Social Housing and Urban Renewal : A Cross-National Perspective - Paul Watt

Social Housing and Urban Renewal

A Cross-National Perspective

By: Paul Watt (Editor), Peer Smets (Editor)

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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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The 12 essays in this volume consider the impact of urban renewal on social housing in European, American, and Australian cities, as well as in Japan, Chile, and South Africa. Anthropologists, sociologists, urban studies specialists, and other researchers from these countries concentrate on the social processes and impacts of contemporary social housing renewal, particularly the themes of neighborhood and community, poverty and social exclusion, social mixing, mixed-tenure developments, neighborhood effects, territorial stigmatization, demolition, displacement, urban governance, state-led gentrification, and neoliberal urbanism. They examine how and why renewal occurs in different urban spatial contexts and how residents view and experience urban renewal, as well as the views of urban renewal officials and politicians. The book is based on a conference session, "Public/Social Rental Housing and Urban Renewal: New Inequalities and Insecurities?", at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, held in July 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. Seven chapters are based on papers from the session. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *

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