HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claims

Fraser, James D.; Filippis, James De; Bazuin, Joshua Theodore

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“…Social mix is one of the most controversial initiatives in contemporary urban policymaking (Bailey et al 2015;Galster and Friedrichs 2015). Despite mixed evidence on its benefits for social housing residents, it has grown in popularity in recent decades across first world countries (e.g., August and Walks 2012;Christensen 2015;Cole and Goodchild 2001;Lévy-Vroelant 2014;Ley 2011;Fraser et al 2012). From a political perspective, the implementation of the social mix model in Regent Park, a neighborhood in downtown Toronto that sits on prime real estate, is reflective of neoliberal urban planning, which is organized according to market forces and, as Giroux (2014) suggests, elevates the self interests of the state and corporations above the social welfare needs of the urban poor.…”

Section: The Social MIX Modelmentioning

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“They're Colonizing My Neighborhood”: (Perceptions of) Social Mix in Canada

2017

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In recent years, urban neighborhoods in many Western nations have undergone neighborhood restructuring initiatives, especially in public housing developments. Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest public housing development, is a neighborhood currently undergoing ‘neighborhood revitalization’ based on the social mix model. One tenet of this model is the idea that original public housing residents are benefiting from interactions with middle class residents. Based on qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations with original housing residents as well as new middle‐class homeowners, we examine whether cross‐class interactions actually occur “on the ground” in Regent Park. By examining an iteration of the model that differs with respect to the direction of resident movement—that is, the revitalization of Regent Park involves more advantaged residents buying into the once low‐income neighborhood, as opposed to providing lower‐income residents with housing vouchers to move out of the community (and into more affluent neighborhoods across the city)—our study provides a unique contribution to the existing research on social mix. In particular, our research examines whether the direction of this resident movement has any distinct or demonstrable impact on: (1) the daily perceptions, attitudes, and actions of original and new residents, and (2) the nature of cross‐class interactions. Second, unlike the vast majority of studies done in Europe and the United States, which are conducted “postrevitalization,” we examine the effects of neighborhood revitalization as the process unfolds.

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“They're Colonizing My Neighborhood”: (Perceptions of) Social Mix in Canada

2017

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Community Question: Classical Debates

Klekotko

2023

Scenes and Communities in the City

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The chapter provides an overview of the classical debates on community question. It discusses various approaches to community, comprehended as a neighbourhood, a network or a sense of belonging. In the introduction to the chapter, an overview of the concept of community as opposed to city is presented and the nature of the community question is explained. The introduction is followed by the presentation of the concepts supporting the “community saved” hypothesis and provides the details on the classical approach to the urban community as a neighbourhood as well as discusses contemporary approaches to community comprehended as a place-based social ties. Next, the chapter provides details on the “community liberated” hypothesis and discusses a variety of concepts of community comprehended as a network and a sense of belonging. The chapter concludes with the statement that there is a conceptual gap in the community studies that reflects the “agency vs structure” division. It presents some attempts to overcome them, paying particular attention to Talia Blokland’s concept of community as urban practice, and points to the need for the development of a new approach that would overcome the shortcomings of the current approaches to community and would allow for exploration of the phenomena that have remained so far out of view of community studies.

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Social Mix: International Policy Approaches

Kintrea

2013

Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?

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HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claims

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“They're Colonizing My Neighborhood”: (Perceptions of) Social Mix in Canada

“They're Colonizing My Neighborhood”: (Perceptions of) Social Mix in Canada

Community Question: Classical Debates

Social Mix: International Policy Approaches

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