The New Gentrifiers: The Role of Households and Migration in Reshaping Melbourne's Core and Inner Suburbs

Wulff, Maryann; Lobo, Michele

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“…The data in Table 1 show that just over half (50.5 per cent) of the (non-student) adults arriving in Melbourne from overseas between 2001 and 2006 settled in inner Melbourne suburbs (see also Wulff & Lobo, 2009), although these areas account for only 34.0 per cent of the population of greater Melbourne. Maribyrnong also attracted a disproportionate inflow of recent overseas arrivals (2.7 per cent of newcomers, relative to its share of the population of 1.7 per cent).…”

Section: Trends In Melbourne's Inner Western Suburbsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Gentrification and Displacement: The Effects of a Housing Crisis on Melbourne's Low-Income Residents

Weller

Hulten

2012

Urban Policy and Research

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This article examines gentrification processes in the context of a policy-induced housing crisis. It describes the effects of the crisis on Melbourne's inner western suburbs and documents the consequences for low-income residents. The article presents quantitative and qualitative evidence to show that the housing reallocation process has brought more affluent residents to the inner western suburbs and displaced low-income residents, pushing them into more affordable suburbs further from the city centre. This evidence exposes some of the limitations of the existing quantitative approaches to the study of displacement. We argue that the displacement effects of gentrification depend on pace of neighbourhood housing reallocation processes and housing affordability in adjacent neighbourhoods. The article concludes that planning, housing and population policies need to be better coordinated to prevent further erosion of the housing standards of low-income households and dissolution of their local communities.

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Section: Trends In Melbourne's Inner Western Suburbsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Gentrification and Displacement: The Effects of a Housing Crisis on Melbourne's Low-Income Residents

Weller

Hulten

2012

Urban Policy and Research

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“…Gentrification has become increasingly notable in Australia (see for example Wulff and Lobo 2009) and has appeared to boost the fortunes of places and people in a country obsessed with homeownership and the realization of personal freedoms and financial security through such investment. While the voices of those stressed by their mortgage payments and costs of living are much in evidence in the social conversation fuelled by newspapers and news media, those at the margins, in public housing and a lightly regulated private rental sector, generate much less concern or interest (Atkinson and Jacobs 2010).…”

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Losing One’s Place: Narratives of Neighbourhood Change, Market Injustice and Symbolic Displacement

Atkinson

2015

Housing, Theory and Society

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This article examines the narratives offered by those displaced through the gentrification of neighbourhoods in Melbourne and Sydney. Extensive qualitative interview data generated from encounters with self-identified displacees in these cities is used here to examine their responses to changes in and after they moved from their originating neighbourhoods and the impacts these changes had on them. This data reveals that despite displacement commonly being defined in terms of physical movement, in many cases, participants became dislocated and isolated by the physical and social changes that took place while still residing in neighbourhoods as they changed. The article traces these twin modes of displacementboth as a series of impacts generated by direct market dislocation but also as feelings of loss connected with a home that might be imminently lost and the cherished place around it. These narratives reveal how private renters respond to a symbolic violence that they locate in a changing built environment and a shifting social physiognomy that impinges and threatens the viability of their tenure of these places. The article locates these resentments and displacements within a sociopolitical context that celebrates ownership and investment in the very homes and places that are now lost to them.

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“…Although the full ramifications of this school deficit are unknown, clues are provided by the outmigration of young families from the urban core in Wulff and Lobo's () analysis of the 2000 and 2006 census data, and in more recent census data indicating young children (aged 4 and under) currently outnumber school‐aged children (aged 5–14 years) almost two to one in the Docklands, with only moderately better ratios in the CBD and Southbank (ABS, ; ; ).…”

Section: School Provision and Families In Central Melbournementioning

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When Social Infrastructure Deficits Create Displacement Pressures: Inner City Schools and the Suburbanization of Families in Melbourne

Nethercote

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Under advanced capitalism, gentrification converges with the post-Keynesian 'unhing ing' of the state from the project of social reproduction, including its responsibilities for collective consumption (e.g. housing, schools). Gentrification research scrutinizes this convergence through the ongoing assault on social/affordable housing, and yet anaemic hous ing welfare is not its endpoint. The social contract is further fractured through the ongoing discreditation and dismantling of the full gamut of legacies of the publicly regulated Keynesian inner city, including essential social infrastructure. Focusing on public schools, as an essential site for social reproduction, this article explores how the struggle for the city under neoliberal gentrification may be emerging along additional (non-housing) vectors. Based on a qualitative study of families' experiences of poor public education provision in central Melbourne (Australia), this article argues that the exclusionary effects of gentrification likely exceed residential encroachment as state subsidization of residents continues to yield to the subsidization of capital. In particular, this article identifies lifestage specific, infrastructure-related displacement pressures wrought by a state failure to provide adequate public primary schools in the 'regeneration' of central Melbourne, and it illustrates how these pressures prompt housing strategies that unevenly divest families of the locational advantages secured in the inner city. Highlighting the role of public school deficits in the reluctant suburbanization of lesser-resourced families assists in foregrounding state complicity in displacement dynamics and the potential for these to magnify socioeconomic, gendered and socio-spatial inequalities across the city.

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The New Gentrifiers: The Role of Households and Migration in Reshaping Melbourne's Core and Inner Suburbs

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Gentrification and Displacement: The Effects of a Housing Crisis on Melbourne's Low-Income Residents

Gentrification and Displacement: The Effects of a Housing Crisis on Melbourne's Low-Income Residents

Losing One’s Place: Narratives of Neighbourhood Change, Market Injustice and Symbolic Displacement

When Social Infrastructure Deficits Create Displacement Pressures: Inner City Schools and the Suburbanization of Families in Melbourne

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