“You Can't Always Get What You Want…”? Prior-Attitudes and Post-Experiences of Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods

Lawson, Louise; Kearns, Ade; Egan, Matt; Conway, Ellie

doi:10.1080/02673037.2014.994199

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“…Whilst the dominant notion has been that those with a strong sense of belonging would be more likely to experience feelings of loss or grieving after relocation (Fried 1963), more recent studies have sometimes found that these negative effects were limited because 'many respondents considered local social ties relatively unimportant' (Kleinhans 2003, p.495). Similarly, whilst Lawson et al (2015) found a close correspondence between prior attitudes to moving and post-relocation outcomes, it was also the case that those who did not want to move reported more gains afterwards than expected.…”

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“…For residents at the time, however, a mixture of both the internal and external design of the scheme proved detrimental to their social relations and exacerbated their feelings of loneliness and isolation, i.e. how they psychologically responded to a reduction in social contact (Kearns et al 2015). Internally, the issue was the use of long, central corridors, which overburdened people with too many potential neighbours and reduced the probability of meaningful casual interaction.…”

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Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives

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Housing research rarely takes a long-term view of the impacts of short-term housing changes. Thus, in studies of postwar relocation, narratives of 'loss of community' and 'dislocation' have dominated the debate for decades. This paper combines a 're-study' methodology with oral histories to reexamine the experience of relocation into high-rise flats in Glasgow in the 1960s and 70s. We find that both the immediate and longer-term outcomes of relocation varied greatly; while some people failed to settle and felt a loss of social relations, many others did not. People had agency, some chose to get away from tenement life and others chose to move on subsequently as aspirations changed. Furthermore, relocation to high-rise was not always the life-defining event or moment it is often depicted to be. Outcomes from relocation are mediated by many other events and experiences, questioning its role as an explanatory paradigm in housing studies.

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“…Her peger forskningen på, at interaktionen mellem forskellige sociale grupper inden for samme nabolag oftest er meget begraenset (Kleinhans, 2004;Wood, 2003). Samtidig peger forskningen på, at der kan vaere en negativ effekt forbundet med, at de omplacerede beboere mister deres eksisterende sociale netvaerk, når de flytter (community disruption) og efterfølgende oplever at vaere socialt fejlplacerede (socially displaced), idet de flyttes til områder, hvor naboerne har vaesentlig flere ressourcer og ofte en anden livsstil end dem selv (Lawson et al, 2015). Engelske og nordamerikanske studier peger ligefrem på, at dette kan føre til yderligere segregering og en forringelse af den enkelte beboers sociale velbefindende, fordi de omplacerede føler sig som outsidere og derfor isolerer sig (Wood, 2003;Thurber et al 2017).…”

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“…og de forhold, omplaceringen foregår under. Generelt er de individuelle effekter af boligmaessig omplacering bedst i de tilfaelde, hvor beboerne oplever at have haft indflydelse på processen (Lawson et al, 2015).…”

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På vej mod social mix? Konsekvenser af ufrivillig fraflytning fra udsatte boligområder

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Jepsen²

2020

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Sammenfatning: I de kommende år vil ommærkning, nedrivning og frasalg af almene boliger i de »hårde ghettoer« tvinge beboere til at fraflytte deres bolig. Denne form for ufrivillig fraflytning som konsekvens af strukturelle omdannelser af udsatte områder har vi ikke erfaring med i Danmark. For at kvalificere processen omkring og resultaterne af omdannelserne vender denne artikel blikket mod lande med lignende indsatser for at få svar på, hvad de internationale erfaringer med ufrivillig fraflytning fra udsatte boligområder er, og hvad vi kan lære af dem i dansk kontekst.

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“…The multi-scalar nature of place and displacement has featured in previous regeneration studies (see inter alia Allen, 2008;Lawson et al, 2015;Morris, 2019;Watt, 2013), albeit with insufficient explicit focus. The inclusion of the intermediate/block scale here is a significant advance on existing displacement studies which tend to sublimate this within the neighbourhood scale.…”

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Displacement and estate demolition: multi-scalar place attachment among relocated social housing residents in London

Watt

2021

Housing Studies

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The forced relocation-displacement-of social housing residents resulting from estate regeneration involving demolition has been the subject of considerable academic and policy debate. While some scholars and policy makers regard such displacement as having harmful outcomes in relation to loss of homes and community relations, others argue that residents benefit from relocation as they move to 'better places'. This paper contributes to this debate, and to the wider 'post-displacement' research agenda, by providing an experiential perspective on residential relocation with reference to in-depth interviews with social housing residents in London who returned to new-build flats at the redeveloped mixedtenure estates. The paper employs a multi-scalar approach to place attachment which is illustrated and analysed at three spatial scales: domestic (home/dwelling), intermediate (block of flats) and neighbourhood (estate). The home scale is the most positive albeit not unequivocal aspect of residents' post-displacement experiences, whereas place attachments at the block and neighbourhood scales are characterized by extensive and intensive disruptions and losses.

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“You Can't Always Get What You Want…”? Prior-Attitudes and Post-Experiences of Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives

Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives

På vej mod social mix? Konsekvenser af ufrivillig fraflytning fra udsatte boligområder

Displacement and estate demolition: multi-scalar place attachment among relocated social housing residents in London

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