Public housing, commodification, and rights to the city: The US and England compared

Fenton, Alex; Lupton, Ruth; Arrundale, Rachel; Tunstall, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2012.10.004

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“…Gentrification processes as described already in the 1960s involved (in the case of the UK) large downgraded Victorian houses lodging multiple families being becoming single occupancy homes for the middle classes. Another recent trend documented by Fenton, Lupton, Arrundale, and Tunstall () is the migration of poor households with children from Inner to Outer London and the concomitant increase in deprivation rates in the latter areas.…”

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Moving to a better place? Residential mobility among families with young children in the Millennium Cohort Study

Gambaro

Joshi

Lupton

2017

Population Space and Place

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This paper assesses how far residential moves can result in improvement or deterioration of the housing and neighbourhood circumstances for families with young children. It uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study concentrating on the time between infancy and age 5, 2001 to 2006. First, we ask which families moved home and in what circumstances. We then examine how moving changed several aspects of housing: space standards, damp problems, and tenure. We show that the majority of moves resulted in improvements to housing conditions, especially in reducing overcrowding. We also consider neighbourhood circumstances, proxied by a measure of local poverty at small‐area level. Movers generally ended up in neighbourhoods with lower levels of poverty, or no worse, but almost one fifth of moves were downward or remained in the 30 percent poorest areas. We ask whether locating in an area with more local poverty may help achieve a larger home. There is evidence of such a trade‐off—1 in 5 families moved to a larger home, which was either in a poorer area than before or remained in the 30 percent poorest areas. We conclude by showing how the path of upward housing mobility, while numerically dominant, was far less common among families with relatively low resources and whose moves were attendant on partnership changes. For them, moves often result in smaller homes in poorer areas.

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Moving to a better place? Residential mobility among families with young children in the Millennium Cohort Study

Gambaro

Joshi

Lupton

2017

Population Space and Place

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“…The positive associations between public housing and health disadvantage found in Western studies may indeed result from poorer conditions of public housing estates. Our evidence from Hong Kong suggests that it is not sufficient to only provide public housing, but also maintain and improve the public housing stock; a clear imperative to rethink current debates on public housing in some Western global cities (Doran et al 2013;Fenton et al 2013;Hamnett 2010). …”

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The spatial pattern of premature mortality in Hong Kong: How does it relate to public housing?

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“…9 In this sense perhaps there has been a gentrification of urban statecraft strategies which have moved from focusing on the needs of footloose, creative and affluent groups (Florida, 2008) to the housing, cultural and security needs of global plutocrats who were deemed to have 'saved' London and its housing market during the early phases of the financial crisis (Shaxson, 2013). This latent bias towards the wealthy emerges in planning diktats (Webber and Burrows, 2015), welfare changes and housing plans as the city acts to effectively divest itself of what is seen as redundant human capital (Glucksberg, 2016), now marked by the significant displacement of welfare recipients (Fenton et al, 2013) and, symbolically, through the demolition of public housing estates in favour of 'mixed-use' sites (Watt, 2013).…”

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Elite Formation, Power and Space in Contemporary London

Atkinson

Parker

Burrows

2017

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In this article we examine elite formation in relation to money power within the city of London. Our primary aim is to consider the impact of the massive concentration of such power upon the city's political life, municipal and shared resources and social equity. We argue that objectives of city success have come to be identified and aligned with the presence of wealth elites while wider goals, of access to essential resources for citizens, have withered. A diverse national and global wealth-elite is drawn to a city with an almost unique cultural infrastructure, fiscal regime and ushering butler class of politicians. We consider how London is being made for money and the monied -in physical, political and cultural terms. We conclude that the conceptualization of elites as wealth and social power formations operating within urban spatial arenas is important for capturing the nature of new social divisions and changes.

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Public housing, commodification, and rights to the city: The US and England compared

Cited by 36 publications

References 14 publications

Moving to a better place? Residential mobility among families with young children in the Millennium Cohort Study

Moving to a better place? Residential mobility among families with young children in the Millennium Cohort Study

The spatial pattern of premature mortality in Hong Kong: How does it relate to public housing?

Elite Formation, Power and Space in Contemporary London

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