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Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-SydneyWhy Tenants Moved, Part 1

Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney:... [This chapter focuses on the bureaucratic mechanisms employed by the NSW government to ensure that tenants in Millers Point relocated as smoothly and rapidly as possible. A key mechanism was a refusal by the minister responsible for public housing to meet with the tenants prior to the announcement and for over a year subsequently. The government’s refusal certainly contributed to a sense among many tenants who had initially been keen to resist, that there was no possibility of the government softening its position and resistance was futile. Alongside the refusal to negotiate, the government put in place a “specialist relocation team”. Each tenant was assigned a relocation officer whose primary role was to facilitate the displacement of the households they were allocated. Tenants were made informal and formal offers of alternative accommodation. A key ruling was that tenants could only refuse two formal offers. The refusal of two formal offers could result in the tenant being evicted and having their right to being automatically housed in public housing rescinded. The relocation officer’s task was made much easier by this ruling. Tenants were also fearful that if they refused alternative offers, their choices may narrow and they could be housed a considerable distance from Millers Point and cut-off from friends and amenities.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-SydneyWhy Tenants Moved, Part 1

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2019
ISBN
978-981-13-1086-7
Pages
80 –93
DOI
10.1007/978-981-13-1087-4_6
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[This chapter focuses on the bureaucratic mechanisms employed by the NSW government to ensure that tenants in Millers Point relocated as smoothly and rapidly as possible. A key mechanism was a refusal by the minister responsible for public housing to meet with the tenants prior to the announcement and for over a year subsequently. The government’s refusal certainly contributed to a sense among many tenants who had initially been keen to resist, that there was no possibility of the government softening its position and resistance was futile. Alongside the refusal to negotiate, the government put in place a “specialist relocation team”. Each tenant was assigned a relocation officer whose primary role was to facilitate the displacement of the households they were allocated. Tenants were made informal and formal offers of alternative accommodation. A key ruling was that tenants could only refuse two formal offers. The refusal of two formal offers could result in the tenant being evicted and having their right to being automatically housed in public housing rescinded. The relocation officer’s task was made much easier by this ruling. Tenants were also fearful that if they refused alternative offers, their choices may narrow and they could be housed a considerable distance from Millers Point and cut-off from friends and amenities.]

Published: Sep 1, 2018

Keywords: Relocation; Bureaucracy; Non-consultation; Relocation officers; Eviction threat

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