J. Blosnich, K. Rodriguez, Kristina L Hruska, G. Klima, Jesse K. Vazzano, J. Shipherd, M. Kauth, A. Montgomery
{"title":"“Get people out of bad situations sooner”: exploring transgender and cisgender veterans’ experiences using permanent supportive housing","authors":"J. Blosnich, K. Rodriguez, Kristina L Hruska, G. Klima, Jesse K. Vazzano, J. Shipherd, M. Kauth, A. Montgomery","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2020.1716537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2020.1716537","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Transgender veterans are more likely than non-transgender (i.e., cisgender) veterans to experience housing instability, and they may experience unique challenges in accessing permanent supportive housing (PSH). The objective of this study was to explore transgender and cisgender veterans’ experiences utilizing PSH through the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program. Between February and May 2018, 48 veterans (14 cisgender women, 17 cisgender men, 17 transgender individuals) completed an audio-recorded, semi-structured telephone interviews; all transgender individuals self-identified as transgender women. We used rapid identification of themes from audio recordings (RITA) to analyze the data. Half of the participants had been in HUD-VASH one to three years. Most respondents cited their case manager as a key facilitator in successfully becoming housed and identified lack of understanding the HUD-VASH admission processes and wait times as common barriers to housing. Other challenges included veterans’ inability to receive services until they were homeless and landlords’ reluctance to rent to veterans with histories of substance use. Transgender women veterans conveyed unique challenges related to sex-specific shelter experiences and incongruence of identification cards and gender expression.","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"47 1","pages":"103 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2020.1716537","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47134802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The right to housing in an ownership society","authors":"Casey J. Dawkins","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2020.1722055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2020.1722055","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The last decade has seen the rise of a new alliance among U.S. housing advocates, human rights advocates, and right to the city advocates that stands unified in opposition to rising rents, gentrification, evictions, and the criminalization of homelessness. In contrast to earlier housing movements that often diverged over the question of means, this new “housing justice” alliance has the potential to unify housing advocates under the big tent of a cosmopolitan human right to housing and a collective right to the city. This paper provides a critique of the normative conception of justice implied by the contemporary American housing justice movement. I argue that while rights offer a compelling moral foundation for housing policy reform, the most defensible conception of the right to housing is one grounded in the individual right of social citizenship. I argue that the right to housing should be understood as a right that is constitutive of, rather than in opposition to, the right to own property. When the collective right to the city conflicts with or fails to support the right to housing, I argue that housing advocates should prioritize the right to housing over the right to the city.","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"47 1","pages":"102 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2020.1722055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45570764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Aplin, S. Canagasuriam, Maree Petersen, L. Gustafsson
{"title":"The experience of home for social housing tenants with a disability: security and connection but limited control","authors":"T. Aplin, S. Canagasuriam, Maree Petersen, L. Gustafsson","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2019.1697606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1697606","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research exploring the meaning of home is well established; however, limited attention has been paid to contexts outside of western, owner-occupied homes. One context which requires further investigation is the experience of home for adults with disability living in social housing. This study aimed to investigate this experience in Australia. Fifteen households participated in in-depth interviews. Two themes “home is still home” and “loss of control” emerged from the thematic analysis. Participants described their homes’ as providing security, stability and a sense of “home”, but many also experienced limited control over the location, condition, and modification and maintenance of their home. The study highlights the importance of secure tenure, the need to support people with a disability during housing transitions, and the impact of policy on the experience of home. Ongoing research on the impact of housing policies on the lives of people with a disability will be key to improved policy.","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"47 1","pages":"63 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2019.1697606","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44902224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca J. Walter, Gregg Colburn, Anaid Yerena, Melony Pederson, Rachel Fyall, K. Crowder
{"title":"Constraints and opportunities for innovation in the Moving to Work Demonstration Program","authors":"Rebecca J. Walter, Gregg Colburn, Anaid Yerena, Melony Pederson, Rachel Fyall, K. Crowder","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2019.1706067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1706067","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program provides participating housing agencies with additional programmatic and operational flexibility that is used to achieve Congress’s statutory goals. The MTW Demonstration Program is designed to provide agencies with the flexibility to pursue innovative activities, yet there are myriad constraints that alter the behavior of these agencies. This study uses evidence generated from interviews with personnel from MTW agencies to understand how they use MTW to address and overcome bureaucratic, resource, and market constraints to further their mission. The findings from this study enhance our understanding of MTW agencies, their decision-making, and how they innovate in a constrained environment. These results are relevant to a wide audience, including existing MTW agencies, public housing authorities that are considering MTW designation under the new expansion, housing researchers, as well as policymakers and practitioners who focus on federal housing policy and innovation in public agencies.","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"47 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2019.1706067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48978457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring aging in place inquiry through the lens of resilience theory","authors":"Gloria E. Stafford, G. Gulwadi","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2019.1689088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1689088","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many late-life older adults prefer remaining in one’s home among familiar and comforting surroundings until life’s end. However, this may be a challenging pursuit due to accelerating physical and cognitive declines. Researchers, designers, and care providers grapple to identify strategies which best support aging in place. Resilience theory offers a new lens which has not been explored by previous researchers. Through observations and interviews, we explored what adaptive qualities and actions ten late-life older adults utilized to age in place. Results show that the interviewees applied personal resilience across a range of challenges. We discuss vignettes within a framework of established theories which address successful alignment of person-environment (P-E) transactions and situate our findings within foundational and nascent explorations of resilience theory. We explore the need to investigate resilience as a distinguishable personal factor which greatly impacts late-life aging in place. Because resilience includes protective factors as well as adaptive processes, it adds to the current discourse of how resilient late-life older adults utilize personal agency and goal direction to proactively sustain daily living at home. Finally, we propose the term habitational resilience to encompass the connection between personal adaptiveness and resulting effective interactions within the home environment.","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"47 1","pages":"42 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2019.1689088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47299690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Winning in a “lose-lose” environment of economic development: housing, community empowerment, and neighborhood redevelopment in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC","authors":"Kathryn L. Howell","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2019.1697090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1697090","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Economic development is often billed as the basis and justification for neighborhood revitalization in low-income communities, bringing with it new jobs, amenities, and residents. Best practices in local housing policy suggest that inclusionary zoning can be a remedy to the increasing home prices and rents resulting from the changing demographics. However, inclusionary zoning remedies have been largely insufficient and remain part of a negotiated package of community benefits that do not reflect that collective agency of the existing community. This paper examines how tenant-centered affordable housing and community-based planning can provide a useful counter-narrative to the economic development and community benefits stories of the back-to-the city era urban redevelopment in Washington, DC. While DC has developed progressive laws and resources to enable low-income residents to remain in their communities, the fast-moving market has exposed conflicts between social and economic goals. Using the example of neighborhood revitalization efforts in Washington, DC, I examine the often-conflicting how economic development goals interact with community empowerment and the mechanisms to enable community control that change how residents experience revitalization.","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"47 1","pages":"22 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2019.1697090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46384166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. McDaniel, Alyssa Mayer, R. Mcdermott, D. Albright, Hee Yun Lee, Eva Harara
{"title":"Service member and veteran mental distress rates and military-civilian residential segregation in South Carolina counties","authors":"J. McDaniel, Alyssa Mayer, R. Mcdermott, D. Albright, Hee Yun Lee, Eva Harara","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2019.1668224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1668224","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We examine service member/veteran (SMV) mental distress rates in South Carolina counties and military-civilian residential segregation (MCRS). In phase one of our analysis, we utilized small area estimation (SAE) via a generalized-linear mixed model (GLMM) to calculate the probability of mental distress rates among SMVs, using individual-level data from the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). We applied these probabilities to demographic population counts (i.e. age by race by sex by military status) prepared at the county level by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in order to develop rates of SMV mental distress for each county. In phase two, we used these calculated mental distress rates and block-group-level 2013–2017 five-year American Community Survey (ACS) data to calculate MCRS for counties and to assess the relationship between SMV mental distress rates and MCRS. Phase one results showed that the average predicted mental distress rate among SMVs was 9.33 percent, although we found geographic variation across counties. Phase two results showed that the average mental distress rate was higher in counties with high compared to low MCRS (9.58 vs. 9.22) (Cohen’s d = 0.62). Social connection opportunities for SMVs and civilians are needed where high MCRS occurs.","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"157 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2019.1668224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45571229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to housing","authors":"G. Peek","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2019.1664503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1664503","url":null,"abstract":"Why do people care about housing? A better question may be, what is a house? In brief, the answer depends on how the house is viewed. Introduction to Housing, edited by Katrin B. Anacker, Andrew T. Carswell, Sarah D. Kirby, and Kenneth R. Tremblay, provides insight about housing from the perspective of an individual, neighborhood, city, or society. The book provides a detailed discussion of housing market challenges in the U.S. and limited insight about international housing. The editors conclude that our understanding of housing will change in the future, as well.","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"170 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2019.1664503","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49047363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fight for fair housing: causes, consequences, and future implications of the 1968 federal fair housing act","authors":"Sung-Jin Lee","doi":"10.1080/08882746.2019.1683316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1683316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52110,"journal":{"name":"Housing and Society","volume":"19 2","pages":"175 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08882746.2019.1683316","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41278106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}