a Department of Political Science , Howard University , Washington , DC , USA.
Soc Work Public Health. 2019;34(1):39-60. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2018.1562403. Epub 2019 Mar 7.
For seven decades from the establishment of home rule and largely independent local government in Washington, DC, mayoral politics, as well as socioeconomic change in city life, have been substantially defined by efforts to protect housing access and to protect vulnerable African American communities against the loss of their homes. Housing policy and racial sensitivity have been intertwined in a on-again off-again struggle against persistent gentrification. The mayoral politics seem to be successful only when factors of racial/economic inequality are integrated with housing policy. Ironically, the more narrow the emphasis on low income housing, the more sensitive has been the decline of black residential retention in the city. To some extent, low-income housing policy has become a public warning against the rising tide of gentrification.
在华盛顿特区实行地方自治和高度独立的地方政府的七十年里，市长政治以及城市生活中的社会经济变化，主要体现在保护住房权益以及保护弱势非裔美国社区免受房屋损失的努力上。住房政策和种族敏感性在一场持续的中产阶级化斗争中交织在一起。只有当种族/经济不平等因素与住房政策相结合时，市长政治似乎才会成功。具有讽刺意味的是，对低收入住房的关注越狭隘，城市中非裔居民的保留率下降得就越敏感。在某种程度上，低收入住房政策已经成为对中产阶级化浪潮的一个公开警告。
