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The role innovative housing models play in the struggle against social exclusion in cities: the Brisbane common ground model

The history of housing in Australia is a textbook example of socio-spatial exclusion as described, defined and analysed by commentators from Mumford to Lefebvre. It has been exacerbated by a culture of home ownership that has led to an affordability crisis. An examination of the history reveals that the problems are structural and must be approached not as a practical solution to the public provision of housing, but as a reshaping of lives, a reconnection to community, and as an ethical and equitable "right to the city". This "Right to the City" has underpinned the Common Ground approach, emerging in a range of cities and adopted in South Brisbane, Queensland Australia. This paper examines the Common Ground approach and the impacts on its residents and in the community with a view to exploring further developments in this direction. A clear understanding of these lessons underpins, and should inform, a new approach to reconnecting the displaced and to developing solutions that not only enhance their lives but also the community at large.

ISSN
2183-2803
Extent
Seite(n): 62-70
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Social Inclusion, 3(2)

Subject
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Wohnen
Eigentumswohnung
Australien
sozialer Wohnungsbau
Exklusion
Stadt
sozialer Raum

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Perolini, Petra
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2015

DOI
Last update
21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Perolini, Petra

Time of origin

  • 2015

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