Rethinking Gentrification and Displacement: Modeling the Demographic Impact of Urban Regeneration

Levine, Daphna; Sussman, Shai; Ayalon, Sharon Yavo; Aharon-Gutman, Meirav

doi:10.1080/14649357.2022.2117399

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“…In Israel, many apartment owners are party to the process of urban regeneration and therefore profit from their improved living conditions and the increase in the value of their property [41]. Mualam et al [42] quantified the economic profit of all the actors in projects conducted under National Outline Plan 38 (commonly known by the Hebrew-language acronym "Tama" 38) and showed the many benefits to the apartment owners, in addition to the displacement of renters from Raze-and-Rebuild projects [43].…”

Section: Literature Review: Private Market-driven Urban Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Urban Regeneration in Israel a Tragedy or a Common?

Daphna

2024

Urban Agglomeration - Extracting Lessons for Sustainable Development

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“The tragedy of the commons” illuminates the tension between two opposing forces that are at work in urban society and space during contemporary urban regeneration: mobility and growth on the level of individuals as they maximize their abilities on the one hand, and the decline and deterioration of cities on the other hand. Based on a data-driven analysis of the spatial and economic changes occurring in Bat Yam, a suburban city in Israel’s Tel Aviv metropolitan area, as well as on a qualitative study (n = 25) with professionals, this chapter proposes conceiving of the work of professionals leading urban regeneration as a ceaseless effort to balance the commons, but with no sufficient tools or backing. In their eyes, the city had no other economic way out when it commenced the regeneration process more than a decade ago, although it now appears that the apartment owners, the developers, and the political leadership are leading the city into a situation of over-planning and a state of uncertainty. The research contributes mainly to the understanding of the impact of market forces on disadvantaged towns, which are liable to collapse beneath the burden of the need to provide services and overloaded infrastructure as the population density increases.

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Section: Literature Review: Private Market-driven Urban Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Urban Regeneration in Israel a Tragedy or a Common?

Daphna

2024

Urban Agglomeration - Extracting Lessons for Sustainable Development

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“…To better understand this process, this research suggests a microsimulation that traces the deregulation of Roosevelt Island, New York, and offers a plausible estimation of what the future might hold for the island's population. By doing so we join the efforts of researchers engaged in attempting to define, measure, and model gentrification and displacement (Benenson and Torrens 2004; Boeing 2017; Chapple, Waddell and Loukaitou-sideris 2017; Eckerd, Kim and Campbell 2019; Nelson and Ayers 2018; Levine et al 2022). Our unique contribution stems from focusing on the demographic change resulting from the deregulation of once publicly funded affordable housing, namely the Mitchell Lama Program (ML).…”

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Affordability with an Expiration Date: A Microsimulation for Estimating the Demographic Changes Caused by Deregulation of Assisted Housing

Yavo-Ayalon

Levine

Sussman

et al. 2023

Urban Affairs Review

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This research turns the spotlight to the deregulation of once publicly funded affordable housing. Through a microsimulation that follows the conversion from affordable to market-rate units on Roosevelt Island New York, we estimate the expected demographic changes each year between 1976 and 2070. The simulation combines information from the American Community Survey, the island's masterplan, the privatization agreements, and interviews with residents, to produce interactive graphs at three urban scales: the neighborhood, the project, and the building. We found that while the households of market-rate units are gradually becoming younger and more affluent, the households of affordable units are becoming older and more impoverished. Despite an individual agreement for each building, the demographic changes are similar, and that, those changes will affect low-income buildings first. Moreover, upon expiration, 30 percent of the existing protected tenants will be over 65 and at risk of being displaced. The simulation is available at http://ridigitaltwin.pythonanywhere.com/ .

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