718
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Article

Policy-failing: a repealed right to shelter

Pages 1139-1157 | Received 24 Apr 2018, Accepted 18 Mar 2019, Published online: 03 Apr 2019

References

  • Asch, Chris Myers, & Musgrove, George Derek (2017). Chocolate City: A history of race and democracy in the nation‘s capital. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.
  • Baker, Tom, Cook, Ian R., McCann, Eugene, Temenos, Cristina, & Ward, Kevin (2016). Policies on the move: The transatlantic travels of tax increment financing. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(2), 459–469.
  • Baker, Tom, & McCann, Eugene (2018). Beyond failure: The generative effects of unsuccessful proposals for Supervised Drug Consumption Sites (SCS) in Melbourne, Australia. In Urban geography (pp. 1–19). doi:10.1080/02723638.2018.1500254
  • Baker, Tom, & Temenos, Cristina (2015). Urban policy mobilities research: Introduction to a Debate. International Journal Urban Regional, 39, 824–827.
  • Blau, Joel (1993). The visible poor: Homelessness in the United States. Administration in Social Work, 17(4), 127.
  • Bogard, Cynthia (2003). Seasons such as these: how homelessness took shape in America. Hawthorne, NY: Aldyne de Gruyter.
  • Bok, Rachel, & Coe, Neil M (2017). Geographies of policy knowledge: The state and corporate dimensions of contemporary policy mobilities. Cities, 63, 51–57.
  • Chang, IChun Catherine (2017). Failure matters: Reassembling eco-urbanism in a globalizing China. Environment and Planning A, 49(8), 1719–1742.
  • Davidson, Mark (2017 April 6). Discussant for “The urban politics of policy failure I: Political impacts of failure”. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston Massachusetts.
  • Elwell, Christine (2008)., From political protest to Bureaucratic service: The transformation of homeless advocacy in the nation‘s capital and the Eclipse of political discourse. Unpublished PhD thesis, American University
  • Fauntroy, Michael (2003). Home rule or house rule? Maryland: University Press of America.
  • Greenberger, M., Brown, E., & Bowden, A. eds. (1993). Cold, harsh, and unending resistance: The district of Columbia government’s hidden war against its poor and homeless. Washington, D.C.: Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. Available online at www.legalclinic.org (last accessed 1 June 2015)
  • Hartman, Chester (2006). The case for a right to housing. In R Bratt, C Hartman, & M Stone (Eds.), A right to housing: Foundation for a new social agenda (pp. 177–192). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
  • He, Shenjing, Li, L., Zhang, Y., & Wang, J. (2018). A small entrepreneurial city in action: Policy mobility, urban entrepreneurialism, and politics of scale in Jiyuan, China. International Journal Urban Regulation Research, 42, 684–702.
  • Henig, Jeffrey (1994). To know them is to…? Proximity to shelters and support for the homeless. Social Science Quarterly, 75(4), 741–754.
  • Hopper, Kim (2003). Reckoning with homelessness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Huron, Amanda (2018). Carving out the commons: Tenant organizing and housing cooperatives in Washington. DC: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Jaffe, Harry, & Sherwood, Tom (1994). Dream city: Race, power and the decline of Washington, D.C. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  • Kassens-Noor, Eva & Lauermann, John (2018). Mechanisms of policy failure: Boston’s 2024 Olympic bid. Urban Studies, 55(15), 3369–3384.
  • Kim, Hopper, & Cox, L. Stuart (1986). Litigation in advocacy for the homeless: The case of New York City. In J Erickson & C Wilhelm (Eds.), Housing the homeless (pp. 301–314). New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research.
  • Kodras, Janet (1997). The changing map of American poverty in an era of economic restructuring and political realignment. Economic Geography, 73, 67–93.
  • Kusmer, Kenneth (2003). Down and out, on the road: The homeless in American history. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Langdon, James, & Kass, Mark (1985). Homelessness in America: Looking for the right shelter. Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, 19, 305–392.
  • Longhurst, Andrew, & McCann, Eugene (2016). Political struggles on a frontier of harm reduction drug policy: Geographies of constrained policy mobility. Space and Polity, 20(1), 109–123.
  • Lovell, Heather (2017a). Policy failure mobilities. Progress in Human Geography, 43(1), 46–63.
  • Lovell, Heather (2017b). Are policy failures mobile? An investigation of the advanced metering infrastructure program in the State of Victoria, Australia. Environment and Planning A, 49(2), 314–331.
  • Malone, Aaron (2018). (Im) mobile and (un) successful? A policy mobilities approach to New Orleans’s residential security taxing districts. In Environment and planning C: Politics and space, 37(1), 102-118.
  • Martinez, S. Lynn (1992). An American vision: The right to shelter. Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal, 12, 1–22.
  • McCann, Eugene (2017). Mobilities, politics, and the future: Critical geographies of green urbanism. Environment and Planning A, 49(8), 1816–1823.
  • McCann, Eugene, & Ward, Kevin (2010). Relationality/territoriality: Toward a conceptualization of cities in the world. Geoforum, 41(2), 175–184.
  • McCann, Eugene, & Ward, Kevin (2011). Mobile urbanism. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
  • McCann, Eugene, & Ward, Kevin (2015). Thinking through dualisms in urban policy mobilities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39(4), 828–830.
  • McFarlane, Colin (2011). Learning the city: knowledge and translocal assemblage. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • McGovern, Stephen (1998). The politics of downtown development. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
  • Mitchell, Don (2011). Homelessness, American style. Urban Geography, 32, 933–955.
  • Moore-Cherry, Niamh, & Bonnin, Christine (2018). Playing with time in Moore street, Dublin: Urban redevelopment, temporal politics and the governance of space-time. Urban Geography. doi:10.1080/02723638.2018.1429767
  • O’Connor, Alice (2008). Swimming against the tide. In J DeFilippis & S Sagegert (Eds.), The community development reader (pp. 29–47). New York: Routledge.
  • Paige, Jerome, & Reuss, Margaret (1983). Safe, decent and affordable: Citizen struggles to improve housing in the district of Columbia. 1890–1982. Washington, D.C.: University of the District of Columbia.
  • Peck, Jaime (2011). Geographies of policy: From transfer-diffusion to mobility-mutation. Progress in Human Geography, 35, 773–797.
  • Peck, Jaime, & Theodore, Nik (2010). Mobilizing policy: Models, methods, and mutations. Geoforum, 41, 195–208.
  • Peck, Jamie, & Theodore, Nik (2015). Fast policy: Experimental statecraft at the thresholds of neoliberalism. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota Press.
  • Prince, Russell (2010). Policy transfer as policy assemblage: Making policy for the creative industries in New Zealand. Environment and Planning A, 42, 169–186.
  • Rader, Victoria (1986). Signal through the flames. Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward.
  • Reid, Inez Smith. (1986). Law, politics and the homeless. West Virginia Law Review, 89(1), 115–148.
  • Robinson, Jennifer (2015). ‘Arriving at’ urban policies: The topological spaces of urban policy mobility. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39(4), 831–834.
  • Roisman, Florence (1991). Establishing a right to housing: A general guide. Clearinghouse Review, 25(3), 203–226.
  • Rosenthal, Rob, & Foscarinis, Maria (2006). Responses to homelessness: Past policies, future directions, and a right to housing. In R. Bratt, M. Stone, & C. Hartman (Eds.), A right to housing: Foundation for a new social agenda (pp. 316–339). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Rutland, Ted, & Aylett, Alex (2008). The work of policy: Actor networks, governmentality, and local action on climate change in Portland, Oregon. Environment and Planning D, 26, 627–646.
  • Stein, Christian, Michel, B., Glasze, G., & Pütz, R. (2017). Learning from failed policy mobilities: Contradictions, resistances and unintended outcomes in the transfer of “business improvement districts” to Germany. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(1), 35–49.
  • Temenos, Cristina, Baker, Tom, & Cook, Ian R. (2018). Inside mobile urbanism: Cities and policy mobilities. In T. Schwanen (Ed.), Handbook of urban geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Temenos, Cristina, & McCann, Eugene (2012). The local politics of policy mobility: Learning, persuasion, and the production of a municipal sustainability fix. Environment and Planning A, 44(6), 1389–1406.
  • The New York Times. (1984 August 29). A right to live, a right to vote. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/29/us/a-right-to-live-a-right-to-vote.html
  • The Washington Afro-American (1984 October 27). Vote “no” on initiative 17. Available in the Washingtonian Special Collections, Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library, Washington, D.C.
  • The Washington City Paper (1989 September 29) Homeless economics. Available in the Washingtonian Special Collections, Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library, Washington, D.C.
  • The Washington Post. (1976 December 8). Empty houses and the homeless poor.
  • The Washington Post (1980 May 24). City backs off its plan to lower health funds for the poor.
  • The Washington Post (1984 October 14). Close to home: Should we require shelter for the homeless?
  • The Washington Post (1985 February 5). Barry opens homeless aid drive: coalition seeks $150,000 in emergency funds.
  • The Washington Post (1986 May 21). Homeless initiative ruled valid.
  • The Washington Post (1990 November 4). Referendum 005: don’t throw good money after bad.
  • Walters, Ronald, & Travis, Toni-Michelle (eds). (2010). Democratic Destiny and The District of Columbia. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
  • WAMU 88.5 FM (2018 March 12) Homeless advocates question bowser’s plan to close D.C. general shelter this year. https://wamu.org/story/18/03/14/homeless-advocates-question-bowsers-plan-close-d-c-general-shelter-year/
  • Ward, Kevin (2017). Policy mobilities, politics and place: The making of financial urban futures. European urban and regional studies, 25(3), 266–283.
  • Ward, Kevin (2018). Urban redevelopment policies on the move: Rethinking the geographies of comparison, exchange and learning. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42(4), 666–683.
  • Webber, Sophie (2015). Mobile adaptation and sticky experiments: Circulating best practices and lessons learned in climate change adaptation. Geographical Research, 53(1), 26–38.
  • Wells, Katie (2014). Policyfailing: The case of public property disposal in Washington, DC. ACME: an International Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(3), 473–494.
  • Wells, Katie (2015). A housing crisis, a failed law, and a property conflict: The U.S. urban speculation tax. Antipode, 47, 1043–1061.
  • Williams, Lois, Jackson, S., Trinity, F., & Schorr, S. (1993). The District of Columbia’s response to homelessness: Depending on the kindness of strangers. D.C. Law Review, 2(1), 47–90.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.