Emplaced Displacement and Public Housing Redevelopment

From Physical Displacement to Social, Cultural, and Economic Replacement

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ID21633613
AuthorsLaura Wynne (0000-0002-5654-3464, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Darlington, Australia), D Rogers (0000-0002-9359-8958, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume31
Issue3-5
Pages395-410
Publication date2021-09-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHousing Policy Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1051-1482 • E-ISSN: 2152-050X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10511482.2020.1772337
OpenAlexW3042077929
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited37

This article reports on a study of the Waterloo public housing estate in Sydney, Australia. In 2015, the state government announced the inner-city estate would be redeveloped to accommodate some affordable/social dwellings (30%) but with the majority of new dwellings being private market housing (70%). Based on ethnographic research conducted with residents of Waterloo between 2010 and 2017, we analyze the Waterloo redevelopment as an example of emplaced displacement. We draw on the work of geographer Doreen Massey and legal scholar Sarah Keenan to understand place as more than physical space, allowing us to conceptualize displacement as something more than simply the movement of people from one physical place to another. We bring to the fore the subjective experience of place, as articulated by public housing tenants, demonstrating that although they remain physically in place, the threat of eviction posed by the redevelopment significantly alters tenants’ spatial, sociocultural, and temporal relationship to place (i.e., the spaces tenants carry with them). The concept of embodied displacement seeks to capture the spatiotemporal diversity of low-income public renters’ experiences of loss of place

Built environment · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Estate · Eviction · Geographer · Political science · Politics · Public housing · Public space · Real estate · Redevelopment · Right to the city · Sociology · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Public Administration · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance

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