Mixed income housing (MIH)

Trillo, C

Abstract

Mixed Income Housing (MIH) is the outcome of a deliberate effort to build a mixed-income development, usually including a variety of housing typologies, sometime combined with the goal of creating a mixed-tenure development. International consensus on a more specific definition of MIH does not exist; instead, multiple expressions can be equally used, with similar meaning. The expression MIH is mainly used within the USA context where it is sometime replaced by mixed-income neighborhood. In Europe, MIH tend to fall within initiatives on (sustainable) urban regeneration, neighborhood restructuring, urban renewal, while the UK legislation often refers to “pepper-potting” with respect to different tenures in the same neighborhood aimed to achieve MIH. Non-English-speaking countries tend to use different terms.
The MIH policies are challenged by a specific connotation, i.e., in the United States it is the combination between urban poverty and black or Latinos ghettoes; hence, spatial segregation is combined with racial considerations which are less present in other countries, except for South Africa. In the USA, desegregation in public housing estates became a legal obligation following the famous 1969 Gautreaux case, because of the application of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination in federally funded activities.

Citation

Trillo, C. (2019). Mixed income housing (MIH). In W. Filho, A. Azul, L. Brandli, P. Özuyar, & T. Wall (Eds.), Sustainable Cities and Communities. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_77-1

• Acceptance Date: Jan 23, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Apr 24, 2019
• Publication Date: Apr 24, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 11, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 11, 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Book Title: Sustainable Cities and Communities
• ISBN: 9783319710617
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_77-1
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_77-1
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