E-Module Chapter 3: Eviction & Displacement

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• General
  

  General

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  • E-Module Chapter 3: Evictions & Displacement Page
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• Consolidating Knowledge
  

  Consolidating Knowledge

  • Key Concepts Interactive Content

    This chapter discusses the dynamics relating to evictions and displacement. Have a look at this exercise to check your knowledge of important concepts introduced. 

  • Reflection Task on Gentrification Page

    What is the nature of gentrification and what factors are causing it? Reflect on an example of your choice. 

• Listening In
  

  Listening In

  • PusH Podcast - Episode 5: Evictions and Displacement in London Interactive Content

    In this podcast episode, we talk with Paul Watt, Professor of Urban Studies in the department of Geography at Birkbeck University of London about his work around evictions and displacement. We discuss his ongoing work on displacement and youth homelessness around the Olympics in East London and zoom in on the conceptual link between labour precarity and housing precarity. We also discuss gender and precarious housing and talk about his latest book called Estate Regeneration and its Discontents. Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London.
    

  • External Podcast: Squatters, Eviction and Extortion in Catalonia URL

    This episode of The Documentary Podcast by the BBC discusses how Catalonia’s housing crisis spawns opportunities for organised crime.

  • External Podcast: 99% Invisible: Chapter 5 Housing Finally URL

    In the final chapter of 99% Invisible's episode series on housing in the San Francisco/Bay Area, we hear the first-hand account of Kate Cody's experience as a chronically homeless individual. Kate recounts her experiences being evicted and displaced from various informal housing situations and the process of acquiring a permanent living situation with her recently received housing ticket.
    

  • PusH Podcast - Episode 10. The Danish 'Ghetto' Policy. Interactive Content

     In this podcast episode, we interview Dr. Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, senior researcher at the Department of the Build Environment at the Aalborg University in Denmark. We discuss the origins and effects of the Danish 'Ghetto' Policy. 
    

    If you haven't done it yet, you can now absolve this writing task on the Danish 'Ghetto' Policy.

• Getting Active
  

  Getting Active

  • Analysis. Eviction Maps Page

    Several eviction mapping projects have been initiated to gain insight in the occurrence and geographical patterns of evictions. We invite you to have a look at them and select one of them for closer examination. 

  • Research Task. The Eviction Industry Page

    In this assignment we want you to map the eviction industry in your city.
    

  • Writing Task. Evictions During Covid-19 Page

    The Covid-19 crisis has (had) severe impacts on the housing market. In this assignment we would like to study its impacts on evictions.
    

  • Writing Task. The Danish 'Ghetto' Policy Page

    We invite you to explore the Danish policy on 'ghettos' discussed in chapter 3 in more detail. 

  • Writing Task. Opinion Piece on the Negative Effects of Eviction Page

    In this assignment we want you to imagine and write about one of the situations people can end up after eviction. 

  • Research Task. 'Poverty Porn' Page

    Have a look at how the poor are presented in the media while also thinking about your own country, and what potential implications of such portrayals are. 
• Digging Deeper
  

  Digging Deeper

  • Eviction Map Brussels URL

    This is an ongoing research project on housing evictions in Brussels that collects data from different courts in Brussels in the year 2018. It is the only current European eviction mapping project (cf. the assignment in the section 'Getting Active', which contains several additional mapping projects from other regions). 
    
    

  • Further Reading: Squatters and Municipal Policies to Reduce Vacancy; Evidence from The Netherlands File

    This article from the Delft University of Technology outlines the history of anti-squatting legislation in the Netherlands.
    

  • Ted Talk: What if the Poor Were Part fo City Planning? URL

    In this Ted Talk, OluTimehin Adegbeye explores Lagos' goal of eradicating poverty by means of criminalizing and displacing it. She offers hope for a new image of a developed, flourishing city, one that has space for all its citizens.
    

  • Squat.net URL

    Squat.net is a free hosting site for different squatting movements around the world. Squatting is a rogue and informal process that can be difficult to track. This link will send you to a page for squatting-related news in Amsterdam. Check out the different tags for cities across the EU to see how different groups utilize this platform.

  • Resilience in Local Housing Policy? Liberal or Restrictive Policy Stances Among Swedish Municipalities Following the Great Migration in the Summer of 2015 URL

    In this paper, the authors conduct a theoretically grounded analysis of local housing policy for refugees among Swedish municipalities. Based on this, they argue that local housing policy has offered municipalities a tool to exert a form of intentional, or unintentional, migration control despite national efforts to impose a more just system of refugee reception.