#12178. In the State’s Shadow of Fair Housing: D.C. (White) Business Leaders and their Revanchist Desires

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Abstract:
This article traces D.C. White business leaders’ advocacy of (low-income) Black suburban relocation and White upper-class resettlement in D.C.’s central neighborhoods in the 1960s and 1970s. I document how predominantly White business leaders appropriated fair housing and regional fair share political stances to articulate revanchist desires. These leaders’ revanchist rhetoric depicted the Black poor—especially the single Black mother with children—as the primary figure of neighborhood blight. In the wake of these revanchist politics, low-income Black mothers remained principal victims of pro-mobility policies and gentrification agendas that forced them to continually move to support demolition or redevelopment.
Keywords:
affordable housing politics; and low-income Black mothers; fair housing; fair share housing; Federal City Council; revanchist politics; White business leaders

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