Neighbourhood at the crossroads: differentiation in residential change and gentrification in a post-socialist inner-city neighbourhood

Sýkora, Jan; Špačková, Petra

doi:10.1080/02673037.2020.1829562

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“…The existing literature on CEE (and Romania), and in particular on housing, has hardly addressed the interlinkages of deindustrialization and changes in the housing regime, while it studied housing transformations in the region through a variety of theoretical perspectives and around numerous topics, such as policies (Kroes & Ambrose, 1991;Lux, 2003;Tsenkova, 2009); privatization (Anderson et al, 1997;Clapham, 1995;Clapham et al, 1996;Vincze, 2017); restitution (Chelcea, 2003;Fisher & Jaffe, 2000;Lux & Mikeszova, 2012;Lux et al, 2018); reform/ transition (Baross & Struyk, 1993;Turner et al, 1992); marketization (Cirman, 2008;Ionașcu et al, 2019;Leetmaa & Bernt, 2022;Mandič, 2010;Pichler-Milanovich, 2001;Pósfai & Nagy, 2017;World Bank, 1993); finance (Hegedüs & Struyk, 2005;Renaud, 1996Renaud, , 1999Struyk, 2000); welfare regime (Stephens et al, 2015); gentrification/ evictions : Chelcea, 2006;Chelcea et al, 2015;Sýkora & Špačková, 2022;Zamfir, 2022;Zamfirescu & Chelcea, 2021); segregation/ gated communities (Marcińczak et al, 2014;Polanska, 2010;Rufat & Marcińczak, 2020); social housing/ public housing (Hegedüs et al, 2013;Lux & Sunega, 2014); homeownership (Lux et al, 2021;Mandič, 2018;…”

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Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Vincze

2023

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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The article examines how deindustrialization as economic restructuring and housing regime changes evolved interconnectedly in Romania during the Great Transformation from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. This article also explores how they acted as conditions for the emergence of a real-estate-development-driven housing regime (REDD-HR) alongside other factors. The analysis is from the perspective of the geographical political economy on the variegated pathways of these phenomena across borders and secondary statistical data collected by two research projects conducted in Romania in the past two years. In the Eastern semiperiphery of global capitalism or a country of the Global Easts with a socialist legacy, after 1990, the state restructured the economy by privatizing industry and public housing. During state socialism, the housing regime supported industrialization-based urbanization, whereas deindustrialization-cumprivatization in emerging capitalism facilitated the appearance of real estate development. On the one hand, the article enriches studies on deindustrialization by highlighting the role of housing in the transformation of industrial relations; on the other hand, the paper revisits housing studies by analyzing deindustrialization as a process with an impact on the changing housing regime. Altogether, deindustrialization-cum-privatization and the changing housing sector are analyzed as prerequisites of the REDD-HR.

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Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Vincze

2023

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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“…The Romanian case exemplifies the radical shift in this role, illustrating how public housing is used to maintain and justify social inequalities and racialize them while pushing everything designated as ‘social’ to the peripheries of urban spaces and policies. Furthermore, in the past few years in CEE, studies on topics such as gentrification, evictions, and marginality (Rughiniş, 2004; Chelcea, 2006; Berescu, 2011; Vincze, 2013; Chelcea et al ., 2015; Zamfirescu, 2015; Lancione, 2017; Zamfirescu and Chelcea, 2021; Sýkora and Paková, 2022; Zamfir, 2022), segregation and gated communities (Polanska, 2010; Marciczak et al ., 2014; Rufat and Marciczak, 2020), and housing unevenness (Pósfai and Jelinek, 2019; Vincze and Zamfir, 2019), have been conducted. This article further analyzes housing unevenness by discussing the connections between the market‐dominated housing regime, peripheralization of ‘the social,’ and racialization of ‘unhouseables’.…”

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RESIDUALIZED PUBLIC HOUSING IN ROMANIA: Peripheralization of ‘the Social’ and the Racialization of ‘Unhouseables’

Vincze

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This study analyzes public housing residualization as a multiscalar phenomenon, providing specific details about how it happened in a Central and East European context via the marketization of the housing system, the peripheralization of ‘the social’ and the racialization of ‘unhouseables’. It employs secondary statistical data, interviews, and document analyses to examine the endemic features of global capitalism within Romania's housing regime. The study shows that the dismantlement of the state‐socialist establishment has resulted in a lower social rental rate than in core capitalist countries. It observes that when the public housing stock has generally been depleted, newly established social housing is relocated to the peripheries of cities as a nonmarketable component of the dualist public housing sector. In Baia Mare, the municipality has created social housing enclaves for vulnerable groups associated with dangerous behavior by excluding them from other forms of public housing, whereas in Cluj‐Napoca, it has attempted to exclude marginalized people from public housing by turning it into a site of class warfare. In both cases, the housing stock under scrutiny is associated with the racialized Roma ethnicity. The approach adopted in the study enables the residualization of public housing to be addressed across the peripheralization–racialization nexus.

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Framing the Double Transition and the International Intervention

Martín-Díaz

2021

The Urban Transformation of Sarajevo

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Neighbourhood at the crossroads: differentiation in residential change and gentrification in a post-socialist inner-city neighbourhood

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

RESIDUALIZED PUBLIC HOUSING IN ROMANIA: Peripheralization of ‘the Social’ and the Racialization of ‘Unhouseables’

Framing the Double Transition and the International Intervention

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