Housing and American Political Development

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel comprises five papers that explore the 20th century political development of housing policy and housing inequality in the United States. Housing is a major feature of political economy, category of social policy, site of race and class marginalization, and prominent social issue. These papers apply the tools and insights of historical institutionalism and comparative historical analysis to this critical but under-explored domain in U.S. public policy. The panel temporalizes understandings of the politics of housing in the U.S. and integrates housing inequality into the study of statebuilding and political development. The papers explore connections between housing and enduring concerns in the study of American political development (APD) including social policy and welfare state development, party realignment, resistance to racial marginalization, and state-economy-society relations.

Sub Unit

• Division 7: Politics and History

Individual Presentations

• De-segregating the Map: Intraracial Spatial Politics in Early 1900s Baltimore - Sally F Lawton, West Chester University

• Origins of Federal Fair Housing Law: Limited Political Support and Consequences - Kumar Ramanathan, University of Illinois, Chicago

• What Explains Variation in National Flood Insurance in the U.S. and Germany? - Alexander Reisenbichler, University of Toronto; Sebastian Kohl

Chair

• Shai Karp Northwestern University

Discussants

• Mara Sidney Rutgers University, Newark

• Tess Elizabeth Wise Wake Forest University