Mixed Neighbourhoods: Effects of Urban Restructuring and New Housing Development

Autor: Frank van Dam, Gideon Bolt, Ronald van Kempen, Sanne Boschman
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. 104:233-242
ISSN: 0040-747X
DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12015
Popis: Many European countries use mixed housing policies to decrease the spatial concentration of low-income households. Also in the Netherlands, social housing in deprived neighbourhoods is demolished and replaced by more expensive dwellings. The idea is that these new dwellings attract higher-income groups to urban restructuring neighbourhoods. At the same time, however large numbers of relatively expensive dwellings have been built on greenfield locations. This leads to a dilemma: will higher-income households choose housing in deprived neighbourhoods, while attractive new housing on greenfield locations is available? This study shows that urban restructuring attracts higher-income households to mixed tenure developments in deprived neighbourhoods, even when competing with greenfield development. Nevertheless, another process is also taking place: especially in urban regions with extensive greenfield development; there is a significant outflow of higher-income households from deprived neighbourhoods. The net result is an increasing concentration of low-income households in deprived neighbourhoods.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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