Wagner, Julia, Kear, Mark, Knuth, Sarah et al. (2 more authors) (2024) Grappling with real property supremacy in US urban climate finance. City. ISSN 1360-4813
Abstract
In US cities, drives to secure property value against climate risks have become a preoccupation for mainstream climate finance. This real property bias sidelines non-owners and inhabitants of historically marginalized housing types, limiting their capacity to prepare for and recover from climate change events. In this intervention, we survey major pathways of existing climate finance, before turning to emerging trends for residential ‘climate-proofing,’ retrofitting efforts that bring climate finance ‘home’ to the building level. Building on the concept of ‘real property supremacy,’ we demonstrate how resourcing climate response is limited by the privileging of real property in the structure and distribution of low-carbon financial tools and incentives. We argue that this privileging reproduces hierarchies of protection for some, while exacerbating existing social inequalities, exclusions, and predations for others—ultimately, yielding greater control over climate futures to those with asymmetrical power over real property. This structurally unequal treatment risks locking-in extant social hierarchies embedded in US real property relationships instead of seizing opportunities to transform them via the historic urban investments required for climate change.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
Keywords: | climate finance,climate risk,devaluation,property,real estate,real property supremacy |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2024 23:17 |
Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2025 00:07 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2024.2367922 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13604813.2024.2367922 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217654 |
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