Nancy Marcia L. Wilson

Housing discrimination in the Sheffield metropolitan area, 1960s to the present

My dissertation research topic is Housing Discrimination in the Sheffield Metropolitan area from the 1960s to the present. My focus is on homeownership as a pathway to wealth, and closing the racial wealth gap for people of colour. One aspect of my research includes the root causes of discrimination. I am currently exploring the history and geography of the region as influencers of social housing policy and housing development. Other exploratory avenues include housing’s socio-economic and political impacts on people of colour and immigrants, and the power structures which support and determine who gets to live where, and why.

I will be exploring theories that include Critical Race Theory (CRT), Post-colonial and Social Capital theories, and the Theory of Property. As I begin to form my conceptual framework, topics that I have identified include intersectionality and structural/institutional racism, migration and segregation, power structures, financialization of housing, and property rights. Using a mixed method approach I intend to gain knowledge about the many barriers to homeownership that people of colour experience. Part of the process will include determining the stakeholders and the various methods we can utilize to remove the barriers to homeownership.

Supervisors: Tom Goodfellow and  S. J. Cooper

Previous Positions: Assistant Executive Director, Development Manager, Single Family Rehabilitation Program Manager, Recapitalization Project Manager, Housing Planner III.