Quinn, Alex (2020) Mixing Housing Tenures: Does Propinquity in Space Facilitate Social Interaction Between Residents Across Housing Tenures? A Case Study of Fatima Mansions, Dublin. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Mixing housing tenures is now a widely employed policy tool designed to ameliorate problems of social exclusion in disadvantaged areas. Implicit is the belief that the isolation and concentration of disadvantaged households can exacerbate problems of poverty and stigma. It is anticipated that a diverse range of tenure mix, ie - social housing, private owner/renter can provide disadvantaged residents with access to networks rich in resources and link them to job opportunities and role models, or what in social capital theory has been referred to as ‘bridges’. Indeed, the benefits accruing from tenure mixing are predicated on propinquity in space providing the crucial context for facilitating social interaction between residents occupying different tenure types. This research, however, implies that propinquity in space is an overly simplistic rationale and that the socio-spatial landscape of mixed-tenure developments is fraught with intricacies that are depreciated by advocates of social mixing policies. Residents’ lifestyles, socio-spatial boundaries and social housing associated stigma are all critical mediating factors for cross-tenure interaction and demand due concern. A major quandary is that tenure diversification policies are at odds with current Irish social housing policies, which presently target exclusively deprived households (low-income and benefit dependent households). The resultant stigma anchored to a residualised social housing system ensures that social interaction with residents across housing tenures is more of a fictitious hope than a reality.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Society, Sustainability and Planning (MSc Socio-spatial Planning) |
| Supervisor: | Lamker, C.W. |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2020 09:32 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2020 09:32 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3227 |
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