This case study is based on a real situation, which occurred within a public housing organization. A Canadian low-income public housing corporation wanted to ensure tenant participation in decision-making about their house. In order to do so they borrowed a model of tenant participation from Brazil. However, as Friere would say, the public housing corporation is showing signs of oppression since they are forcing this model on to tenants without a vote or community agreement. The housing corporation automatically believes since it worked in Brazil that it will work in Canada and is not giving anyone an opinion on the model. This case study then outlines the governing body with 14 individuals including the executive directors, five senior managers, …show more content…
Fifteen communities had fewer than 5 tenants nominated; the remaining four communities had no tenants nominated for the Tenant Council. The governing body determined that the Tenant Councils would be established in all but the four communities where there were no tenants nominated. In the community with 10 members, the council identified the tenant needs and projects the tenants wanted implemented. They developed a youth program and a community garden that 60% of the tenants participated in. The Housing Officer supported the Tenant Council however, in the 15 communities with fewer than 5 members on the council, there were major problems for the council getting tenant input, developing programs and how to spend money on repairs. The Housing Officers became frustrated and began to direct all activities of the councils. According to Friere, this would be considered oppressive behaviour. Since the corporation gave so much responsibility to the Housing Officers and oppressed them, the Housing Officers are now oppressing the council tenants within those 15 communities with minimal housing members because of their frustrations. If the Housing Officers disagreed with the decisions made by the Tenant Council, the case stated that there were power struggles between the Housing Officer and the Tenant Council. In addition, this case also states that there was a frequent …show more content…
As Friere would say, the only way these communities can become humanized again is if the council members consciousness are raised about the oppressed and oppressor relationship and if they confront their oppressors since only the oppressed can free all. Once the tenant’s consciousness is raised and they confront the Housing Officers, forgiveness is needed without flipping the relationship. However, the case stated that there are power struggles between the tenant council and the housing officer, Friere would say that this would be the oppressed and oppressor relationships flipping back and fourth between them. Therefore, until the Tenant Council and the Housing Officers realize this relationship, liberation will not occur and they will continue to have power
Stressors in the community is the real estate developer who proposed the development plan. The plan has added conflict between community organizations that don’t agree on the plan. Some members of community see that the plan can bring change to the community that will better life for the community. They see the plan will lead to a reestablished community with new order and hope. They also see that there will be new employment opportunities and stabilization in the areas. Those against the plan feel like there is a lack of trust with the developer since he has been buying properties from the community for several years without consulting the residents. They also don’t agree with the design of the plan and the for-profit real estate agent. The
The lack of available social housing is mainly due to stock levels steadily diminishing each year since 1980, after tenants bought nearly half-a-million council houses under the ‘Right to Buy’ scheme. This coupled with the decline in house building; which is currently at its lowest level since 1946, has brought about a shameful lack of affordable public housing (Turffrey, 2010).
Finally, I will discuss which type of corporation I prefer. A Review of Corporate Roles and Duties The Role of the Board of Directors. The corporation’s business is carried out by its management, under the direction of the Board of Directors. The Board, and each committee of the Board, has complete access to management. Also, the Board and committee member’s have access to independent advisors as each considers necessary or appropriate.
In lecture, the Israel settlements were brought up. This has caused major conflict between Palestinians and Israeli’s. This settlement allowed settler homes to be built on private Palestinian land. This is like what happened to Talal and his family. His family home was going to be demolished and used to build a museum for Israeli. This museum was going to be built on private land that was owned by Palestinians. Also, when Talal’s home was being taken by the government for demolition, Talal and his community showed resistance. This refers to the reading of James Scott’s Hidden and Public Transcripts. He talks about the frontier between the public and hidden transcripts is a zone between the constant struggle between dominant and subordinate groups and dominant groups always prevail. The struggle over boundaries is the most conflict seen in ordinary life. This connects back to Talal and his house struggles because his family and himself were struggling over the boundaries of his house and they were the subordinate group. The Israeli government was the dominant group and it eventually prevailed and took the house away just as Scott had said in his article. In the article titled “Everyday Engagement with Politics and Resistance”: Exploration of a Concept and its Theories mentions how the unemployed, slum-dwellers, urban poor and lowest classes employ public and collective
In this particular case, in order to comprehensively assist the client, I must take action to denounce racial discrimination, and make conscious steps with the client towards racial equality. As we have explored within this course, inaction in the face of racial inequality, maintains and inadvertently
To harass a man on the streets, to not allow him a drink or a job, these are forms of racism that institutions claim to fight, and often do, but the racism of being given a place to live at the cost of being separated from one’s family is a type of racism that exists within and infects the system of institutions. To refuse the comforts of Pruitt-Igoe, and as a consequence be more integrated into a prejudiced population with little hope of finding a job or proper housing, would be considered madness. This systemic racism was akin to a pair of shiny, well-polished handcuffs. As one former resident of Pruitt-Igoe in the film says, “We’re giving you money… we want to be able to control you. We’re giving you money, so we have the right to give you stipulations on how you use it and what you use it
This summary report will provide an overview of the decisions we made as a team, the strategies we used and an evaluation of the final results. This report will also reflect on the learnings on how to successfully manage an organization.
The Foodcorp is a big organization of more than twenty thousand employees. The structure should help the organization achieved established goals and objectives. Therefore, the appropriate structural design is very crucial. The performance and the efficiency of the organization can be enhanced through specialization and appropriate division of labor. Foodcorp used a matrix structure but the management style of Foodcorp seemed to be a one boss arrangement. Information and decisions directly comes from the top. As we can see from the chart, group members report and communicate primarily with president. In my opinion, this style will work best in a simple organization, but not for a big organization like Foodcorp. If it relies too much on the president, the employees might face with many problems such as delays and bad decisions. Finally, Foodcorp may suffer from its structure. In my ...
There were separate management structures maintained in the group with the CEO of NOL in Singapore and CEO in the United States reporting to the group CEO. This separation between owners and manager creates an agency relationship. This exist when one or more persons (the principal or principals) hire another person or persons) as decision making specialist to perform a service. In the modern corporation, managers must understand the links between
What specific actions can be taken if the city was to be deemed unjust because of the paternalistic and elitist ways?
Finally, the author argues that this situation of over-powerlessness highlights how
The process of risk management, retirement process in this company and there are various processes to recruit new staff. They also control the onsite process of construction. Because they are very big company in the market, there are many ongoing processes regarding marketing and planning are going within the
... organizational structure that needs to be maintained for its operations in Australia. As the suggestion has been of total ownership thus span of control is needed and these factors have been discussed in this report to illustrate how effective the organization can be in Australia.
There were several things that the researcher hoped to observe during this study. One of those was evidence that the community residents recognize their potential that they can have power. The researcher was convinced that the constituents wanted more than being a disenfranchised people but to become empowered members of their community.
Nevertheless, the standard has been reduced to no more than 40% until recently. Such dramatic change of the figure has made the goal become ambiguous. Practically, the government has tried many methods in dealing with the housing problem. Housing code enforcement is a method that tries to regulate minimal conditions for rental housing. However, this method does not seem to work because it brings additional costs to the tenant. On the other hand, the government tries to help people become homeowner by benefits in kind, such as imposing tax exemption on first home down payment and low interest rate on mortgages. However, the method does not really aim at helping the poor. Moreover, the government tries to increase the supply of housing by building new shelters and buying existing apartments. Yet, none of these work efficiently. The reason that building new shelters does not work is because most of these new housing projects are expensive and time consuming.