Creating Mixed Communities through Housing Policies

This book focuses on socially mixed (e.g. by income, tenure, ethnicity or any other characteristic) communities developed through housing renewal and critically examines the policies and practices in view of the growing urban inequality.

Introduction - Creating mixed communities through housing policies: Global perspectives 1. Promoting a geography of opportunity in Accra, Ghana: Applying lessons from mixed-income development successes and shortcomings 2. Low-income housing development in India: Strategies for income mixing and inclusive urban planning 3. In the name of "social mixing": The privatization of public housing to non-governmental organizations 4. Social mix in context: Comparing housing regeneration programs in Australia and Israel 5. Re-scaling social mix: Public housing renewal in Melbourne 6. Housing motivated youth in low-income neighborhoods: How practitioners shape conditions for encounters across diversity in 'intentional' social mix programs in Milan and Paris 7. Does pre-purchase counseling help low-income buyers choose and sustain homeownership in socially mixed destination neighborhoods?