Integrating the Inner City: the Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation by Robert J. Chaskin & Mark L. Joseph

Author:Robert J. Chaskin & Mark L. Joseph [Chaskin, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226303901
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

To many relocated public housing residents, this surveillance has a Panopticon quality, and many said they felt uncomfortable about its pervasiveness and the sense that their behavior was under constant scrutiny. As a public housing resident at Park Boulevard put it, “It’s like everything you do, they know about it.” And this in turn informs behavior—“govern[ing] people by getting them to govern themselves,” as Barbara Cruikshank puts it—very much in the mode of poverty governance discussed in chapter 2.32

In many cases, relocated public housing residents respond by trying to “blend in,” as one at Oakwood Shores explained: “I have found myself that when I talk to the people at market rent or homeowners, it will have to be on a different kind of behavior, and I think it’s just psychological, ’cause they don’t tell me to or ask me to, but I immediately want to impress them that, you know, I can blend over here with you all.”

In other cases, as we will explore below, residents either push back against what they see as unreasonable restrictions or, most commonly, withdraw and stake out a defensive position in these new communities.

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