‘Housing Pain
Healing Strategies'
2023 - ongoing
Self-initiated social, urban research
Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Thanks to: Veerle Alkemade, Tayfun Balçık, Sarah van Binsbergen, Arjan Gooijer, Vera Luciano, Arna Mačkić
Housing Pain, Healing Strategies is a self initiated research and counter project about the current 'revitalisation wave' of social housing neighbourhoods in the major Dutch cities (focus on Amsterdam) and looks for socially sustainable renovation strategies without demolition of neighbourhoods and displacement of residents.
In addition to a renovation case study in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, in which the perspective of local (protest) parties is taken as a starting point, a historical framework is mapped out of possible (ethnic/class) discrimination by forced internal migration in relation to urban renewal. Are the current displacements and urban renewal policies in Amsterdam a repetition of this historical framework? And if so, are similar communities affected by this over time?
