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...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2015
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Social Inclusion
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 62-70 |
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Common Ground
B Great Australian Dream B socio-spatial divisions B urban marginalisation B Australian housing B Social exclusion B Public Housing B urban disadvantage |
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Summary: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 2183-2803 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Social Inclusion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17645/si.v3i2.68 |