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The Role of Public, Private, Non-profit and Community Sectors in Shaping Mixed-income Housing Outcomes in the US

Department of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody 90, 230 Apple-ton Place, Nashville, TN 37203-5721, USA, pavement{at}vanderbilt.edu

Edward L. Kick

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Harrelson Hall, Campus Box 8107, Raleigh, NC 27695-8107, USA, elkick{at}sa.ncsu.edu

Since the 1990s, public policy-makers in the US have renewed support for mixed-income housing development as a means towards inner-city neighbourhood revitalisation and poverty amelioration. Yet, research to date finds that, while these mixed-income developments have promoted neighbourhood revitalisation, they have accomplished less for people in these areas who live in poverty. This paper theorises about the conditions that may in principle lead to these alternative outcomes. The approach emphasises the continuity in goal sets and capacities among four sets of urban actors—investors, local government, non-profits and community residents. To examine extant theory and an alternative model, case study evidence is offered from two comparable cities with different mixed-income initiatives and different configurations of goals and capacities among the four stakeholder groups. It is found that place-based outcomes (i.e. neighbourhood revitalisation) from mixed-income efforts hinge on the continuity of goals and effective capacities of investors, government and non-profits, but not community residents. It is also found that, with or without goal consonance and capacity, existing residents are relatively underserved by mixed-income initiatives while other stakeholders realise a variety of benefits.

Urban Studies, Vol. 44, No. 12, 2357-2377 (2007)
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701540952


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