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Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry

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posted on 2023-09-01, 14:18 authored by James Rosbrook-Thompson, Gary Armstrong
This ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act. As well as examining the long-term consequences of ‘Right to Buy,’ such as shortages in local authority stock and neighbourhood gentrification, James Rosbrook-Thompson and Gary Armstrong investigate the changes wrought on the social fabric of the individual estate. Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, the authors explore the estate’s social mix and, more specifically, the consequences of owner-occupiers, council tenants and private renters sharing a cramped inner-city neighbourhood. Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry humanizes the academic discussion of class, race, and gender in social housing through the occupants’ tales of getting by, getting along and getting out.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Number of pages

239

Series

Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

New York, NY

ISBN

978-3-319-74677-7

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-06-26

Legacy creation date

2018-06-21

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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