This paper explores issues of class-based inequalities in housing, particularly housing regeneration. It is based on finding from research into the impact of urban regeneration in Partick, Glasgow on the local working-class community. Regeneration often takes the form of gentrification, which sees the local government promote land sale and private housing developments in neighbourhoods as a strategy of dealing with social or economic problems. In addition, social housing is increasingly business-oriented. The consequences of this – which include the displacement of local residents because they find it increasingly difficult to secure a tenancy or buy a home – demonstrate the need for state investment and intervention in housing provision. This paper is part of a series of papers which have resulted from the Whose Economy? seminar series, held in Scotland in 2010 – 2011, whose purpose was to provide a space for researchers, representative organisations, policy-makers and people with experience of poverty to come together and explore the causes of poverty and inequality in today’s Scotland.

Authors

Paton, Kirsteen

Publication date

01 Jun 2011

Publisher

Oxfam GB

Series

Whose Economy Papers

Type

Discussion paper

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