Australian public housing and the diverse histories of social mix

Journal of Urban History

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 484-501

  Arthurson, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neighborhood balance; Neighborhood effects; Social housing; Social mix; Tenure mix

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HOUSING POLICY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL HOUSING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 39049137571     PISSN: 00961442     EISSN: 15526771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096144207311192     Document Type: Article

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1. David Hayward, "The Reluctant Landlords? A History of Public Housing in Australia," Urban Policy and Research 14, no. 1 (1996): 5-35.
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5. Hayward, "The Reluctant Landlords?"
6. For a fuller explanation of this point, see Kathy Arthurson, "Creating Inclusive Communities through Balancing Social Mix: A Critical Relationship or Tenuous Link?" Urban Policy and Research 20, no. 3 (2002): 45-262.
7. For instance, see Kathy Arthurson, "Social Mix and Disadvantaged Communities: Policy, Practice and the Evidence Base," Urban Policy and Research 22, no. 1 (2004): 101-6.
8. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, "Planning for Mixed Communities - Consultation Paper" (London: ODPM Publications, 2005).
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11. See, for example, George Galster and Anne Zobel, "Will Dispersed Housing Programs Reduce Social Problems in the US?" Housing Studies 13, no. 5 (1998): 605-22; and George Galster, "Investigating Behavioural Impacts of Poor Neighbourhoods: Towards New Data and Analytic Strategies," Housing Studies 18, no. 6 (2003): 893-914.
12. Studies that explore residents social networks and social interactions across different housing tenures include: James Rosenbaum, Linda Stroh, and Cathy Flynn, "Lark Parc Place: A Study of Mixed-Income Housing," Housing Policy Debate 9, no. 4 (1998): 703-40; Rowland Atkinson and Keith Kintrea,"' Opportunities and Despair, It's All in There': Practitioner Experiences and Explanations of Area Effects and Life Chances, "Sociology 38, no. 3 (2004): 437-56; and Kristian Ruming, Kathy Mee, and Pauline McGuirk," Questioning the Rhetoric of Social Mix: Courteous Community or Hidden Hostility? " Australian Geographical Studies 42 (2004): 234-37.
13. Keith Jacobs and Tony Manzi explore this idea in their article, "Performance Indicators and Social Constructivism: Conflict and Control in Housing Management," Critical Social Policy 20, no. 1 (2000): 85-103.
14. An exception is the work of Ian Cole and Barry Goodchild, "Social Mix and the 'Balanced Community' in British Housing Policy-A Tale of Two Epochs," GeoJournal 51, no. 4 (2000): 351-60, which has conducted some historical analysis of social mix policies, specifically, in U.K. housing policy commencing from 1979 onward.
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17. Bournville Village Trust, "The Development of Bournville, The Factory and Village in a Garden" (2004), retrieved from http//www.cadbury.com.au/history/04-bournville.
18. Caryl Bosman explores this idea in "Homes for Everyone " (Australian Public Intellectual Network, 2005), retrieved from http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/page?articles/feature_article.
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26. Marsden, Business, Charity and Sentiment, 271.
27. Marsden, Business, Charity and Sentiment, 273.
28. Mark Peel, Good Times, Hard Times: The Past and the Future in Elizabeth (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995).
29. Quoted in Michael Jones, Housing and Poverty in Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972).
30. Octavia Hill, Our Common Land and Other Short Essays (London: Macmillan, 1877), 154.
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36. Dorothy Urlich Cloher and Blair Badcock, "Forward," in Proceedings of Royal Geographical Society Symposium on Residential Mix, ed. Dorothy Urlich Cloher and Blair Badcock (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1978), 5.
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40. Lionel Orchard and Kathy Arthurson, "Housing," in The State of South Australia, ed. J. Spoehr (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2005), 215.
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42. Clive Forster, Areas of Multiple Disadvantage in Adelaide: Final Report to the Planning Review (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1991).
43. Kathy Arthurson, "Achieving Social Justice in Estate Regeneration: The Impact of Physical Image Construction," Housing Studies 16, no. 6 (2001): 807-26.
44. Arthurson, "Creating Inclusive Communities through Balancing Social Mix."
45. Housing officer, Salisbury North.
46. Housing officer, Salisbury North.
47. Arthurson, "Creating Inclusive Communities through Balancing Social Mix."
48. See Kathy Arthurson and Keith Jacobs, "Housing and Antisocial Behaviour in Australia," in Housing and Anti Social Behaviour, ed. John Flint (Bristol: Policy Press, 2006).
49. Charles Murray, Underclass: The Crisis Deepens (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1994).
50. Rowland Atkinson and Keith Kintrea, "Owner Occupation, Social Mix and Neighbourhood Impacts," Policy and Politics 28 (2004): 93-108.
51. Ruming, Mee, and McGuirk, "Questioning the Rhetoric of Social Mix"; Kathy Arthurson, "Identifying Resident's Perspectives about Social Mix: The Role of Qualitative Research," Asia/Pacific Network of Housing Researchers Conference, Housing and Globalisation, Kobi, Japan, September 6-8, 2005.