Housing Displacement

Author : Guy Baeten,Carina Listerborn,Maria Persdotter,Emil Pull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429762796

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Housing Displacement by Guy Baeten,Carina Listerborn,Maria Persdotter,Emil Pull Pdf

This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a prime act of housing injustice – a central issue in urban injustices. With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Hungary, this book explores how housing displacement processes are more diverse and mutate into more new forms than have been acknowledged in the literature. It emphasizes a need to look beyond the existing rich gentrification literature to give primacy to researching processes of displacement to understand the socio-spatial change in the city. Although it is empirically and methodologically demanding for several reasons, studying displacement highlights gentrification’s unjust nature as well as the unjust housing policies in cities and neighborhoods that are simply not undergoing gentrification. The book also demonstrates how expulsion, though under-researched, has become a vital component of contemporary advanced capitalism, and how a focus on gentrification has hindered a potential focus on its flipside of ‘displacement’, as well as the study of the occurrence of poor cleansing from a long-term historical perspective. This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on housing displacement to academics and researchers in the fields of urban studies, housing, citizenship and migration studies interested in housing policies and governance practices at the urban scale.

Author : Alan Morris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811310874

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Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney by Alan Morris Pdf

This book examines the forced displacement of public housing residents in Sydney’s Millers Point and The Rocks communities. It considers the strategies deployed by the government to pressure tenants to move, and the social and personal impacts of the displacement on the residents themselves. Drawing on in-depth interviews with tenants alongside government and media communications, the Millers Point case study offers a penetrating and moving analysis of gentrification and displacement in one of Australia’s oldest and more unique working class and public housing neighbourhoods. Gentrification and Displacement advances work in urban studies by charting trends in urban renewal and displacement, furthering our understanding of public housing, gentrification and the effects of forced relocation on vulnerable urban communities.

Author : Scott Leckie,Chris Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317417101

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Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement by Scott Leckie,Chris Huggins Pdf

Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms, drought and other phenomena. Following several years of preparatory work across the globe, legal scholars, judges, UN officials and climate change experts from 11 countries came together to finalise a new normative framework aiming to strengthen the right of climate-displaced persons, households and communities. This resulted in the approval of the Peninsula Principles on Climate Displacement within States in August 2013. This book provides detailed explanations and interpretations of the Peninsula Principles and includes in-depth discussion of the legal, policy and programmatic efforts needed to uphold the standards and norms embedded in the Principles. The book provides policy-makers with the conceptual understanding necessary to ensure that national-level policies are in place to respond to the climate displacement challenge, as well as a firm sense of the programme-level approaches that can be taken to anticipate, reduce and manage climate displacement. It also provides students and policy advocates with the necessary information to debate and critique responses to climate displacement at different levels. Drawing together key thinkers in the field, this volume will be of great relevance to scholars, lawyers, legal advisors and policy-makers with an interest in climate change, environmental policy, disaster management and human rights law and policy.

Author : James Tracy
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849352062

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Dispatches Against Displacement by James Tracy Pdf

San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement over almost two decades of "dot com" boom and bust, offering the necessary perspective to analyze the latest urban horrors. A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy puts the hardships of the working poor and middle class front and center. These essays explore the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life. James Tracy is a Bay Area native and a well-respected community organizer. He is co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust (which uses public and private money to buy up housing stock and take it out of the real estate market), as well as a poet and co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power.

Author : Mo Hamza,Dilanthi Amaratunga,Richard Haigh,Chamindi Malalgoda,Chathuranganee Jayakody,Anuradha Senanayake
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031214141

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Rebuilding Communities After Displacement by Mo Hamza,Dilanthi Amaratunga,Richard Haigh,Chamindi Malalgoda,Chathuranganee Jayakody,Anuradha Senanayake Pdf

This book presents a collection of double-blind peer reviewed papers under the scope of sustainable and resilient approaches for rebuilding displaced and host communities. Forced displacement is a major development challenge, not only a humanitarian concern. A surge in violent conflict, as well as increasing levels of disaster risk and environmental degradation driven by climate change, has forced people to leave or flee their homes – both internally displaced as well as refugees. The rate of forced displacement befalling in different countries all over the world today is phenomenal, with an increasingly higher rate of the population being affected on daily basis than ever. These displacement situations are becoming increasingly protracted, many lasting over 5 years. Therefore, there is a need to develop more sustainable and resilient approaches to rebuild these displaced communities ensuring the long-term satisfaction of communities and enhancing the social cohesion between the displaced and host communities. Accordingly, chapters are arranged around five main themes of rebuilding communities after displacement. Response management for displaced communities The Built environment in resettlement planning Governance of displacement Socio-Economic interventions for sustainable resettlement

Author : Karen Chapple,Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262536851

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Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? by Karen Chapple,Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Pdf

An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning literature and various policy interventions in recent decades, we still understand little about what happens to neighborhoods and residents with the development of transit systems and the trend toward more compact cities. Research has failed to determine why some neighborhoods change both physically and socially while others do not, and how race and class shape change in the twenty-first-century context of growing inequality. Drawing on novel methodological approaches, this book sheds new light on the question of who benefits and who loses from more compact development around new transit stations. Building on data at multiple levels, it connects quantitative analysis on regional patterns with qualitative research through interviews, field observations, and photographic documentation in twelve different California neighborhoods. From the local to the regional to the global, Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris examine the phenomena of neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement not only through an empirical lens but also from theoretical and historical perspectives. Growing out of an in-depth research process that involved close collaboration with dozens of community groups, the book aims to respond to the needs of both advocates and policymakers for ideas that work in the trenches.

Author : Shahd Seethaler-Wari,Somayeh Chitchian,Maja Momic
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035623710

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Inhabiting Displacement by Shahd Seethaler-Wari,Somayeh Chitchian,Maja Momic Pdf

Author : Robert McLeman,François Gemenne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317272250

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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration by Robert McLeman,François Gemenne Pdf

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted. So far, such a product does not exist. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration provides a state-of-the-science review of research on how environmental variability and change influence current and future global migration patterns and, in some instances, trigger large-scale population displacements. Drawing together contributions from leading researchers in the field, this compendium will become a go-to guide for established and newly interested scholars, for government and policymaking entities, and for students and their instructors. It explains theoretical, conceptual, and empirical developments that have been made in recent years; describes their origins and connections to broader topics including migration research, development studies, and international public policy and law; and highlights emerging areas where new and/or additional research and reflection are warranted. The structure and the nature of the book allow the reader to quickly find a concise review relevant to conducting research or developing policy on particular topics, and to obtain a broad, reliable survey of what is presently known about the subject.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Homelessness
ISBN : UOM:39015019053175

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National Affordable Housing Act by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs Pdf

Author : Khaled Hassine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108486484

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Handling Climate Displacement by Khaled Hassine Pdf

A practical and empathetic guide to managing the crisis of climate displacement, and pre-empting a mass loss of human rights.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03560940K

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Government Activities Affecting Small Business, Problems Os Small Business Displacement Under Pprograms of Public Improvement, 2d Report of the Attorney General Pursuant to Section 10(c) of the Small Business Act of 1958, as Amended by United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : Lorna Fox O'Mahony,James A. Sweeney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317028093

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The Idea of Home in Law by Lorna Fox O'Mahony,James A. Sweeney Pdf

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law. The collection considers the ideas concerning home - both in the sense of the dwelling place as a special type of property, and territorial claims to homeland - which underpin many contemporary legal problems, by examining a range of contexts where people are displaced or dispossessed from their homes. The essays focusing on dispossession consider themes ranging from mortgage and rent arrears in the UK to responses to the foreclosure crisis in the USA, and from eviction for the purposes of economic development in South Africa to the exclusion of asylum seekers from the UK's social housing and welfare provision, and within the framework of the European Convention on Human Rights. The displacement theme, meanwhile, examines transnational 'home' issues from the experiences of exiles and refugees in areas of conflict to the impact of the broader context of economic, social and cultural rights on attempts to protect housing and home through international law. At the heart of each essay the contributors, experts from across the fields of law, policy, and housing rights, examine the circumstances in which displacement and dispossession take place, and reconsider how law and policy respond to such circumstances with a particular focus on the impact of loss of home for the human person. At a time of particular and increasing concern about security of tenure and the role of law and policy in protecting people who are vulnerable to forced eviction, The Idea of Home in Law presents a bold opportunity to raise questions about the 'rights' and norms associated with housing and home, and to generate new insights for scholarship and for national and international policy debates concerning displacement and dispossession.

Author : Jake Bittle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781982178277

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The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence “The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future. Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don’t realize is that the consequences of climate change are already visible, right here in the United States. In communities across the country, climate disasters are pushing thousands of people away from their homes. A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is “a vivid tour of the new human geography just coming into view” (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth). From half-drowned Louisiana to fire-scorched California, from the dried-up cotton fields of Arizona to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. In the last few decades, the federal government has moved tens of thousands of families away from flood zones, and tens of thousands more have moved of their own accord in the aftermath of natural disasters. Insurance and mortgage markets are already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pricing people out of risky areas. Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what will be the largest migration in our country’s history. The Great Displacement compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives—erasing historic towns and villages, pushing people toward new areas, and reshaping the geography of the United States.

Author : Erualdo González Romero,Michelle E. Zuñiga,Ashley C. Hernandez,Rodolfo D. Torres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000585704

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Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures by Erualdo González Romero,Michelle E. Zuñiga,Ashley C. Hernandez,Rodolfo D. Torres Pdf

Gentrification is one of the most debilitating—and least understood—issues in American cities today. Scholars and community activists adjoin in Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures to engage directly and critically with the issue of gentrification and to address its impacts on marginalized, materially exploited, and displaced communities. Authors in this collection begin to unpack and explore the forces that underlie these significant changes in an area’s social character and spatial landscape. Central in their analyses is an emphasis on racial formations and class relations, as they each look to find the essence of the urban condition through processes of demographic change, economic restructuring, and gentrification. Their original findings locate gentrification within a carefully integrated theoretical and political framework and challenge readers to look critically at the present and future of gentrification studies. Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures is a vital read for scholars and researchers, as well as planners and organizers hoping to understand the contemporary changes happening in our urban areas.

Author : Erin P. Riggs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003861805

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A Contemporary Archaeology of Post-Displacement Resettlement by Erin P. Riggs Pdf

This book explores the archaeology of the 1947 Partition, the largest mass migration in human history, and the resulting resettlement of half a million refugees in Delhi, India’s capital city. Interweaving material analysis with oral history collection and archival sources, this book considers how Delhi’s Partition refugees have interacted with the city's built landscapes through time. It demonstrates how government-built refugee colonies, influenced by both socialist and capitalist design philosophies, provided an effective and adaptable setting for resettlement. In contrast, it illustrates how Delhi’s pre-Partition landscapes—including ‘evacuee properties’ vacated by out-migrating Muslims and sections of the planned, colonial capital—have proven more problematic venues for rehousing. In these contexts, refugee families navigated life within homes shaped by past occupants and colonial-era wealth disparities. The book highlights that despite such difficulties and the unprecedented scale of Partition’s impact on Delhi, refugees have obtained an impressive degree of material success and social acceptance in the city. This example challenges assumptions about the aid-dependency of refugee communities, the potential effectiveness of public housing, and the mutability of national belonging. This interdisciplinary case study will be of interest to scholars in varied fields of study, including archaeology, architectural history, cultural anthropology, human geography, and South Asian studies.