Crucial roles of ‘life's work’ amidst public housing renewal in Ottawa and New York City
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines the evolving geographies of capitalist accumulation through the urban renewal and commodification of public housing, and the life's work of tenants’ whose exploitation and dispossession it functions through. I trace relational contours between Ottawa (Canada) and New York City (USA), where state-managed redevelopment and revitalisation plans restructure decommodified public housing into housing available to the market. I argue that tenants’ homes and everyday lives are the material core of these processes, which function by expropriating the means of social reproduction – home, and its lifeways – that knit together public housing communities. I situate these state-led urban renewal plans within an interpretive analytic of racial capitalism to examine how their racial-spatial logics rest on differentially valuing the everyday spaces of public housing tenants as disposable, in order to exploit tenants’ housing insecurity and dispossess communities. Tenants’ fights against dispossession and struggles for home highlight details how racialised expropriation continues to structure the expanding reaches of capitalist accumulation. In this analysis, struggles to secure the means of social reproduction are seen as both a stake and a necessary condition for accumulation processes under racial capitalism.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".