GEOG 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: National Association Of Realtors, Commodification
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Leilani faha (represent of the un) --> she is particularly concerned with the housing market. Finds that dehumanized housing is fueling racial and social polarization. Essentially want the state to get back into the housing market. Residential alienation: all the social services that are considered to be vital and essential to keep a community going, is no longer affordable or available near the residents. Vacated neighborhoods, where it is empty houses right next to each other with no neighbors. Essentially when all the houses are bought as assets, so they are no longer actual communities. Housing and the way society organizes it reveals existing class structures and class relationships. However, it is a long-term goal to manage housing social order. Marx attempts to explain the theory of walking to people --> essentially people knew how to walk but they didn"t know the.
