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Social Housing and Urban Renewal - A Cross-National Perspective (Hardcover)
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Social Housing and Urban Renewal - A Cross-National Perspective (Hardcover)
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This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban
renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing
estates - as developed either by governments (public housing) or
not-for-profit agencies - became a prominent feature of the 20th
century urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in
North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of
earlier urban renewal, 'slum clearance' programs especially in the
post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the
last three decades, however, Western governments have launched
high-profile 'new urban renewal' programs whose aim has been to
change the image and status of social housing estates away from
being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other social
problems. This latest phase of urban renewal - often called
'regeneration' - has involved widespread demolition of social
housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure housing
developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial
stigmatization, and social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy
homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical urbanists,
as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominant
policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring
instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban
restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new
socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement
and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through
original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts
of urban renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian
cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of
social housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what
effects, in countries with historically limited social housing
sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
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