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- Title
The making of an uneven shore: How coastal management and housing policies shaped racial inequality in asbury park NJ.
- Authors
Eisenhauer, David C.
- Abstract
Recent work in urban geography and political ecology has explored the roots of housing segregation in the United States within governmental polices and racial prejudice within the real estate sector. Additional research has demonstrated how coastal management practices has largely benefited wealthy, white communities. In this paper, I bring together insights from these two strands of research to demonstrate how both coastal management and governmental housing policies combined to shape racial inequalities within and around Asbury Park, New Jersey. By focusing on the period between 1945 and 1970, I show how local, state, and federal actors repeatedly prioritized improving and protecting the beachfront areas of the northern New Jersey shore while promising to eventually address the housing and economic needs of the predominately Black 'West Side' neighbourhood of Asbury Park. This paper demonstrates that not only did governmental spending on coastal management largely benefit white suburban homeowners but also came at the expense of promised spending within Black neighbourhoods. The case study has implications for other coastal regions in the United States in which housing segregation persists. As climate change and sea level rise unfold, the history of racial discrimination in coastal development raises important considerations for efforts to address emerging hazards and risks.
- Subjects
ASBURY Park (N.J.); COASTAL zone management; HOUSING management; HOUSING policy; RACIAL inequality; BEACH houses; SUBURBS; BLACK children
- Publication
Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, 2023, Vol 6, Issue 1, p473
- ISSN
2514-8486
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/25148486211069868