Lexington Books
Pages: 174
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-7936-3648-5 • Hardback • October 2021 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
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Randolph Hohle is associate professor of sociology at SUNY-Fredonia.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 2: Urban Citizenship, The Privilege of Mobility, and the Affordable Housing Debates
Chapter 3: Making Housing Affordable
Chapter 4: The Undoing: Affordable Housing in the Neoliberal Era
Chapter 5: America’s Housing Question in the 21st Century
Conclusion
References
About the Author
Randy Hohle explains, in clear and engaging language, why housing in the US is becoming ever more unaffordable. He presents the long history of housing exclusion that targeted Black people and the more recent effects of financialization and speculation that have severed the protections white people won through racist laws and practices and with government subsidies. If you want to understand how we reached this point and what can be done to make affordable housing accessible to all, you should read this book.
— Richard Lachmann, SUNY Albany
Sociologist Randy Hohle offers a critical take on our longstanding “affordable housing” crisis as always about systemic racism. Historically, white framing coded private-housing-white and public-housing-black, making the latter unacceptable and ensuring whites’ right to segregation from African Americans. After 1960s desegregation, whites still accented public-as-black but sought to privatize some public housing while maintaining their "right" to racially segregate. Hohle concludes with savvy solutions for the housing crisis requiring an end to racist white-privatization logic.
— Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University