Citizenship, concentrations of disadvantage and the manipulated mobility of the urban poor: The role of urban and social policy

Policy interventions designed to address so-called "concentrations of disadvantage" have implications on the movements of low-income citizens and these can threaten place-based civil society organisations - e.g. public housing tenant groups, local community coalitions and other neighbourhood alliances. Place-based civil society organisations have been important sites of citizen participation in low-income neighbourhoods since the Second World War. The outcomes of this study will inform gaps in the knowledge base relating to how low-income citizens create their own civil spaces and use information technologies to be involved not only in individual place-based redevelopment projects post announcement, but also how they might inform urban and social policy more generally in a market-led housing system undergoing significant change.

This project is funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute  (opens in a new window) (non ACRG)

Contacts:

Dr Dallas Rogers (opens in a new window)

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