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Social Housing and Urban Renewal

by Paul Watt, Peer Smets

Urban renewalHousing, developing countriesHousing policyPublic housingUrban & municipal planningBUSINESS & ECONOMICSInfrastructureSOCIAL SCIENCE

This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Recent renewal has involved demolishing many social housing estates and replacing them with mixed-tenure housing developments in which deconcentration of poverty and social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are major goals.

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Book data: Open Library