Policy
What was the first housing policy by the government and what did it aim to solve?
The Federal Public Housing Act of 1937 signed by FDR Housing Act of 1937. To provide decent housing and support families.
To help employ people. To provide housing security after the war.
What assumptions does the One Strike/ Extension Act of 1996 make about people? How was it implemented?
Individuals are to blame for crime and families are held accountable for crime in their neighborhood and homes.
Screenings, surveillance, and evictions.
Other thoughts?
These local agencies were responsible for the housing policy’s local implementation, including establishing working agreements with local law enforcement agencies.
What are public housing authorities (PHAs)?
A straightforward policy that ensures that public housing residents who engage in illegal drug use or other criminal activities on or off public housing property face swift and certain eviction.
What is the One Strike You're Out Policy?
How has the Housing Act of 1937 and One Strike Act functioned differently over time?
It has changed from poverty to a punitive system - penal welfare.
Under the One Strike/ Extension Act of 1996, who is deserving and who is not deserving?
Criminals are not deserving of housing.
Families who follow the law deserve peaceful and enjoyment of public housing.
Other thoughts?
This hidden agenda was created as a result of the Federal housing Act of 1937-
What is segregation?
This policy allowed PHAs to terminate resident leases for drug related or criminal activities.
What is the Anti- Drug Act of 1988?
What assumption does the Fair Housing Act of 1967 make about its people and polity?
That all people are deserving
How many families under the "on or off" clause of the One Strike Policy/Extension Act of 1996 were displaced from their homes (evicted)? Where did they go and what resources were they offered?
There is no data. HUD did not require PHA's to keep track or record this data.
The act of marking neighborhoods as high risk for lending which limited who was deserving to buy homes.
What is red-lining?
This policy held family members accountable for the criminal activities of household members and guests.
What is the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990?
Why is the assumption of "All people are deserving" false?
Redling, segregation continued and increased because although it was legislation, it was not enforced.
What do the combination of the following lead to?
Neoliberalism, ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), increase of punitive policies, and mass incarceration.
Capital gain.
Criminalization of the poor.
Other thoughts?
An interinstitutional space that has emerged in the context of mass supervision and a social services- centric network.
What is the mirky middle?
Why is this clause of the One Strike Policy problematic?
"Illegal drug use or other criminal activities on or off public housing property face swift and certain eviction."
Ironically, innocent families who did not commit or were aware of criminal activities of family members or guests were subject to eviction.
Innocent families were criminalized.
Who were the Presidents who signed the policies before the One Strike Act?
Who are Nixon and Reagan?
Criminals deserve to be taken out of public housing and go to jail
Criminals do not deserve public housing
Families deserve to live at peace and enjoy public housing
Families do not deserve danger and crime
Why is this problematic under the One Strike/ Extension Act of 1996?
"Criminals" deserve resources, rehab, etc. to help break the cycle of poverty.
"Criminals" are deserving of housing, everyone deserves housing.
Families were treated as criminals even if they were innocent.
Families were evicted due to "on or off" loop hole.
Families definitely deserve to live at peace but under different policy conditions.
Which housing acts reflects Wacquant's argument of penal welfare?
What is the Anti Drug Abuse act and One Strike Act?
What assumptions does the One Strike Policy/ Extension Act of 1996 make about the nation and its polity?
Politicians have assumptions about the depraved nature of the poor and the need for tough sanctions to ensure compliance with social norms.