1. Margins - Group 2Detroit/MUMBAI/Washington D.C.
Hana Greenberg
Nathan Jaco
Ashwini Kantak

2. Inequalities
Affordable Housing Options
Political Representation
Class Struggles
3. LIVING AT THE MARGINS - HOUSING
Mumbai55% of population housed in slums
Detroit 2.5% of
population homeless
Washington D.C. -
1.6% of population homeless
Joel Newell
4. AFFORDABLE HOUSING - Barriers
Detroit and D.C.
Mumbai
5. BARRIERS DETROIT AND D.C.
Public Policies
Racial Discrimination
Community Opposition
6. BARRIERS - MUMBAI
Unmanageable Migrant Population
Scarce Land
Astronomical Land Values
Competing Political Parties
Corruption
Lack of Citizen Involvement
7. CONSEQUENCES - DETROIT AND D.C.
Residential Segregation
Decaying Inner Cities
Robin Buckson, The Detroit News
8. CONSEQUENCES - MUMBAI
Nine Million in Slums
Lack of Adequate
Infrastructure
Rampant Disease
Google Images
9. AFFORDABLE HOUSING - CONCLUSIONS
Detroit and Washington D.C.
Residential Desegregation
Education and Assistance against Discriminatory Practices
Mumbai
Public Policies and Public Private Partnerships
Vigilant Law Enforcement; Infrastructure Investment
Citizen Engagement for Political Accountability
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(PART 3 follows)
11. Class Struggle Defined
Class struggle is best understood in a mereological sense.
Class struggle is about the relationship between at least two different classes of people in the same environment over the same period of time.
Class struggle may be realized in different arenas. This is related to the form of the class struggle.
12. Class Struggle Defined
While the living conditions of the lower classes may be dramatically different from place to place and over time, it is the relative disparity endemic to a particular milieu, the outcomes of such, and the strategies used to cope that makes a class struggle.
13. Forms of Class Struggle
Mumbai: Access to Spaces to Live and Work
Washington DC: Access to Education and Political Representation
Detroit: Access to Living-Wage Earning Work in the Industrial Economy
14. Mumbai and Space
Migrants and the poor struggle to find places to live and work with hospitable infrastructure.
Market prices concentrate them in slums.
Government policy, specifically land use regulation, causes elevated rents which lead to hyperdensity in the slums and this leads to some of the great suffering which is found there.
15. Washington DC and Mind Matters
School reform as a tool of class power.
Education is the key to opportunity and political access.
Political inequality leads to further divergence in educational attainment.
16. Detroit and Post-Industrial Deja Vu
Detroits marginal group now consists almost entirely of black Americans and is part of a long history of race and class struggle.
Structural change: technological innovation, capital flight, and de-industrialization.
Archetypal post-industrial dystopia?
17. Class Struggle Conclusions
The established powers (government and private sector) conspire to perpetuate the pattern of relations.
In Detroit and Washington DC the disadvantaged part of the population is not arbitrarily demarcated, but is instead based on a history of race relations.
18. Margins: Concluding remarks
Inequalities
Political Representation
Class Struggles
Affordable Housing Options