Print Email Facebook Twitter The effects of physical restructuring on the socioeconomic status of neighbourhoods Title The effects of physical restructuring on the socioeconomic status of neighbourhoods: Selective migration and upgrading Author Zwiers, M.D. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing) van Ham, M. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing; University of St Andrews) Kleinhans, R.J. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing) Date 2018 Abstract In the last few decades, many governments have implemented urban restructuring programmes with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived neighbourhoods. The main instrument of restructuring has been housing diversification and tenure mixing. The demolition of low-quality (social) housing and the construction of owner-occupied or private rented dwellings was expected to change the population composition of deprived neighbourhoods through the in-migration of middle- and high-income households. Many studies have been critical with regard to the success of such policies in actually upgrading neighbourhoods. Using data from the 31 largest Dutch cities for the 1999 to 2013 period, this study contributes to the literature by investigating the effects of large-scale demolition and new construction on neighbourhood income developments on a low spatial scale. We use propensity score matching to isolate the direct effects of policy by comparing restructured neighbourhoods with a set of control neighbourhoods with low demolition rates, but with similar socioeconomic characteristics. The results indicate that large-scale demolition leads to socioeconomic upgrading of deprived neighbourhoods as a result of attracting and maintaining middle- and high-income households. We find no evidence of spillover effects to nearby neighbourhoods, suggesting that physical restructuring only has very local effects. Subject demolitionneighbourhood changeselective migrationurban restructuring To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4f9341a1-7ffc-4558-a16f-e090b312336f DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018772980 ISSN 0042-0980 Source Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies, 56 (2019) (8), 1647-1663 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 M.D. Zwiers, M. van Ham, R.J. Kleinhans Files PDF 0042098018772980.pdf 403.53 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4f9341a1-7ffc-4558-a16f-e090b312336f/datastream/OBJ/view