GEO 3611 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Affordable Housing, Context-Dependent Memory, Green Building
27 Nov 2017
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I apologize for missing the first few slides. I heard he talked about how some areas and environments just call for poor, unaffordable housing. Compositional effects: rationale for studying individual inequalities influence locational risk factors and outcomes. Contextual effects: rationale for studying locational/environmental differences (example of this, seattle can have poor environment. Contextualists would say that it is because of pollution and weather differences and overall factors, like seattle is a bad place. For example, if they bring richer people into the environment, it would improve the poorer environment. It can improve health of home owners: provides greater residential stability, owning a home contributes to overall human health. He says if one is expected to not afford their home (why they may live in a cheap one), they probably (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t take (cid:272)a(cid:396)e of the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es (cid:449)ell. They p(cid:396)o(cid:271)a(cid:271)ly (cid:373)o(cid:448)e ofte(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of u(cid:374)affo(cid:396)da(cid:271)le housi(cid:374)g. Who you are is where you live, he says, as what society expects.
