Urban renewal without displacement? Belgium’s ‘housing contract experiment’ and the risks of gentrification

Uitermark, Justus; Loopmans, Maarten

doi:10.1007/s10901-012-9299-0

Cited by 32 publications

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“…The challenge in attempting to revitalize communities is to balance respect for the existing resident population with alterations designed to increase neighborhood safety, walkability, and aesthetic appearance. There are a few novel experiments that have tried to achieve this balance, 54 but it is a formula in need of more tinkering and future research would do well to explore residents' perceptions of revitalization efforts and track long-term health trajectories in its wake.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants in Metropolitan Boston

Holmes

Marcelli

2014

J Urban Health

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Tobacco smoking is estimated to be the largest preventable cause of mortality in the USA, but little is known about the relationship between neighborhood social environment and current smoking behavior or how this may differ by population and geography. We investigate how neighborhood social cohesion and disorder are associated with smoking behavior among legal and unauthorized Brazilian migrant adults using data from the 2007 Harvard-UMASS Boston Metropolitan Immigrant Health and Legal Status Survey (BM-IHLSS), a probabilistic household survey of adult Brazilian migrants. We employ logistic regression to estimate associations between neighborhood social cohesion, neighborhood disorder, and current smoking. We find that neighborhood-level social cohesion is associated with lower likelihood of being a current smoker (O.R.=.836; pG.05), and neighborhood disorder, measured as crime experienced in the neighborhood, is not associated with current smoking. Neighborhood population density, age, being male, and residing with someone who smokes are each positively associated with current smoking (pG.10). The health of participants' parents at the age of 35, being married, and individual earnings are associated with a reduction in the probability of being a current smoker (pG.05). Migrant legal status and length of residence in the USA are not associated with current smoking. Our findings suggest that neighborhood social cohesion may be protective against smoking. Alternatively, neighborhood disorder does not appear to be related to current smoking among Brazilian migrants.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants in Metropolitan Boston

Holmes

Marcelli

2014

J Urban Health

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“…Brussels had no spatial planning policy until the 1960s when the land-use plan was introduced as the primary regulatory planning instrument (De Decker, 2008;Halleux et al, 2012). After a long period of urban decline, urban 'revitalisation' policies were developed in the mid-1990s (Uitermark & Loopmans, 2013;Van Criekingen, 2009), but these exacerbated socio-spatial polarisation and exclusion (Swyngedouw & Baeten, 2001). Currently, effective spatial planning is constrained by a lack of coordination with housing/infrastructure production, long-lasting developments and public support for opportunistic private investments (Ananian, 2016).…”

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The governance of live-work mix: Actors and instruments in Amsterdam and Brussels development projects

Uyttebrouck

Remøy

Teller

2021

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This paper addresses the governance of the 'live-work mix'. This concept refers to the renewed intertwining of living and working activities in new housing and urban development in the context of welfare state restructuring, development of the knowledge economy and globalisation. Implementing live-work goals can be difficult because a consensus between public and private actors is usually needed to develop such projects. In this paper, we examine the actors and instruments that assist in the implementation of livework goals in targeted areas. We survey live-work development by analysing three illustrative projects in Brussels and Amsterdam, cities with comparable strategies but distinct planning systems. Our results indicate that state support is essential to enhance live-work mix, especially because the market remains reluctant to mix functions and focuses primarily on housing development. Flexible and tailor-made instruments are used, sometimes co-authored by public and private actors, to reach consensus. These instruments illustrate variants of strategic planning. Despite a shared interest in attracting target groups to redevelopment areas, the consensus-building process is affected by discrepancies in the nature of live-work mix.

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“…Payne 2016: 194-216, srov. Lind, Blomé 2012Uitermark, Loopmans 2013). Zdá se tedy, že praktiky obchodu s chudobou tak, jak jsou tematizovány v ČR, by mohly do této oblasti výzkumu spadat.…”

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Obchod s chudobou: kvalitativní obsahová analýza českých médií v letech 2006–2017

Kupka¹,

Walach²,

Brendzová³

et al. 2019

Acta FF ZČU

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The poverty business has recently become a frequent issue in public discourse. The Program Declaration of the Government of the Czech Republic also reflects this, as the poverty business is mentioned here in relation to the abuse of the welfare system through overpriced lodging houses. In spite of the political significance of the poverty business, the research on this issue has been scant. No attempt has even been made to clarify the meaning of this concept. This study is meant to be a first step in understanding the poverty business in the Czech context; it aims to explore how this phenomenon was represented in the Czech news media. The research was based on the theory of representation and qualitative content analysis, a method that was devised for thematic analysis of media content. The data were drawn from the Anopress IT database. Out of 1,277 texts containing the term "poverty business" and similar relevant terms, 66 texts were selected for the analysis. The analysis found that the poverty business is mainly presented as a matter of housing; however, other meanings were also identified, all of which were connected to the idea of exploitation of the poor and vulnerable segments of society. The victims of the poverty business include not only the clients of poverty entrepreneurs but also other people who were categorized according to their alleged decency or indecency. The consequences of the poverty business were seen as relating to clients, interethnic coexistence and the public administration. The main subjects identified in media communications were the state, municipality, and poverty entrepreneurs, who played the role of culprits, profiting subjects, and rectifiers. To conclude, the poverty business was represented as a highly politicized issue that concerns the misuse of housing benefits and is seen both as a socioeconomic and ethno-cultural problem. The solution to the poverty business was mostly conceived as a technical intervention into the welfare system, ignoring the agency of the victims of the poverty business.

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Urban renewal without displacement? Belgium’s ‘housing contract experiment’ and the risks of gentrification

Cited by 32 publications

References 22 publications

Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants in Metropolitan Boston

Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants in Metropolitan Boston

The governance of live-work mix: Actors and instruments in Amsterdam and Brussels development projects

Obchod s chudobou: kvalitativní obsahová analýza českých médií v letech 2006–2017

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