De‐concentration of Disadvantage and Mixed Income Housing

A Critical Discourse Approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12633302
AutoresMichael D''Arcy (0000-0003-4129-8539, Western Sydney University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen27
Número1
Páginas1-22
Fecha de publicación2009-10-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHousing Theory and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14036090902767516
OpenAlexW2020684287
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas46
Referencias citadas40

Despite differences in the history, form, and tenant populations, housing authorities in the UK, USA and Australia have embarked on similar redevelopment projects designed to address social exclusion by replacing areas of concentrated public housing with “mixed‐income” developments. Drawing on examples from Australia, this paper analyses the discourse which supports these redevelopment projects. Elements of the discursive strategy revealed include: the construction of public tenancy as a disadvantage in itself; the creation of particular research categories and objects (such as “estates”) based on selective use of statistics and scale; the generation of binary narratives concerning community life; and constrained forms of consultation and participation. The analysis demonstrates that while purporting to be an anti‐poverty measure, policy directed at de‐concentration of public housing and “mixed income” development forms part of a neo‐liberal agenda of housing reform and fails to address the demonstrated connections between housing and social disadvantage

Disadvantage · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Leasehold estate · Narrative · Political science · Poverty · Public economics · Public housing · Redevelopment · Scale (ratio · Social exclusion · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies