A STUDY ON THE CONCEPT OF RESIDENTIALISATION IN THE FIELD OF REHABILITATION OF SOCIAL HOUSING ESTATES IN FRANCE

The concluding chapter summarises the key findings and suggests policy recommendations. Part I delineated the pernicious impacts of neoliberalism and austerity on public/social housing in London, and analysed the role that estate demolition has played. Part II cast a sociological gaze not only at how working-class housing, lives and spaces are materially deprived and symbolically devalued by powerful external forces (neoliberalism and austerity), but also at how such housing, lives and spaces become valued and valuable. This emphasis on positive values corrects those policy perspectives that view estates through the epistemologically narrow lens of quantitative area-based deprivation indices. In comparative urbanism terms, London social housing estates remain substantially different from the anomic, often dangerous spaces of urban marginality such as US public housing projects (Wacquant). Part III focused on residents’ experiences of living through regeneration. It demonstrated how the valuation/devaluation duality tilts around in terms of place belonging. Comprehensive redevelopment diminishes the valued aspects of estates, while the devalued aspects are heightened and eventually dominate. The book provides several policy recommendations and research agendas. Demolition-based regeneration schemes inevitably result in state-led gentrification, but refurbishment-only schemes have the potential to improve estates and residents’ lives.

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Challenging Racist Violence and Racist Hostility in 'Post-Racial' Times: Research and Action in Leeds, UK, 2006–2012

Social Inclusion ◽

10.17645/si.v1i1.103 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 13-20

Author(s):

Ian Law ◽

Jenny Simms ◽

Ala Sirriyeh

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Predominantly White ◽

Social Housing ◽

Local Level ◽

Rural Life ◽

Concerted Action ◽

The Uk ◽

The City ◽

Housing Estates ◽

Contemporary Climate

Despite increasing understanding of, information about and official commitment to challenge these patterns, racist hostility and violence continue to have an enduring presence in urban and rural life in the UK. This indicates the paradoxical nature of this racial crisis and challenges for antiracism as a political project. This paper charts how these issues play out at the local level through an examination of a five year process from problem identification through to research, response, action and aftermath from 2006 to 2012 in the city of Leeds, UK, with a focus on two predominantly white working class social housing estates in the city. We explore how embedded tensions and antagonisms can begin to be challenged, while examining how the contemporary climate of austerity and cuts in services, together with prevailing post-racial thinking, make the likelihood of such concerted action in the UK increasingly remote.

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Growing Old in Cities. Council Housing Estates in Trieste as Laboratories for New Perspectives in Urban Planning

European Spatial Research and Policy ◽

10.2478/v10105-012-0005-8 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 49-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Massimo Bricocoli ◽

Elena Marchigiani

Keyword(s):

Social Housing ◽

Health Agency ◽

Field Work ◽

Living Environment ◽

Spatial Profile ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Ageing Processes ◽

Housing Estates

Significant ageing processes are affecting many regions across Europe and are changing the social and spatial profile of cities. In Trieste, Italy, a joint initiative by the public Health Agency and the Social Housing Agency has developed a programme targeting conditions that allow people to age at home. The outcomes of the programme stress the need to redesign and reorganise the living environment as a way to oppose to the institutionalisation of older people in specialised nursing homes. Based on intensive field work, this contribution presents and discusses the original and innovative inputs that the case study is offering to the Italian and European debate.

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The research boroughs and their estates

10.1332/policypress/9781447329183.003.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 89-123

Author(s):

Paul Watt

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Social Housing ◽

Local Authority ◽

Housing Tenure ◽

Open Market ◽

Ethnic Populations ◽

Housing Estates ◽

Right To Buy ◽

Minority Ethnic

This chapter summarises the London research boroughs and estates. The research focusses on fourteen council-built housing estates in seven boroughs: Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Newham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets. Six of these boroughs (except suburban Barnet) have been among the most deprived local authority areas in England for decades, and include high levels of poverty and large Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic populations, although they have also gentrified since the 1980s. The fourteen estates are analysed in terms of their local authority origins, landlords and housing tenure, and also the rationale, progress and effects of their respective regeneration schemes. Reference is made to entrepreneurial borough strategies where relevant. In addition to the seven main boroughs, less extensive research was undertaken at five council estates in four supplementary boroughs: Brent, Camden, Waltham Forest and Westminster. The chapter provides a socio-demographic summary of the estate resident interviewees divided into four housing tenures: social tenants, Right-to-Buy owner-occupiers, temporary non-secure tenants, and owner-occupiers who bought their homes on the open market. The interviewees broadly reflect the dominant multi-ethnic working-class population of London’s social housing estates, albeit weighted towards elderly and long-term residents.

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Preservation of Franco’s Social Housing Estates in Madrid

Urbanism and Dictatorship ◽

10.1515/9783038215134-009 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 135-147

Keyword(s):

Social Housing ◽

Housing Estates

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Fighting for Their Neighborhood: Urban Policy and Anti-State Riots in France

Social Forces ◽

10.1093/sf/soz126 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 98 (4) ◽

pp. 1719-1743

Author(s):

Michalis Moutselos

Keyword(s):

Social Housing ◽

Urban Policy ◽

Local Variation ◽

State Intervention ◽

State Violence ◽

Urban Setting ◽

The North ◽

Network Activation ◽

And Inversion ◽

Housing Estates

Abstract Why does anti-state, violent rioting take place in advanced democracies? The paper investigates the role of the urban environment in shaping grievances expressed and mobilization/counter-mobilization processes observed during a riotous episode. In particular, I look at large social-housing estates as a propitious urban setting for the eruption and sustenance of anti-state violence. I identify three mechanisms (stigma amplification and inversion, failure of state intervention in the form of everyday administration and emergency policing, and advantages for network activation and resource mobilization among potential rioters) that complement standard explanations of rioting based on socioeconomic and ethno-cultural grievances. I test the theoretical model using a controlled case study of two neighboring suburbs in the North of Paris, with similar socioeconomic, demographic, and political characteristics but different violent outcomes in the 2005 nation-wide wave of French riots. The paper traces the source of local variation to the exogenous presence of large, concentrated social-housing estates in one, but not the other. The analysis here treats anti-state rioting as a form of urban protest and looks at state-society divisions rooted in urban geography and policy that have been overlooked in conventional scholarship on minority mobilization in Europe.

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