Creating Mixed Communities through Housing Policies

This book focuses on socially mixed (e.g. by income, tenure, ethnicity or any other characteristic) communities developed through housing renewal and critically examines the policies and practices in view of the growing urban inequality.

Autorentext

Anna Maria Santiago is Administrator, Researcher, Professor, and Community Practitioner at Michigan State University (USA) whose interests focus on how housing and social welfare policies and programs can be used to reduce the social and economic disparities experienced by vulnerable, minoritized families and children residing in urban areas.

Iris Levin is Architect, Urban Planner, Lecturer, and Researcher at RMIT University (Australia) whose interests focus on housing, social mix, social planning, migration, and social diversity in cities. She is passionate about working with diverse communities and understanding the effects of migration on the built environment.

Kathy Arthursonholds the Full Academic Status at Flinders University of South Australia since 2017. Her research primarily focuses on the interdisciplinary field of housing, incorporating scholarship in the disciplines of urban planning, public health and social policy.

Inhalt

Introduction - Creating mixed communities through housing policies: Global perspectives 1. Promoting a geography of opportunity in Accra, Ghana: Applying lessons from mixed-income development successes and shortcomings 2. Low-income housing development in India: Strategies for income mixing and inclusive urban planning 3. In the name of "social mixing": The privatization of public housing to non-governmental organizations 4. Social mix in context: Comparing housing regeneration programs in Australia and Israel 5. Re-scaling social mix: Public housing renewal in Melbourne 6. Housing motivated youth in low-income neighborhoods: How practitioners shape conditions for encounters across diversity in 'intentional' social mix programs in Milan and Paris 7. Does pre-purchase counseling help low-income buyers choose and sustain homeownership in socially mixed destination neighborhoods?