Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper addresses how middle-income renters perceive changing housing opportunities for them in New York City. Using a qualitative GIS approach to analyzing sketch maps, this paper draws from a purposive sample of 32 mostly white middle-income renters living in New York City in 2018 and 2019 to examine their understanding of what parts of the city are affordable and desirable to them now and in the past. By pairing the idea of spatial polarization with middle-income shrink and stretch through social polarization, I demonstrate how perceptions of broader processes of housing cost can impact individuals’ beliefs about their residential mobility in the city. This demonstrates how location desirability and perceived cost can operate as a form of exclusionary pressure. These findings expand the conceptualization of exclusionary pressure and immobility as spatial phenomena while methodologically demonstrating how sketch mapping can elicit individuals’ perceived relationship between interrelated spatial concepts.
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