Urban Regeneration in Dutch, French and German Social Housing Areas

Droste, Christiane; Lelévrier, Christine; Wassenberg, Frank

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“…In practice, Kantor et al (2012: 176) maintain that in the Île-de-France these measures produced ‘unregulated competitive decentralization’ rather than workable intermunicipal arrangements. The Jospin government also passed the Solidarité et renouvellement urbain (SRU) Law 2000 mainly to reverse the concentration of immigrants in the banlieues by compelling all larger municipalities to have at least 20 percent of their housing as HML housing (Droste et al, 2008: 173). The then Housing Minister declared: ‘urban segregation plays a major part in social injustice and it may threaten the Republican Pact ….…”

Section: Social Housing After 2000: Francementioning

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Explaining reforms: post-New Public Management myths or political realities? Social housing delivery in England and France

Laffin

2018

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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This article examines the assumption that recent reforms in social and public services can be understood as a transition from New Public Management to post-New Public Management. English and French social housing delivery are selected as two cases in which to test out this assumption, for ostensibly these delivery structures share significant cross-national, post-NPM similarities – a movement towards a more ‘enabling’ or steering role for central government, the creation of coordinating agencies, ‘decentralization’ initiatives, the extensive use of public–private arrangements to finance social housing and the involvement of a wide range of extra- and semi-governmental organizations. However, further investigation reveals that these reforms of delivery structures have not been predominantly driven by an unfolding post-NPM managerial or governance logic as the thesis assumes. Rather the reforms have been driven by the partisan electoral and ideological goals of central government policymakers within the context of institutional legacies and entrenched social values. Points for practitioners New Public Management and post-New Public Management have become the conventional wisdom on administrative reforms particularly in a comparative context. This article argues that these ideas reflect an impoverished understanding of public administration given that they assume that change occurs predominantly through the unfolding of managerial and/or governance logics. These logics exclude the critical role of the political parties and other socio-political factors, such as urban unrest, in driving change. This Anglo-French analysis of social housing delivery demonstrates the significance of these political factors in how policymakers define social problems, re-design and implement social housing service delivery systems.

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Section: Social Housing After 2000: Francementioning

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Explaining reforms: post-New Public Management myths or political realities? Social housing delivery in England and France

Laffin

2018

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…It is this volume's emphasis on providing rich, detailed case studies of the renewal process and its effects, notably as experienced by estate residents, which distinguishes it from existing cross-national overviews of social housing renewal (see inter alia Droste, Lelevrier, & Wassenberg, 2008;Glynn, 2009;Turkington & Watson, 2015). Whatever their analytical strengths, these existing studies sideline the voices of social housing residents.…”

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Social Housing and Urban Renewal

2017

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“…In common with other European countries, this public initiative was part of an attempt to deconcentrate poverty and boost social mix by diversifying the stock of housing and attracting the middle classes Droste et al, 2008;Kleinhans, 2004;Wood, 2003). What are the consequences for those who are relocated from demolished buildings?…”

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Forced Relocation in France: How Residential Trajectories Affect Individual Experiences

Lelévrier

2013

Housing Studies

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In France, an urban renewal programme was launched in 2003 with the aim of boosting social mix by diversifying housing in disadvantaged neighbourhoods known as 'Sensitive Urban Zones'. Drawing on 121 qualitative interviews conducted in seven neighbourhoods in the Paris region, this article focuses on relocation processes triggered by the demolition of social housing. How are these socio-residential changes experienced by those actually being relocated? To answer this question, the paper shows how an analysis of long-term residential trajectories can highlight and nuance the experiences of relocatees. Three broad types of trajectories are defined as an analytical framework for a comprehensive approach of the meaning of relocation and opportunity held by households. It shows how forced relocation can either be a positive step in residential trajectories or merely an adaptation in terms of housing, whether or not the inhabitants actually stay in their neighbourhood or leave it.

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Urban Regeneration in Dutch, French and German Social Housing Areas

Cited by 16 publications

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Explaining reforms: post-New Public Management myths or political realities? Social housing delivery in England and France

Explaining reforms: post-New Public Management myths or political realities? Social housing delivery in England and France

Social Housing and Urban Renewal

Forced Relocation in France: How Residential Trajectories Affect Individual Experiences

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