Tenure change in London’s suburbs: Spreading gentrification or suburban upscaling?

Paccoud, Antoine; Mace, Alan

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“…Buy-to-let purchases may trigger social and ethnic neighborhood change, exacerbating disparities between neighborhoods (Paccoud, 2017;Paccoud et al, 2020;Van Criekingen, 2010). Other studies, however, highlight how both private individuals and large-scale investors have turned to investing in single-family dwellings in the suburbs of major cities (Fields, 2018;Mills et al, 2019;Paccoud & Mace, 2018). Non-conventional forms of private landlordism, e.g., AirBnB remain overwhelmingly concentrated in central neighborhoods of popular cities (Cocola-Gant & Gago, 2019;Wachsmuth & Weisler, 2018).…”

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Resurgent landlordism in a student city: urban dynamics of private rental growth

2020

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Many countries have seen a remarkable revival of private-rental housing markets in recent years. Academic literature so far has focused on theorizing the political-economic drivers of reinvestment in the tenure or on charting aggregate trends. This paper adds to these literatures in several ways based on a fine-grained analysis of housing market transformations in Groningen, a medium-sized university city in The Netherlands. First, we reveal the variegated trajectories through which private-rental growth materializes on the ground and untangle the role of different types of landlords. While small-scale private landlords remain dominant, we find a clear and important trend toward property concentration. Second, we highlight variations in spatial investment strategies across landlord types. Third, we reveal how contemporary dynamics of increased landlordism play out in a medium-sized city, embedded in a context of national private rental resurgence and local housing market pressures of a growing student city.

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Resurgent landlordism in a student city: urban dynamics of private rental growth

2020

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“…Therefore, no claims are made for the possibility of generalising the findings to other groups. While the shift to middleclass renting in London's suburbs represents a significant social change (Paccoud & Mace 2018), the sample represents established owner-occupiers not directly subject to emerging middle class uncertainty linked to the inability to access owner-occupation (Benson & Jackson 2017), although this may be a concern for their children. Rather, following Yin (2009), the case studies raise points that might be tested elsewhere, including with a different age profile and in different suburbs.…”

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Whiteness, class and place in two London suburbs

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2018

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This article addresses a specific intersection of class, place and whiteness by focusing on distinctions between middle-class owner-occupiers in suburban London. Where whiteness is constructed through association with an imaginary of the unchanging nature of rural England and in particular the village, some suburban places provide a more ready village metaphor in support of whiteness than others. In a securely middleclass suburb residents are able to misrecognise their neighbourhood as a village, and beyond the metaphor, report feeling at home in rural England. In a marginal middleclass suburb whiteness is founded on weaker claims to the English village metaphor and, moreover, residents feel less at home in rural England. This article demonstrates the need to go beyond the often made distinction between the tactics of middle class (owner-occupiers) and working class (tenants) by identifying distinctions within the former group. The relationship between imaginaries of place and whiteness is central to understanding the distinctions between middle class owneroccupiers.

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“…In the case of the United Kingdom, Paccoud (2017) showed that the deregulation of the Private Rented Sector since 1988 enabled the spread of buy-to-let gentrification in more central, disadvantaged and urban areas of England than gentrification linked to increases in ownership. In London, Paccoud and Mace (2018) found that this pushed buy-to-let gentrification into suburban locations that had remained immune to previous rounds of gentrification.…”

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“…This article is a development of the study of two types of gentrification described in Paccoud (2017) and Paccoud and Mace (2018). Therefore, in the rest of this section, we provide an outline of the general method before, in the next section, turning to the ethnic dimension that is the subject of this article.…”

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“…The dataset allocates a key household member (Household Reference Person) aged 16 to 64 to one of eight broad occupational categories: [1] higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations; [2] lower managerial, administrative and professional occupations; [3] intermediate occupations; [4] small employers and own account workers; [5] lower supervisory and technical occupations; [6] semi-routine occupations; [7] routine occupations; and [8] never worked and long-term unemployed. The 11,859 OAs in which social upscaling was identified between 2001 and 2011 had arrivals of members of the first two NS-SeC categories and departures of members of categories 5, 6 and 7 that were larger than a threshold set at 7% of the total number of Household Reference Persons aged 16-64 in the Output Area in 2001, with groups 3 and 4 co-varying with either arrivals or departures depending on particular conditions (Paccoud, 2017;Paccoud & Mace, 2018, p. 1316. The same threshold of 7% of the 2001 OA usual resident population was used to identify the tenure trajectories that have occurred in these upscaling OAs, with tenure types aggregated into three main categories: owners, social renters and private renters.…”

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The role of ethnic change in the closing of rent gaps through buy-to-let gentrification

2020

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This article analyses the interrelation of ethnicity, class and tenure in the gentrification trajectories that have taken place in England in the most recent intercensal period (2001-2011). It argues that the return of the Private Rented Sector has made possible the extension of social change to areas not favored by White British (majority ethnic) middle-class owner-occupiers. This has seen the inflow of White British private renters into White British working-class areas and the arrival of private renting Not White British middle classesprimarily migrantsin working-class areas with a significant proportion of Not White British individuals. There is thus an ethnic dimension to the geographical spread of buy-to-let gentrification and the movement toward property wealth re-concentration it feeds. The middle-class individuals entering gentrifying areas as private renters are however not classical gentrifiers as the closing of rent gaps starts with the supply of private rented units by property investors.

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Tenure change in London’s suburbs: Spreading gentrification or suburban upscaling?

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Cited by 23 publications

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Resurgent landlordism in a student city: urban dynamics of private rental growth

Resurgent landlordism in a student city: urban dynamics of private rental growth

Whiteness, class and place in two London suburbs

The role of ethnic change in the closing of rent gaps through buy-to-let gentrification

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