Preserving Community through Radical Collaboration: Affordable Housing Preservation Networks in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Denver. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Howell, Kathryn; Wilson, Barbara Brown
• Is Part Of: Housing, theory and society. Volume 36:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 319
• Page End: 337
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Planning theory -- affordable housing preservation -- collaborative planning -- radical planning; Housing -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; Housing -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Housing policy -- Periodicals; 363.51
• DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2018.1490812
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1403-6096

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Collaborative planning efforts to address complex problems such as affordable housing and climate change traditionally manifest as government-led processes meant to gain legitimacy and engage with multiple types of expertise. These types of processes, however, can leave nonprofit actors constrained by the policy priorities of government-led collaborations due to their ability to reproduce existing power relations. Using a qualitative case-study approach of affordable housing preservation networks in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Denver, we argue that preservation of affordable housing can benefit from what we call radical collaboration . We define radical collaboration as an animated network of actors working towards a shared frame of collective action. It is an approach, often led by community-oriented non-governmental organizations, that seeks to transform the ways disadvantaged groups access the city. Actors in the collaboration bring diverse resources that include funding, data, regulatory power, and portfolio-wide information to solve building-level and broader policy challenges.