Can Public subsidized urban renewal solve the gentrification issue?
- Autor(en)
- Gerhard Hatz
- Abstrakt
The paper focuses on the effects of publicly subsidized urban renewal projects by unraveling the mechanism in force affecting the social sustainability of these projects in Vienna.
The goal of Vienna's model of ‘gentle urban renewal’ has been and still is not to force out the resident population, but rather to renovate the old buildings in a way that the apartments remain affordable for their tenants after renovation by subsidizing the renewal of apartment buildings. The main instruments of this renewal policy, its results, and challenges will be presented in this paper, analyzed and dissected by empirical research.
The social sustainability of Vienna's model of subsidized urban renewal is tested by indicators like rents of apartments, quality of apartments and household incomes of tenants before and after renewal by applying non-parametric statistics. Based on the notions of Lees (2015) on state-led renewal the analysis of the Vienna case provides an original contribution to the discussion on public policy-led renewal and its effects on gentrification and displacement. The analysis of the outcomes of the initiative implies that the gentle urban renewal program itself does not avoid some phenomena of gentrification but does not result in a radical displacement of residents.- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
- Journal
- Cities
- Band
- 115
- Seiten
- 1-12
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 12
- ISSN
- 0264-2751
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103218
- Publikationsdatum
- 2021
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 507020 Stadtforschung
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Urban Studies, Development, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Sociology and Political Science
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 11 – Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/can-public-subsidized-urban-renewal-solve-the-gentrification-issue(15191241-74a3-4493-87bb-a5a52b0a0381).html