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The effects of physical restructuring on the socioeconomic status of neighborhoods : selective migration and upgrading

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Date
01/06/2019
Author
Zwiers, Merle
van Ham, Maarten
Kleinhans, Reinout
Keywords
Urban restructuring
Neighborhood change
Selective migration
Demolition
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
HT Communities. Classes. Races
3rd-NDAS
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Abstract
In the last few decades, many governments have implemented urban restructuring programmes with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived neighbourhoods. The main instrument of restructuring has been housing diversification and tenure mixing. The demolition of low-quality (social) housing and the construction of owner-occupied or private rented dwellings was expected to change the population composition of deprived neighbourhoods through the in-migration of middle- and high-income households. Many studies have been critical with regard to the success of such policies in actually upgrading neighbourhoods. Using data from the 31 largest Dutch cities for the 1999 to 2013 period, this study contributes to the literature by investigating the effects of large-scale demolition and new construction on neighbourhood income developments on a low spatial scale. We use propensity score matching to isolate the direct effects of policy by comparing restructured neighbourhoods with a set of control neighbourhoods with low demolition rates, but with similar socioeconomic characteristics. The results indicate that large-scale demolition leads to socioeconomic upgrading of deprived neighbourhoods as a result of attracting and maintaining middle- and high-income households. We find no evidence of spillover effects to nearby neighbourhoods, suggesting that physical restructuring only has very local effects.
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Zwiers , M , van Ham , M & Kleinhans , R 2019 , ' The effects of physical restructuring on the socioeconomic status of neighborhoods : selective migration and upgrading ' , Urban Studies , vol. 56 , no. 8 , pp. 1647-1663 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018772980
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Urban Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018772980
ISSN
0042-0980
Type
Journal article
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© Urban Studies Journal Limited 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14271

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