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{"title":"<i>The great American transit disaster</i> , by Nicholas Dagen Bloom <b> <i>The great American transit disaster</i> </b> , by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2023","authors":"Dennis E. Gale","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2245307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2245307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135061041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Financing “climate-proof” housing? The premises and pitfalls of PACE finance in Florida","authors":"Zac J. Taylor, Sarah E. Knuth","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2247503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2247503","url":null,"abstract":"Amidst growing concerns about climate risks to the U.S. housing markets, strategies to physically retrofit homes are gaining attention—including within debates over how to resolve intersecting crises of housing re/insurability and affordability in highly exposed sites like Florida. We consider an important but under-studied example of this “climate-proofing” strategy unfolding today: Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) finance. While PACE has historically financed decarbonization retrofits, it is increasingly being deployed to facilitate hurricane risk reduction in Florida. In this paper, we introduce PACE: its basic characteristics, evolving uses, and controversies. Exploring the Florida case, we examine two deeper but as yet under-examined financial tensions: PACE’s intersections with other forms of property-linked finance (and potential systemic breakdowns) and rising affordability breakpoints as homeowners encounter its new debt amidst other growing and intersecting climate/climate response costs. These issues call for more transformative imaginaries of urban retrofitting and its resourcing.","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135397261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How pervasive is source of income discrimination faced by housing choice voucher households: Lessons from a progressive Midwestern city","authors":"Jerry Anthony, Parya Seif, Rachael Schaefer","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2245077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2245077","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTHousing Choice Voucher (HCV) recipients encounter many types of discrimination in the housing search process. Landlords could choose not to lease a home to HCV recipients merely because they are HCV recipients. While many forms of discrimination (such as discrimination because of race or gender) are proscribed by federal and state constitutions, discrimination based on source of income (such as paying rent using an HCV) is not banned by the federal constitution or by most state or local statutes. Discrimination faced for using an HCV makes the housing search process more complicated and time-consuming for HCV recipients, often restricting their housing options and resulting in sub-optimal housing choices. We report on the findings of a study exploring the relative magnitude of discrimination for using HCV compared to other types of discrimination among HCV recipients of a Midwestern public housing authority (PHA). We also report on how this source of income discrimination varies by race and other socioeconomic and demographic factors. Information for this study was collected by surveying all HCV families of this PHA using a mail-out/mail-back questionnaire. Our findings suggest that source-of-income discrimination is perhaps more pervasive than other common discriminatory factors. We conclude the paper by describing policy responses to our findings.KEYWORDS: Affordable housinginequalityrace Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Code of the City of Iowa City, Title 2 (Human Rights), Chapter 5 (Fair Housing).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJerry AnthonyJerry Anthony, PhD, FAICP, is an associate professor at the School of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Iowa. He has an undergraduate degree in Architecture, a graduate degree in Town Planning, and a PhD in Urban & Regional Planning. He researches U.S. housing policy issues, U.S. land policy issues, and international planning issues, particularly in South Asia. He is a co-founder of the Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County (https://www.htfjc.org/). He has developed several interactive online maps on housing issues; for example, a map depicting housing cost burdens in U.S. counties in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2015 can be found at http://ppc.uiowa.edu/housing/affordability. His research has been supported by many entities such as the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, The Brookings Institution, and the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Iowa in the United States. He was a Fulbright Scholar in India in 2023.Parya SeifParya Seif is an associate planner at the County of Santa Clara, Planning and Development Department. She is a certified quarry inspector and manager of the Tree Removal and Preservation Program at the County of Santa Clara. Parya got her Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa, and another Master’s degree in Arc","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135396870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gendering grassrootscapes: The sociospatial relations of lower working-class women dwelling in the socialist Workers’ New Villages in post-reform Shanghai","authors":"Penn Tsz Ting Ip, Tsung-yi Michelle Huang, Jing Wang","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2247502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2247502","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWomen of the lower working-class in Shanghai are seemingly invisible in Chinese urban scholarship. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 in Shanghai, this article sheds light on the social lives of lower working-class women dwelling in the Workers’ New Villages in the wake of rapid urbanization. Mounting a threefold conceptual exploration of grassroots urbanism, genderscapes, and guanxi (social connectivity), the article develops and coins the term grassrootscapes to explicate grassroots women’s sociospatial relations with housing units, the community, and the city. Probing these multi-layered horizons to trace women’s life trajectories and gendered experiences, the article discerns how sociospatial dynamics of grassrootscapes are produced under a socialist system, in which women’s day-to-day suffering is a by-product of market reforms. Socialist workers’ housing is employed as a case study to show how the conceptualization of grassrootscapes can be a useful tool to examine the social transformation brought about by the drastic changes in urban policies in globalizing cities.KEYWORDS: Chinagenderurbanization AcknowledgmentsThe authors sincerely thank our research participants and local officials for their time and support, making this research possible. The authors also wish to express their gratefulness to the editors and reviewers for their insightful comments. Last, we must thank Professor Linda Peake for her enormous support of this work.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. This research is part of a transnational research project, “Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network” (GenUrb) (Principal Investigator: Linda Peake), which focuses on grassroots women living in six selected cities in the Global South including Cochabamba, Delhi, Georgetown (Guyana), Ibadan, Ramallah, and Shanghai (https://genurb.apps01.yorku.ca).2. This article purposely uses the term housing unit instead of apartment (gongyu), as an apartment is a housing type commonly known as commodity housing (shangpinfang) and thus is discursively attached to the new urban middle-class.3. To protect the confidentiality of the women and their families, we decided to use pseudonyms, and the community is renamed Community X to ensure their anonymity.4. Since the post-reform period began, people with life-threatening illnesses have also had to endure heavy medical costs due to the marketization of medical and health care, hence the common phrase, “falling into poverty due to illness” (yinbing zhipin).5. The inductive coding process yielded 30 parent-codes and over 200 child-codes.Additional informationFundingThis research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant, “Urbanization, gender and the global south: A transformative knowledge network” [File number 895-2017-1011; PI: Linda Peake].Notes on contributorsPenn Tsz T","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135397259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Not gentrification, not touristification: Short-term rentals as a housing assetisation strategy","authors":"Javier Gil","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2242532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2242532","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid growth of short-term rentals (STRs) is leading researchers to frame these urban transformations indifferently as gentrification, touristification or tourism gentrification. This paper proposes that these concepts, though closely related, are not best suited to explain the urban transformations created by STRs. Using a theoretical and empirical approach, it attempts to delve into this theoretical debate. Since housing assetization is what ultimately drives the process, STRs should be framed as a specific form of housing assetization. It is suggested that the term that best captures this urban accumulation strategy and has greater explanatory power is that of STR housing assetization. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to theoretically justify the suitability of the STR housing assetization concept and specify its particularities as an urban accumulation strategy. Secondly, this accumulation strategy can be empirically observed by analyzing how STR markets develop in particular cities. For this purpose, the Spanish city of Valencia has been chosen.","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Comparative urbanism: Tactics for global urban studies</i>, by Jennifer Robinson","authors":"Richardson Dilworth","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2245306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2245306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Handbook of megacities and megacity-regions</i>, edited by Danielle Labbé and André Sorensen","authors":"Russell J. Fricano","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2243767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2243767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Touristification and urban extractivism in Latin American destinations: Heritage and conflicts in Antigua Guatemala (Guatemala) and Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)","authors":"Nicolás Alberto Trivi, Florencia Viviana Moscoso, Ninfa Mariela Morales Blanco","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2242535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2242535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Low value and hard to stack: Opportunity zones and the low-income housing tax credit","authors":"Michael Snidal, Tyler Haupert, Guanglai Li","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2245076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2245076","url":null,"abstract":"Established in 2017, Opportunity Zones (OZs) promised to spur investment in undercapitalized communities. Early evaluations find that OZs have had nominal effects on employment and real estate outcomes. Distressed community development, however, has historically been driven by affordable housing production. Conceptually, developers can stack OZs with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the nation’s largest program for affordable housing. Therefore, this study seeks to estimate whether OZs have increased affordable housing production. First, we scan press announcements and OZ-tracking websites through July 2022 to document evidence of OZ-financed affordable housing. Second, we use a difference-in-differences approach to compare LIHTC outcomes through 2018 in OZs with areas that were OZ-eligible but not designated. We find only 60 examples of OZs supporting affordable housing projects across the country. We also find that OZs do not have statistically significant effects on LIHTC outcomes. We document findings from 16 interviews conducted in 2019 and 2020 to contextualize why OZs are failing to stimulate affordable housing production. In conclusion, we discuss how OZs could be modified to better encourage affordable housing, but we also reflect on whether such modifications would be desirable for goals of efficiency and distressed community development.","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135979602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Over 40 years of shaping global urban research: The <i>Journal of Urban Affairs</i>, 1979–2021","authors":"Igor Vojnovic, Laurie A. Schintler","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2235036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2235036","url":null,"abstract":"After 5 decades of the Urban Affairs Association, more than 4 decades of the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA), and with the departure of an editorial team, this seems an opportune moment to assess the contribution made by the journal to the field of urban affairs. This paper takes both an historical and analytical approach to this evaluation, detailing the institutional challenges associated with the journal’s production, coupled with identification of key themes in its catalog of papers. The historical exploration of defining articles and notable authors provides a retrospective of the key urban issues that have defined the JUA over the last 4 decades. We also undertake a content analysis of the JUA, utilizing Web of Science data, which dates back to 1993. This bibliometric analysis sheds further light on influential JUA authors, articles and topics, as well as key conceptual, intellectual, and social patterns and trends in the journal over the last four decades.","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135979609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}