Neighborhood restructuring and relocation in America: How do relocatees fare?

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The effects of forced relocations on improvements of the housing situation: A case study in four Dutch cities (draft version)

Urban restructuring takes place in numerous cities in Western European countries, often in the form of the demolition of relatively cheap dwellings and replacement by new, more expensive dwellings. This phenomenon has been studied extensively. Especially the effects of urban restructuring on the restructured areas themselves have been examined....

Investigating the effects of neighbourhood restructuring on destigmatization practices and health in a Toronto public housing community: An emerging research agenda

“Positive” gentrification, social control, and the “right to the city” in mixed-income communities: Uses and expectations of space and place

Public policies supporting market-oriented strategies to develop mixed-income communities have become ascendant in the United States and a number of other countries around the world. Although framed as addressing both market goals of revitalization and social goals of poverty deconcentration and inclusion, these efforts at “positive...

Reconsidering restructuring and relocation: Searching and evaluating waterbed effects (draft version)

The existence of deprived urban areas triggers many governments to change the physical and social structure of these areas. Sometimes policies are meant to change the area itself, in other cases the policies are meant to improve the situation of the residents. Urban restructuring policies change the deprived urban areas, usually because low-rent...

Displacement and relocation resulting from the demolition of public housing in the U.S.: Resident experiences

Considering the restructuring of social housing areas

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Abstracts international conference on Neighbourhood Restructuring & Resident Location: Context, Choice and Consequence

'Crime-Free Multi-Housing" and other public policy means of mass relocation

Exercising a legal right of return: A Canadian experience in redeveloping public housing

The N2 gateway project in Cape Town: Relocation or forced removal?

Forced relocation: Reason for dissatisfaction with the dwelling and the neighbourhood? (draft version)

This paper focuses on the relationship between voluntary and involuntary reasons for relocation, and the satisfaction with the dwelling and the neighbourhood. We distinguish between voluntary reasons to move and forced reasons to move (demolition or renovation versus divorce). While these separate reasons have been extensively studied in the...

Reconsidering restructuring and relocation: Searching and evaluating waterbed effects

Powerpointpresentations plenary

It’s a trade off: The objective and subjective realities of public housing relocation in Atlanta (draft version)

Governance of relocation; an examination of residential relocation processes in the housing market renewal Pathfinder areas in England

This paper examines governance processes shaping outcomes of neighbourhood restructuring induced residential relocation (RR) in the Housing Market Renewal (HMR) areas in England. In 2002, the Housing Market Renewal proposed demolition of 100,000 properties to renew the failing housing markets of Northern England and the Midlands (Leather et al...

The short-term effects of involuntary relocation on neighborhood quality, housing instability and household well-being

Resident relocation in the context of neighborhood decline memory and context, constraint and opportunity

Unparalleled sub regional household movement, endemic racial discrimination, economic restructuring, central city population decline, and physical decay is part of the narrative that is the City of Detroit, today. But as the city faces wrenching decisions about its future, attracting the headlines of ?hollowing-out?, ?downsizing?, ?rightsizing?,...