Wijkweerbaarheid in Oss

Publieke familiariteit, socialisatie en de reputatie van een wijk lijken een rol te spelen bij de bereidheid van bewoners zich in te zetten voor de leefbaarheid van hun buurt. Kansen voor zowel gemeente als opbouwwerk liggen in het scheppen van kaders voor ongedwongen ontmoetingen in het publieke domein.

Voice, exit and efficacy: Dealing with perceived neighbourhood decline without moving out

Residents of deprived urban neighbourhoods with a changing population often experience an increase in insecurity. If they judge the change as decline, they are likely to become less satisfied with their residential situation and exhibit coping tactics. This paper combines Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty theory with insights on personal and...

Dealing with living in poor neighbourhoods

In this prologue to the special issue, the guest editors place the contributions in the context of current debates on living in concentrated poverty neighbourhoods. These debates concern two broad categories of residents: poor households that are assisted to move from concentrations of poverty to lower-poverty areas (movers); and households (not...