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AbstractA laissez‐faire Yes‐In‐My‐Back‐Yard (YIMBY)‐ism is not a solution to Not‐In‐My‐Back‐Yard (NIMBY)‐ism; rather it represents the other side of the coin of capitalist development. YIMBYism reproduces the 'Housing Question' as Engels posed it, by shifting housing problems across time and space, and in their form. Until YIMBYism contains a critique of capitalist uneven development, it will not fundamentally address the causes of housing problems.

Existing research shows that tenants are disadvantaged in eviction proceedings, but studies have provided an incomplete account of the way court procedures and practices work together to produce systematic disadvantage. We draw on legal aid attorneys' accounts of eviction hearings—particularly how courts establish whether and how much rent is owed—to show how hearings routinely result in judgments in favor of plaintiffs even when tenants have a legal defense. We argue that there is a hierarchy of credibility in how courts evaluate landlords' claims for possession of a rental property due to nonpayment of rent. In demonstrating the way legal claims are embedded within and shaped by wider courthouse practices, the study highlights the importance of legal representation for tenants facing eviction and suggests that courts play a role in the maintenance of exploitative rental markets by failing to penalize landlords for inaccurate charges.

Charter school advocates see the infusion of market competition into the educational sector as a means to achieving greater efficiency, effectiveness, and equity. Within this framework, consumer demand is understood to regulate the charter sector. This article challenges the adequacy of this premise, arguing that the structure of the financing of charter schools plays a decisive, if not determining, role in directing growth. Drawing on an analysis of the financing that enabled the dramatic growth of the UNO Charter School Network (UCSN) in Chicago during the 2000s, the article explores the implications of speculative borrowing and spiraling debt burdens on charter schools and on the functioning of the charter sector more broadly. The analysis reveals that (1) new debt was increasingly used to retire existing debt, (2) the structure of new financing assumed continued growth, and (3) schools within the network were yoked together as revenue from existing—and anticipated—schools was pledged to repay new debt.

This podcast is a continuation of the podcast Eviction Part 1. It discusses cases of eviction, how the instability of housing impacts individuals and neighborhoods, section eight and how eviction is just the latest form of dispossession of people. It looks at neighborhoods in Richmond that have seen instability in some form over the last 100 years. ; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/civil_discourse/1007/thumbnail.jpg

This podcast, Part 1 of 2, discusses the VCU Common Book, Evicted, by Matthew Desmond, and the eviction process in general. It covers both the technical definition (the legal process that leads to someone to be physically removed from the place that they rent) as well as the broader "forced moves" that are enacted by landlords without the legal process as well as the creation of the RVA Eviction Lab as a way to research the topic and bring attention to it. ; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/civil_discourse/1006/thumbnail.jpg