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The social cleansing of London council estates: everyday experiences of ‘accumulative dispossession’

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  • Loretta Lees
  • Hannah White

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London’s council estates and their residents are under threat like never before. Council tenants are being forced out of their homes due to estate renewal, welfare reforms, poverty, and the precarity of low-income work. Social cleansing can be understood as a geographical project made up of processes, practices, and policies designed to remove council estate residents from space and place, what we call a ‘new accumulative form of (state-led) gentrification’. We outline these accumulative processes, practices and policies, but more importantly we present grounded, empirical evidence of council tenants and leaseholders’ everyday experiences of dispossession, focusing our lens on three south London boroughs identified as eviction hotspots.

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  • Loretta Lees & Hannah White, 2020. "The social cleansing of London council estates: everyday experiences of ‘accumulative dispossession’," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(10), pages 1701-1722, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:35:y:2020:i:10:p:1701-1722
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1680814
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    1. Bert Provan, 2022. "CASE Annual Report 2021," CASE Reports casereport142, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
    2. Blanco, Hector & Neri, Lorenzo, 2023. "Knocking It Down and Mixing It Up: The Impact of Public Housing Regenerations," IZA Discussion Papers 15855, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Lee, Bill & Carlisle, Liam, 2024. "Interpreting an escape from an eviction trap as a social account: A Gramscian reading of a credit union’s policies in support of social housing tenants," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    4. Pagani, Anna & Zimmermann, Nici & Macmillan, Alex & Zhou, Koko & Davies, Michael, 2024. "Systemic issues of social housing in London: mapping interrelated challenges faced by Housing Associations," SocArXiv hbfwu, Center for Open Science.
    5. Tsang, Churn & Hsu, Lin-Fang, 2022. "Beneath the appearance of state-led gentrification: The case of the Kwun Tong Town Centre redevelopment in Hong Kong," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).

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