Diversity or Displacement? Housing capital and the right to place

Increasing costs of housing and processes of gentrification are excluding poorer people from convenient areas of cities where they have traditionally lived. This paper responds to the loss of diversity being experienced in part of inner western of Sydney which has been a first home for successive wa...

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Main Author: Richard Mohr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2020-02-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1001
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Summary:Increasing costs of housing and processes of gentrification are excluding poorer people from convenient areas of cities where they have traditionally lived. This paper responds to the loss of diversity being experienced in part of inner western of Sydney which has been a first home for successive waves of immigrants. It considers claims to various rights and forms of capital as a possible foundation of resistance to gentrification and the commodification of housing, and for their potential to promote egalitarian participation in urban life more generally. It asks whether there is any sense in which residents of a neighbourhood can assert a right to place. In conclusion, the interaction between rights and forms of capital is seen to be mediated by exchange and contestation. These concepts will be used to examine some of the social, political and economic means for promoting claims to cultural rights and the primacy of housing&rsquo;'s use value. <br /><br /> Los costes crecientes de la vivienda y los procesos de gentrificaci&oacute;n est&aacute;n excluyendo a personas m&aacute;s pobres de vecindarios c&oacute;modos donde siempre hab&iacute;an residido. Este art&iacute;culo responde a la p&eacute;rdida de la diversidad que se ha experimentado en la parte occidental interior de Sydney, que ha sido una primera residencia para varias generaciones de inmigrantes. Se toman en consideraci&oacute;n reclamaciones de derechos y formas de capital como posible base de la resistencia a la gentrificaci&oacute;n y la mercantilizaci&oacute;n de la vivienda, y para su potencial para promover una participaci&oacute;n generalizada m&aacute;s igualitaria; adem&aacute;s, plantea si hay alg&uacute;n sentido en las proclamaciones de un derecho territorial. La conclusi&oacute;n es que la interacci&oacute;n entre derechos y formas de capital est&aacute; mediatizada por el intercambio y la contestaci&oacute;n. Estos conceptos se utilizar&aacute;n para examinar algunas de las formas sociales, pol&iacute;ticas y econ&oacute;micas para promover reclamaciones de derechos culturales y la primac&iacute;a del valor de uso de la vivienda.<br /><br /> <strong>Available from:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1099" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1099</a>
ISSN:2079-5971