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Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-SydneyConclusions—Where to from Here?

Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney:... [The concluding chapter poses the question, “What kind of city do we want?” I argue that the Millers Point/Sirius displacement and sell-off go against the fundamentals of a just city as defined by Fainstein (2010). Instead of deepening democracy, diversity and equity, it has accentuated the deep class and spatial divide in Sydney. I reiterate that the policy around Millers Point was driven by what Dillard and Ruchala (2005) call administrative evil. The essence of administrative evil is that policy-making is driven primarily by financial, quantifiable considerations and the human cost of the implementation of the policy in question, is given little or no consideration. I summarise the human cost: the physical and mental health problems unleashed by the displacement announcement and subsequent relocation; the isolation of many tenants post the displacement and the destruction of a unique and strong community, what I have called communicide. The chapter very briefly reviews the impacts of gentrification, the financialisation of housing and the bureaucractic framework put in place to force tenants to move. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-SydneyConclusions—Where to from Here?

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2019
ISBN
978-981-13-1086-7
Pages
126 –132
DOI
10.1007/978-981-13-1087-4_9
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Abstract

[The concluding chapter poses the question, “What kind of city do we want?” I argue that the Millers Point/Sirius displacement and sell-off go against the fundamentals of a just city as defined by Fainstein (2010). Instead of deepening democracy, diversity and equity, it has accentuated the deep class and spatial divide in Sydney. I reiterate that the policy around Millers Point was driven by what Dillard and Ruchala (2005) call administrative evil. The essence of administrative evil is that policy-making is driven primarily by financial, quantifiable considerations and the human cost of the implementation of the policy in question, is given little or no consideration. I summarise the human cost: the physical and mental health problems unleashed by the displacement announcement and subsequent relocation; the isolation of many tenants post the displacement and the destruction of a unique and strong community, what I have called communicide. The chapter very briefly reviews the impacts of gentrification, the financialisation of housing and the bureaucractic framework put in place to force tenants to move. ]

Published: Sep 1, 2018

Keywords: Just city; Administrative evil; Communicide; Neoliberalism; Financialisation of housing

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