Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City

Gentrification Through the Back Door
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-74274-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: Explorations in Housing Studies

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. This book problematizes those programs in London and New York City by offering an empirical, research-based perspective on the socio-spatial dimensions of inclusionary housing approaches in both cities. The aim of those programs is to produce affordable housing and foster greater socio-economic inclusion by mandating or incentivizing private developers to include affordable housing units within their market-rate residential developments.

The starting point of this book is the so-called “poor door” practice in London and New York City, which results in mixed-income developments with separate entrances for “affordable housing” and wealthier market-rate residents. Focusing on this “poor door” practice allowed for a critical look at the housing program behind it. By exploring the relationship between inclusionary housing, new-build gentrification, and austerity urbanism, this book highlights the complexity of the planning process and the ambivalences and interdependencies of the actors involved. Thereby, it provides evidence that the provision of affordable housing or social mixing through this program has only limited success and, above all, that it promotes – in a sense through the “back door” – the very gentrification and displacement mechanisms it is supposed to counteract.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students of housing studies, planning, and urban sociology, as well as planners and policymakers who are interested in the consequences of their own housing programs.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meubrink, Yuca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

List of Boxes

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Introduction

Rethinking Inclusionary Housing in an Age of Austerity

A Tale of Two Doors: The “Poor Door” Phenomenon

Benevolent Planning Policy or“Recipe” for Gentrification?: Recent Approaches to Inclusionary Housing in London and New York City

Researching Inclusionary Housing: Literature Review and Conceptual Framework

Approaching Inclusionary Housing: Methods and National and Local Context

Summary of the Chapters

Chapter 1

Building the Way Out of the Crisis?

The Evolution of Inclusionary Housing Policies in London and New York City under Conditions of Austerity

First Phases of Inclusionary Housing

Second Phase of Inclusionary Housing

Third Phase of Inclusionary Housing

Continuity Despite Change

Chapter 2

Creating Value for Profit Rather Than “Affordable Housing”: Neighborhood Regeneration Under the Pretext of Inclusionary Housing

Urban Regeneration in the Context of Urban Entrepreneurialism and Financialization of Housing in London and New York City

Creating Value Out of Thin Air?

The State as Developer: The Redevelopment of Central Hill Estate in London

The State as Enabler: Rezoning Inwood in New York City

Comparing New York City and London

Chapter 3

Reclaiming What, Where and for Whom?

How the Provision of a “Public Good” Contributes to New-Build Gentrification

The Role of Local Governments in the Uneven Spatial Distribution of Inclusionary Housing Developments

Cases Studied in Each City

Negotiating Inclusionary Housing in Affluent Neighborhoods

Negotiating Inclusionary Housing in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Neighborhood Inequalities Reinforced

Chapter 4
Vertical Segregation by Design:

How Inclusionary Housing Developments Contribute to a Vertical Gentrification Movement

Theoretical Considerations of Vertical Segregation by Design

Vertical Segregation by Design in London and New York City

Vertical Gentrification of Mixed-Income Housing

Interview

Chapter 5

Limited Accessibility to and Affordability of “Affordable Housing” as a Form of Gentrification

Accessible for Whom?

Affordable for Whom?

Gentrification of “Affordable Housing”

Interviews

Conclusion
Inclusionary Housing as Part of the Problem, Not the Solution to the Housing Affordability Crises

Afterword
The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Transformative Moment of Inclusionary Housing?

The End of Section 106 in England: A New Fast-Track Route for Developers or a New Way to Deliver Affordable Housing?

A Glimpse of Hope in New York City?

Concluding Remarks

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yuca Meubrink currently works as academic coordinator of the interdisciplinary research group “Sustainable construction – for saving resources and climate protection” of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She previously worked as a research and teaching assistant in the study program Metropolitan Culture at the HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany from where she also received her Ph.D. She has been a visiting scholar at City University of New York and at Birkbeck, University of London. She is also a member of the editorial collective, sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung – a peer-reviewed, open access journal. Yuca Meubrink studied North American Studies, Cultural and Social Anthropology and Journalism in Berlin, Germany.