Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Neighborhood Defenders and the Power of Delay
- 3 Land Use Regulations and Multifamily Housing Development
- 4 Land Use Regulations and Public Input
- 5 Who Are the Neighborhood Defenders?
- 6 Neighborhood Defense Tactics
- 7 Gentrification, Affordable Housing, and Housing Reform
- Appendix to Chapter 3
- Appendix to Chapter 4
- Appendix to Chapter 5
- Appendix to Chapter 6
- References
- Index
5 - Who Are the Neighborhood Defenders?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2019
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Neighborhood Defenders and the Power of Delay
- 3 Land Use Regulations and Multifamily Housing Development
- 4 Land Use Regulations and Public Input
- 5 Who Are the Neighborhood Defenders?
- 6 Neighborhood Defense Tactics
- 7 Gentrification, Affordable Housing, and Housing Reform
- Appendix to Chapter 3
- Appendix to Chapter 4
- Appendix to Chapter 5
- Appendix to Chapter 6
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapters 5 and 6 turn to members of the public. In Chapter 5, we combine a novel data set of all citizen participants in planning and zoning board meetings in the greater Boston area with the state voter file to describe the demographic and attitudinal attributes of meeting attendees. We demonstrate that these individuals are overwhelmingly opposed to new housing and demographically unrepresentative of their broader communities across a number of important domains.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Neighborhood DefendersParticipatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis, pp. 95 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019