Wither the ‘Undivided City'? An Assessment of State‐Sponsored Gentrification in <scp>A</scp>msterdam

Uitermark, Justus; Bosker, Tjerk

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“…They have to struggle for access to the remaining regulated rental sector in less attractive locations. Sweden and Stockholm is an housing markets is increasingly lost with accelerating re-commodification, giving way to more pronounced housing problems and patterns of socio-spatial divisions also in European cities (Uitermark & Bosker 2014;Hedin et al 2012). …”

Section: Policy Pressures On De-commodified Housing Sectors In Europementioning

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“…They have promoted smaller social rental housing and regulated private rental sectors vis-à-vis an expansion of homeownership. The recent literature has focused on market restructuring in different cities (Aalbers 2004;Aalbers & Holm 2008;Andersson & Turner 2014;Musterd 2014;Watt 2009), but has also put attention on low-income households and has explored whether greater market reliance may undermine their ability to find affordable housing in cities, potentially threatening the socio-spatially integrated "European city" model more broadly (Hedin et al 2012;Kadi & Musterd fc;Uitermark & Bosker 2014). …”

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Recommodifying Housing in Formerly “Red” Vienna?

Kadi

2015

Housing, Theory and Society

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Among West European cities, Vienna stands out as a case that has developed a particularly large de-commodified housing stock over the 20 th century. The city's housing model has also shown greater stability against wider re-commodification trends since the 1980s. This paper centers on two policy changes since the mid-1990s: first, the local government has ceased to provide council housing and is now entirely relying on non-profit associations for the provision of social rental housing. Second, the national government has liberalized rent regulation in the private rental market. The first part of the paper introduces these changes, discusses how they represent steps towards greater market influence and how they put pressure on de-commodified housing, particularly since the mid-2000s. The second part argues that the reforms have initiated a dualization trend among low-income households, forging a division between market insiders and outsiders. The third part reflects whether the policy changes mean that Vienna is also increasingly incorporated into broader recommodification trends. We argue that substantial de-commodification policies have remained in place, although they have been severely weakened by re-commodification attempts. Representations of Vienna as an exceptional case without significant recommodification, however, should be questioned. Keywords

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Section: Policy Pressures On De-commodified Housing Sectors In Europementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Recommodifying Housing in Formerly “Red” Vienna?

Kadi

2015

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…Looking at spatial patterns and trends, we see that in both Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the share of social rental dwellings has decreased in both central and peripheral areas. This reflects governmental strategies to facilitate gentrification processes through tenure conversions in central neighborhoods in order to accommodate the new middle classes, as well as the simultaneous aim of establishing a new social mix in disadvantaged neighborhoods through urban restructuring (Teernstra, 2015;Uitermark & Bosker, 2014). Table 1 only covers both cities.…”

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Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: changing urban geographies through boom and bust periods

2017

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Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: changing urban geographies through boom and bust periods Hochstenbach, C.; Musterd, S. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Many postindustrial cities across Europe and other contexts are marked by growing social-spatial inequalities, housing liberalization, and gentrification, which limit the housing options of lowincome households. We investigated changes in the residential moves of different low-income households (working poor, lowto-middle income, and unemployed) in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam urban regions for the time period 2004-2013. We found an overarching trend for the suburbanization of poverty toward the urban peripheries and surrounding regions. While this trend appears to be relatively crisis resistant in the tight Amsterdam housing context, it is more cyclical in Rotterdam and has slowed following the global financial crisis. Low-to-middle income and unemployed households are increasingly moving to the urban regions surrounding cities, particularly to higher density satellite towns. Nevertheless, a growing number of working poor households remain highly urbanized, employing various coping strategies to acquire housing. This paper reveals how the suburbanization of poverty is both a direct process of poor households moving from city to suburb, and a broader indirect process caused by exclusionary mechanisms such as the decreasing accessibility and affordability of inner-urban neighborhoods, which reflect broader changes in the geography and socioeconomic patterning of urban regions. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Justus Uitermark and Tjerk Bosker () examine urban policy and gentrification in Amsterdam over the past 20 years. They focus on what they argue are contradictory policy goals during this time of both simultaneously promoting market forces and owner‐occupation in the housing market (which tends to segregate the population along class divisions) and social mixing policies aimed at countering segregation.…”

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A Process of Change and a Changing Process: Introduction to the Special Issue on Contemporary Gentrification

Doucet

2014

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Gentrification is a process of social and spatial change, but it is also a changing process. This special issue aims to better understand new forms of gentrification, policies and experiences which have emerged since the year 2000. Specific emphasis has been given to the Netherlands, a country where the strong role of the state and more than two decades of pro-gentrification policy have created a unique context where gentrification is pursued, implemented and experienced in different ways than in the Anglo-Saxon world. Research into Dutch gentrification has led to new theoretical insights in the past and the papers in this special issue should present international readers with new and alternative perspectives towards contemporary gentrification, thereby contributing to a wider understanding of the 'geography of gentrification'. This introduction will examine new spatial and social manifestations of gentrification over the past decade, examine what binds them together as part of the gentrification process, introduce Dutch gentrification and outline the papers featured in this special issue.

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Wither the ‘Undivided City'? An Assessment of State‐Sponsored Gentrification in Amsterdam

Cited by 39 publications

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Recommodifying Housing in Formerly “Red” Vienna?

Recommodifying Housing in Formerly “Red” Vienna?

Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: changing urban geographies through boom and bust periods

A Process of Change and a Changing Process: Introduction to the Special Issue on Contemporary Gentrification

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