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“Moving Three Times Is Like Having Your House on Fire Once†: The Experience of Place and Impending Displacement among Public Housing Residents

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  • Lynne C. Manzo

    (Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Box 355734, Seattle, Washington, WA 98195 5734, USA, lmanzo@u.washington.edu)

  • Rachel G. Kleit

    (Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, 209C Parrington Hall, Box 353055, Seattle, Washington, WA 98195 3055, USA, kleit@u.washington.edu)

  • Dawn Couch

    (Community Attributes Inc., 1402 Third Avenue, Suite 390, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA, dawn.couch@communityattributes.com)

Abstract

The HOPE VI programme in the US displaces tens of thousands of low-income households to disperse pockets of poverty and transform sites of `severely distressed' public housing into mixed-income housing. A complete evaluation of this programme's impacts on residents must examine the meanings and functions of these communities before they are dismantled. Therefore, this paper examines residents' lived experiences of place in one site before redevelopment. This socially well-functioning community allowed residents to lay down roots, form place attachments and create bonds of mutual support with neighbours, contrary to typical depictions of severely distressed housing. Implications for US public housing policy and parallels with the discourse on social housing and social inclusion in western Europe illuminate overarching trends in housing policy for the poor.

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  • Lynne C. Manzo & Rachel G. Kleit & Dawn Couch, 2008. "“Moving Three Times Is Like Having Your House on Fire Once†: The Experience of Place and Impending Displacement among Public Housing Residents," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 45(9), pages 1855-1878, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:45:y:2008:i:9:p:1855-1878
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098008093381
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    1. Rachel Kleit & Lynne Manzo, 2006. "To move or not to move: Relationships to place and relocation choices in HOPE VI," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 271-308.
    2. Mark Joseph, 2006. "Is mixed‐income development an antidote to urban poverty?," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 209-234.
    3. Susan Popkin & Mary Cunningham & Martha Burt, 2005. "Public housing transformation and the hard‐to‐house," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1), pages 1-24.
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