Mind the Poorest: Social Housing Provision in Post-crisis Romania

Turcu, Catalina

doi:10.13060/23362839.2017.4.2.386

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“…Half of the Roma from compact communities live in households that are inadequate for living, such as improvised shelters, containers, abandoned industrial facilities, former socialist workers' dormitories, or colonies (Horváth, 2017, p. 109). The very low quality of housing, linked with the disappearance of the social housing sector (ªoaită, 2017;Turcu, 2017) and with the inefficient administrative policies directed towards large housing estates, especially those with vulnerable populations (Marin and Chelcea, 2018), led to a major housing crisis for the poor, further deepened by a policy of evictions (Berescu, 2010;Lancione, 2019).…”

Section: Data On Pre-existing Conditions In Roma Ghettos In Romaniamentioning

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Vulnerable Roma communities in times of the Covid-19 negative quarantine

Berescu

Alexandrescu

Anghel

2021

Moravian Geographical Reports

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In contrast to other countries in East Central Europe, Romania stands out because of a high number of small and segregated Roma settlements. As an ethnic minority, the Roma are overrepresented in marginalised and impoverished settlements and, given the basic recommendations to contain the pandemic – wash hands, keep the distance and work from home, their situation was disproportionately exacerbated by the imposition of lockdown measures. We use secondary data to interpret the deprivation features that puts them at greater epidemic risk. In addition, the Covid-19 crisis led to a sudden return of the Romanian Roma living in Western Europe. The slums and ghettos were more strictly quarantined than regular areas, suggesting a form of negative quarantine. Quarantine was – next to its medical purpose – used as a rhetoric and disciplinary device. Roma were portrayed as infection spreaders, and racism was channelled mainly through the media. While the spread of the disease placed them at risk, the lockdown itself induced major survival challenges. By using media and social media analysis, we show how the discourse of negative quarantine unfolded. The latter was diluted in the general relaxation of containment measures, but its legacy as a practice raises questions for the future governance of areas inhabited by the Roma.

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Section: Data On Pre-existing Conditions In Roma Ghettos In Romaniamentioning

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Vulnerable Roma communities in times of the Covid-19 negative quarantine

Berescu

Alexandrescu

Anghel

2021

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…However, the outcomes of these programmes suggest reduced capacities to actively intervene in the housing crises and clarify the continuation of slum construction and illegal rental markets in both countries ( Teodorescu, 2018 , Van Gelder et al, 2016 , Vincze, 2018 , Vincze and Rat, 2013 ). To start with the ANL in Romania, budgetary deficits and a poorly functioning organisation have made the ANL a failure in terms of output figures ( Amann et al, 2013 ; Turcu, 2017 ). In the period since the establishment of the ANL (1998), large-scale evictions could not be averted ( Ion, 2014 , Lancione, 2017 , Lancione, 2019b , Chelcea et al, 2015 ).…”

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Homeownership, mobility, and home: A relational housing study of Argentine Ludar and Romanian Rudari

Teodorescu

2020

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“…In The Netherlands, there are 12.5 social housing units per 100 inhabitants; in Spain, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Estonia and Croatia this figure is less than one. In Romania, for example, which has the lowest rate of social housing per 100 inhabitants, the percentage of public expenditure allocated to social housing fell from 8.7% in 1989 to 0.8% in 2000 [36]. Nevertheless, in Amsterdam, where 45% of total housing is social housing there are problems related to access to social housing and its management [37].…”

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Urban Housing Inequity: Housing Deprivation and Social Response in the City of Naples

Lanza

Martino

2022

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The growth of social inequality in recent decades has a strong urban dimension. In fact, cities are places where such inequalities grow quickly, and have a strong influence on the living conditions and perspectives of different social groups. In this sense, urban segregation becomes an important warning in assessing the existence of disparities that affect the most disadvantaged social groups. Therefore, the aim of this research was to outline the evidence of the phenomenon of residential segregation and housing insecurity on a European scale, and to analyze the case study of Naples, Italy, evaluating the presence of the phenomena of urban segregation and housing insecurity within through the creation of a synthetic index: the “Index of housing deprivation in the neighborhoods of the city of Naples”. After analyzing the extent of the phenomena, we took a step further, seeking to understand whether there have been responses from civil society through protest movements. Indeed, another objective of this paper was to understand why, in the city of Naples, there is no strong social response. In order to give an explanation, we will carry out a comparison with the action of the social movements of Barcelona.

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Mind the Poorest: Social Housing Provision in Post-crisis Romania

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Vulnerable Roma communities in times of the Covid-19 negative quarantine

Vulnerable Roma communities in times of the Covid-19 negative quarantine

Homeownership, mobility, and home: A relational housing study of Argentine Ludar and Romanian Rudari

Urban Housing Inequity: Housing Deprivation and Social Response in the City of Naples

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