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+==1AC – K Version== |
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+===Framing=== |
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+====The role of the judge is to combat oppression through the promotion of critical thought==== |
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+Giroux 05 Giroux, Henry A. Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005. Print. |
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+"The terrain of struggle on which the social reconstructionists chose to fight focused on |
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+of this position in his description of how a curriculum should be organized:" |
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+====The role of the ballot is to endorse the best liberation strategy for the oppressed. That mandates engagement with the real, material world – that's the best form of education- abstraction doesn't do anything==== |
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+**Matsuda 89**. Mari Matsuda, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hawaii, "When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method", 11 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 1989 |
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+Abstraction and detachment are ways out of the discomfort of direct confrontation with the ugliness |
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+for these writers as they enter into mainstream debates about law and theory. |
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+===Harms=== |
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+====The section 8 voucher housing program has caused America's poor to be trapped in dangerous, impoverished neighborhoods, cutting off any chance at upward social mobility==== |
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+**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM |
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+When a woman in McKinney, Texas, told Tatiana Rhodes and her friends to |
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+more reliable source of rent than other low-income tenants have available. |
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+====Specifically, states and landlords are determined to keep section 8 voucher holders in areas of concentrated poverty, using legal, but discriminatory tactics amounting to modern-day redlining==== |
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+**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM |
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+The failings of Section 8 go far beyond flaws in how the program was designed |
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+in, they can't do it because the properties won't take the voucher." |
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+====This is especially prevalent in our home Texas- the legislature passed a bill 2 years ago that made it legal for landlords to refuse renting apartments to section 8 voucher holders==== |
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+**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM |
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+Some cities have tried to prevent this. Last year Austin passed a "Source |
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+minorities) in buildings because they might drive away market-rate tenants. |
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+====This legal discrimination makes it difficult to find housing, and when housing is found, it's usually in horrible conditions, leading to horrendous living conditions and loss of value to life, especially in Texas cities==== |
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+**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM |
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+But in Dallas, the Inclusive Communities Project found that some landlords who owned many |
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+sleep, and I'm stressed out the whole time," he told me. |
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+===Plan and Solvency=== |
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+====Plan: The United States federal government ought to guarantee the right to housing by replacing metro-wide fair market rents with ZIP-code level fair market rents for Section 8 voucher holders.==== |
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+====The ZIP-code model has literally no downside- landlords don't lose anything while the voucher recipients and their children get better housing==== |
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+**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM |
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+We also analyze the impact of "tilting" the rent ceiling toward higher- |
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+with similar program impacts cost upwards of $3,000 per year. |
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+====AND- It spurs people to move into higher quality neighborhoods==== |
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+**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM |
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+For each intervention, we construct a cost estimate and summary measure of the change |
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+however, operates like a substitution effect and tenants substitute to higher quality. |
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+====Dallas test case proves people move out of high crime and poverty neighborhoods==== |
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+**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM |
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+Finally, Table 4 shows that across Dallas, average voucher rents were about constant |
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+because recipients were leaving distressed public housing with a high concentration of poverty. |
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+====Plan causes recipients to move out of rodent infested buildings into better quality structures==== |
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+**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM |
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+Rents at the ZIP code-level were highly responsive to the policy change, |
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+important benefit for voucher recipients, which we examine in the next section. |
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+====Err aff on solvency- it's been modeled in multiple cities and the results are great==== |
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+**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM |
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+The Housing Choice Voucher program is the nation's largest housing subsidy, serving 2. |
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+the point of winning the lottery if there's nowhere safe to spend it? |
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+====Comparative analysis proves we are best housing program for section 8 recipients==== |
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+**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM |
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+We examine the incidence of a narrowly-targeted voucher program, allowing for consumer |
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+rank of children in families with vouchers by 4.3 percentage points. |
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+===Underview=== |
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+====Debating about government policies is a valuable heuristic — we can learn about the state without being it. Their radical framework eliminates the potential for political agency and oversimplifies complex, contingent relationships. Instead of rejecting government policies in general, we should analyze particular policies. ==== |
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+**Zanotti 13** — Laura Zanotti, Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University, 2013 ("Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 38, Issue 4, November, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via SAGE Publications Online, p. 299-300) |
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+In this article, I have argued that, notwithstanding their critical stance, scholars |
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+position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism.''84 |
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+====Theorizing about epistemology, ontology, and methodology is useless – only policy discussions will have an impact outside of this debate==== |
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+Lepgold and Nincic 1 (Joesph, associate professor of Government at Georgetown and Miroslav professor of Poly Sci at UC-Davis, Beyond the Ivory Tower: International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance pg. 6-7) |
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+Unlike literature, pure mathematics, or formal logic, the study of inter- |
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+balance must be redressed if SIR is to resonate outside the Ivory Tower. |
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+====Criticisms that lack a political strategy re-inscribe existing structures==== |
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+Bryant 12 (levi, prof of philosophy at Collins college, Critique of the Academic Left, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/) |
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+The problem as I see it is that this is the worst sort of abstraction |
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+. Instead we prefer to shout and denounce. Good luck with that. |