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Kate Raynor, Mladen Adamovic, Camilo Ordonez, Melissa Wheeler, Laura Panza

November 23, 2018. Stigma and segregation: Investigating attitudes towards public housing in rapidly changing neighbourhoods in Melbourne. Kate Raynor, Mladen Adamovic, Camilo Ordonez, Melissa Wheeler, Laura Panza. Public Housing Renewal Program. Public Housing Renewal Policy.

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Kate Raynor, Mladen Adamovic, Camilo Ordonez, Melissa Wheeler, Laura Panza

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  1. November 23, 2018 Stigma and segregation: Investigating attitudes towards public housing in rapidly changing neighbourhoods in Melbourne Kate Raynor, Mladen Adamovic, Camilo Ordonez, Melissa Wheeler, Laura Panza

  2. Public Housing Renewal Program

  3. Public Housing Renewal Policy

  4. Context of public housing in Australia

  5. Flemington Estate Kensington Estate

  6. Project Aim • To analyse whether the renewal of public housing and the integration of private dwellings on public housing estates improves quality of life and reduces stigmatisation for public housing tenants and surrounding communities • To identify and quantify how members of two selected neighbourhoods that contain public housing estates at various stages of renewal feel about public housing tenants, public housing buildings, and their neighbourhood. • To identify the causal factors that contribute to stigmatization and to changes in the quality of life of both private and public housing tenants.

  7. Literature Review • Urban planning: • Social mix literature used to justify redevelopment of housing (ArthursonandDarcy, 2015; Goetz, 2013). • Design is important (Levin et al., 2014) • Inter-cultural relations • Inter-group contact can reduce prejudice between groups (Ata et al., 2009) • Economics: • Children living in the projects may have better educational attainment (Currie and Yelowitz 2000) • Social Psychology • Internal stigma is more likely when an individual’s community reflects that stigma (Schofield and Butterworth 2018)

  8. Social housing studies in Australia • Generally residents were in agreement that introducing mixed tenure into the neighbourhoods had positive effects. For social housing tenants the improved design of social housing was a critical factor. (Arthurson 2013) (Adelaide) • Many respondents supported tenure mix as a way of building community, and valuing diversity in and of itself. Yet the views of some public and private housing tenants as fundamentally different and potentially deserving of different levels of housing and amenity speaks to entrenched prejudice, stereotyping and stigma associated with social housing tenure (Ziersch, Arthurson and Levin 2018) (Carlton, Melbourne)

  9. Methodology

  10. Survey Design

  11. Methodology Considerations • Interdisciplinary challenges, strengths and priorities • Emphasis on engaged, empathetic research design, particularly considering anxiety around redevelopment • The value of working with the community of interest • Online panels for constrained geographical boundaries

  12. Future Research Goals • Baseline study for future difference-in-difference research across the 9 sites • Setting a methodological standard • Engaged sharing of findings

  13. References Ananat, E. O. (2011). The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(2), 34-66. :doi: 10.1257/app.3.2.34 Arthurson, K. (2013). Mixed tenure communities and the effects on neighbourhood reputation and stigma: Residents’ experiences from within. Cities, 35, 432-438. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2013.03.007 Arthurson, K., & Darcy, M. (2015). The historical construction of ‘the public housing problem’anddeconcentration policies. Housing in 21st Century Australia: People, Practices and Policies, 173-186. Ata, A., Bastian, B., & Lusher, D. (2009). Intergroup contact in context: The mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact–prejudice link. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 33(6), 498-506. Borjas, G. J. (1995). Assimilation and changes in cohort quality revisited: what happened to immigrant earnings in the 1980s? Journal of labor economics, 13(2), 2 Collins, W. J., & Margo, R. A. (2000). Residential segregation and socioeconomic outcomes: When did ghettos go bad? Economics Letters, 69(2), 239-243. Cutler, D. M., & Glaeser, E. L. (1997). Are ghettos good or bad? The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(3), 827-872. Goetz, E. G. (2013). The audacity of HOPE VI: Discourse and the dismantling of public housing. Cities, 35(Supplement C), 342-348. doi:https://doi.org/1 Schofield, T. P., & Butterworth, P. (2018). Are Negative Community Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients Associated With Unemployment? Evidence From an Australian Cross-Sectional Sample and Longitudinal Cohort. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(5), 503-515. Taylor, S. M., & Dear, M. J. (1981). Scaling community attitudes toward the mentally ill. Schizophrenia bulletin, 7(2), 225. Ziersch, A., Arthurson, K., & Levin, I. (2018). Support for tenure mix by residents local to the Carlton Housing Estate, Melbourne, Australia. Housing Studies, 33(1), 58-76. doi:10.1080/02673037.2017.1344201

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