Urban & Environmental Scholar · Virginia State University

Who gets to claim the city, and on what terms?

Jim Fraser is Associate Professor and Sociology Program Coordinator at Virginia State University. For three decades his research on cities, housing, environment, and the politics of belonging — from the Over-the-Rhine People's Movement to testimony before the U.S. House — has been written for scholars, students, agencies, and the public alike.

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James C. Fraser
James C. Fraser, Ph.D.
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The Engineering of Exclusion
Gentrification, the Over-the-Rhine People's Movement, and the right to claim the city.
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2019After Gentrification: Social Mix, Settler Colonialism, and Cruel Optimism. AntipodeDownload
2004Beyond Gentrification: Mobilizing Communities and Claiming Space. Urban GeographyDownload
2003Building Community Citizens: Claiming the Right to Place-Making. Urban StudiesDownload
2016Disrupting the Order of Things: Public Housing Tenant Organizing. CitiesDownload
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Why Homeowners Are Trapped in Floodplains
FEMA buyouts, repetitive-loss properties, and community-based flood policy.
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2017Historical Waterscape Trajectories That Need Care: Kinston's Flood Homes. Journal of Political EcologyDownload
2011Repetitive Flood Victims and Acceptance of FEMA Mitigation Offers. DisastersDownload
2006Creating Effective Flood Mitigation Policies. Eos, AGUDownload
2006Mitigating Repetitive Loss Properties. FEMA ReportDownload
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Why Affordable Housing Needs an Income Floor
The POAH / Over-the-Rhine study on mixed-income neighborhoods and economic mobility.
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2024Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Making Mixed-Income Neighborhoods Work. POAH Final ReportDownload
2016U.S. Public-Housing Transformations and the Housing Publics Lost in Transition. City & CommunityDownload
2013HOPE VI, Colonization, and the Production of Difference. Urban Affairs ReviewDownload
2012HOPE VI: Calling for Modesty in Its Claims. Mixed CommunitiesDownload
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Stopping Displacement in a Booming City
From congressional testimony to inclusionary zoning — research that shapes policy.
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2009Academic Perspectives on the Future of Public Housing. U.S. House Subcommittee TestimonyHearing record
2016Housing Policy and Inclusionary Zoning Feasibility Study. Metro Planning, NashvilleDownload
2014Equitable Development: Maximizing Affordability, Minimizing Displacement. Metro Planning, NashvilleDownload
—Policy Brief: Housing, Displacement & the Public Interest. J. FraserDownload
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CH 01 · Urban Beyond Gentrification: Mobilizing Communities and Claiming Space Urban Geography, 2004 Download PDF CH 02 · Environment Historical Waterscape Trajectories That Need Care Journal of Political Ecology, 2017 Download PDF CH 03 · Housing Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Making Mixed-Income Neighborhoods Work POAH Communities, Final Report, 2024 Download PDF CH 04 · On the Record Curriculum Vitae 70+ publications · $12M+ funding · congressional testimony View the full CV

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