Sociology of Housing

Brian J. McCabe is associate professor of sociology at Georgetown University and an affiliated faculty member at the McCourt School of Public Policy. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership. Eva Rosen is associate professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and an affiliated faculty member in the department of sociology. She is the author of The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood.

“In The Sociology of Housing, McCabe and Rosen push housing research from the background to the foreground of so many core sociological questions about how we structure society and interact with one another. This volume offers an expert syllabus on housing for academics, students, and practitioners. There is no book like it, and it will stand as the reference tool for decades to come.”

• Introduction. How Homes Shape Our Social LivesBrian J. McCabe, Georgetown University; Eva Rosen, Georgetown UniversityPart I: Mechanisms of Housing Inequality1. Housing as Capital: US Policy, Homeownership, and the Racial Wealth GapZawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, University of Albany2. Latino Homeownership: Opportunities and Challenges in the Twenty-First CenturyAllen Hyde, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary J. Fischer, University of Connecticut3. Latinos’ Housing Inequality: Local Historical Context and the Relational Formation of SegregationMaría G. Rendón, University of California, Irvine; Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Michigan State University; Maya Parvati Kulkarni, University of California, Irvine4. The Renaissance Comes to the Projects: Public Housing Policy, Race, and Urban Redevelopment in BaltimorePeter Rosenblatt, Loyola University Chicago5. Unsettling Native Land: Indigenous Perspectives on HousingJennifer Darrah-Okike, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Lorinda Riley, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Philip M. E. Garboden, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Nathalie Rita, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa6. Affordable Housing Is Public Health: How Landlords Struggle to Contain America’s Lead Poisoning CrisisMatthew H. McLeskey, SUNY Oswego7. Audit Studies of Housing Discrimination: Established, Emerging, and Future ResearchS. Michael Gaddis, University of California, Los Angeles; Nicholas V. DiRago, University of California, Los AngelesPart II: Housing Insecurity and Instability8. Centering the Institutional Life of EvictionKyle Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael C. Lens, University of California, Los Angeles9. Manufactured Housing in the US: A Critical Affordable Housing InfrastructureEsther Sullivan, University of Colorado, Denver10. Shared Housing and Housing InstabilityHope Harvey, University of Kentucky; Kristin L. Perkins, Georgetown University11. Informal Housing in the US: Variation and Inequality among Squatters in DetroitClaire Herbert, University of Oregon12. Housing Deprivation: Homelessness and the Reproduction of PovertyChris Herring, Harvard UniversityPart III: Housing Markets and Housing Supply13. Housing Supply as a Social ProcessJoe LaBriola, Brown University14. Housing Market IntermediariesElizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of New Mexico; Robin Bartram, Tulane University; Max Besbris, University of Wisconsin–Madison15. Housing in the Context of Neighborhood DeclineSharon Cornelissen, Harvard University; Christine Jang-Trettien, Princeton University16. Learning from Short-Term Rentals’ “Disruptions” Krista E. Paulsen, Boise State University17. Moving Beyond “Good Landlord, Bad Landlord”: A Theoretical Investigation of Exploitation in HousingPhilip M. E. Garboden, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa18. How We Pay to House Each OtherIsaac William Martin, University of California, San DiegoPart IV: Housing, Racial Segregation, and Inequality19. The Future of Segregation Studies: Questions, Challenges, and OpportunitiesJacob William Faber, New York University20. Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Residential Mobility among Housing Choice Voucher HoldersErin Carll, University of Washington; Hannah Lee, University of Washington; Chris Hess, Kennesaw State University; Kyle Crowder, University of Washington21. All in the Family: Social Connections and the Cycle of SegregationMaximilian Cuddy, University of Illinois, Chicago; Amy Spring, Georgia State University; Maria Krysan, University of Illinois, Chicago; Kyle Crowder, University of Washington22. Policing, Property, and the Production of Racial SegregationRahim Kurwa, University of Illinois, Chicago23. Criminal Justice Contact and Housing InequalityBrielle Bryan, Rice University; Temi Alao, University of Florida24. The Housing Divide in the Global SouthMarco Garrido, University of ChicagoWorks CitedIndex