes associated with gentrification. The primary data for this project will come from 50 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with landlords and property managers in four gentrifying neighborhoods in a large northeastern U.S. city. The project will include property managers because they occupy a unique position as intermediaries between landlords and tenants in the rental housing relationship. In addition, in order to better understand the day-to-day activities of rental property maintenance and upkeep, the project incorporates ethnographic fieldwork as a means of triangulating the interview data. The ethnographic component of the research project involves performing the duties of a maintenance technician for a large rental real estate company. This project will contribute to scholarship by addressing the gap in research on landlords, analyzing whether landlords act as gatekeepers in both residential and commercial real estate transactions, and by utilizing a strategy of participant observation with landlords, allowing for firsthand observation of their investment, maintenance, and rental agreement practices.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.

在过去的几十年中，美国城市地区的绅士化增加了，以及增加的经济不平等。此外，没有足够的负担得起的住房来满足需求。巨大的衰退加剧了这个问题，收紧了租房者已经受到限制的住房市场。随着城市高档化和租赁住房市场的挑战，房东在提供或禁止住房的机会方面发挥了重要作用。该项目研究了房东如何在这些条件下运作。该项目解决了以下研究问题：房东如何在住宅和商业环境中有意义？房东会以什么方式扩大与绅士化相关的邻里变化？房东的行动或无动行动如何影响各种社会群体的居民区？了解房东如何对与绅士化相关的社区变化有意义和反应，以及这对包括或排除各种人口群体的影响，将使人们对塑造美国种族和经济居民隔离的因素的了解增加。项目发现将对美国的住房政策产生影响。关于高档化的研究理论认为房东是绅士化过程的一部分，但是很少有研究提供了分析这些主张的经验证据。大多数高档化研究的重点是居民（包括新居民和长期居民）的经历，而对绅士社区的房东进行的分析很少。该项目将通过分析住宅和商业房东如何在与高档化相关的邻里变化的背景下了解其角色，以解决这一差距。该项目的主要数据将来自50个深入的半结构化访谈，与美国东北部大型城市的四个高档化社区的房东和房地产经理进行。该项目将包括房地产经理，因为他们占据了房东与房客之间的中介人的独特地位。此外，为了更好地了解租赁物业维护和维护的日常活动，该项目将民族志现场工作作为三角调节访谈数据的一种手段。研究项目的民族志组成部分涉及为一家大型租赁房地产公司执行维护技术人员的职责。该项目将通过解决房东研究的差距，分析房东是否在住宅和商业房地产交易中作为守门人，并利用与房东的参与者观察的策略，允许对他们的投资，维护和租赁协议的奖励。基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评论标准。