Relocation counselling as a tool to prevent negative spillover effects?

Public housing revitalization relocatees often recluster in already fragile neighbourhoods where they continue to struggle with poverty and may cause nuisances and conflict in their new living environment. This paper reviews the literature on relocation counselling efforts and the appearance of negative neighbourhood spillovers connected to four...

Moving out and going down? A review of recent evidence on ‘Waterbed’ effects of assisted mobility and housing restructuring programs in the United States and the Netherlands (draft version)

Comparing US and Dutch experiences, this paper seeks to determine whether the demolition of public housing results in ‘waterbed effects’, i.e. the shift of crime and other social problems to nearby fragile neighbourhoods, as a result of residential relocation patterns. Notwithstand-ing fundamental contextual differences, existing research shows...