GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Supremacy, Commodification
22 Dec 2020
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Michelle padley: housing in an unequal world: inequalities, 2014 report: there are currently 300 million households unable to find affordable housing. Us: nearly half of all rural renters are paying unreasonable/unaffordable prices for housing. How housing problems in different countries are connected by global processes. Housing inequality comes from the common root of conflict through the use of living. Commodity: something that is bought and sold and traded rather than used. Housing has become more important as a commodity than as a useful. Apartheid: system of white supremacy that institutionalized racial segregation in space for living and providing shelter. Idea that social issues like these are reproducing themselves in housing issues today. South african spatial apartheid is connecting the history of apartheid into the modern context of housing inequality. Home ownership patterns are reproducing racial hierarchies. Links to the foundations of slavery and colonialism because of systematic mapping of housing areas. How protection of housing becomes a tool for profit.
