Book contents
- Racial Justice in American Land Use
- Racial Justice in American Land Use
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 The Intransigence of Racial Injustice in American Land Use 100+ Years After Buchanan v. Warley
- 2 The Paradox of Buchanan v. Warley
- 3 Structural Inequality and the Evolving Movements for Land-Use Justice
- 4 Assemblages of Inequalities and Resilience Ideologies in Urban Planning
- 5 Race Displaced
- 6 There’s Something Happening Here
- 7 What Would Louis Do?
- 8 Why Segregation Matters
- 9 Zoning’s Racial Innocence and the Imperatives of Segregation
- 10 Understanding Evictions as Racialized Land-Use Practices in Louisville, Kentucky
- 11 Hope and Transformation
- Index
10 - Understanding Evictions as Racialized Land-Use Practices in Louisville, Kentucky
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2025
Book contents
- Racial Justice in American Land Use
- Racial Justice in American Land Use
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 The Intransigence of Racial Injustice in American Land Use 100+ Years After Buchanan v. Warley
- 2 The Paradox of Buchanan v. Warley
- 3 Structural Inequality and the Evolving Movements for Land-Use Justice
- 4 Assemblages of Inequalities and Resilience Ideologies in Urban Planning
- 5 Race Displaced
- 6 There’s Something Happening Here
- 7 What Would Louis Do?
- 8 Why Segregation Matters
- 9 Zoning’s Racial Innocence and the Imperatives of Segregation
- 10 Understanding Evictions as Racialized Land-Use Practices in Louisville, Kentucky
- 11 Hope and Transformation
- Index
Summary
Chapter 10 uses Louisville, Kentucky (a metropolitan area with eviction rates double the national average) as a case study to critique how housing markets and eviction practices not only favor landlords’ property rights over the rights of tenants but also play important roles in maintaining racial segregation and in the day-to-day marginalized lives of the urban poor. Evictions perpetuate racial inequity and segregation in housing and are embedded within a system of white privilege that benefits historically white places. Eviction rates are compared to housing segregation patterns generally and to the historic redlining maps specifically to show the relationships of these racially unequal patterns of housing opportunity. Eviction is a means of control of disadvantaged neighborhoods and an institutionalization of racism in the urban landscape.
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- Racial Justice in American Land Use , pp. 230 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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