Regeneration without gentrification - dilapidated housing in the UK
The Government will allocate 140 million to regenerating dilapidated housing estates across the country.
Under the supervision of an estate regeneration panel led by Lord Heseltine, the Government will work with 100 housing estates to transform or completely replace run-down housing. Rico Wojtulewicz, policy advisor for the House Builders Association (HBA), stressed that this programme must not, however, price existing tenants out of their homes.
The regeneration of the housing estate near Toxteth in Liverpool, consisting of formerly run-down properties which had been earmarked by the government for demolition, was awarded the 2015 Turner Prize for refurbishing homes without resulting into “corporate gentrification.”
Clare Watson, north west regional chair of the National Federation of Builders, said: “The NFB believes that the government’s initiative has scope to be very beneficial for many local communities across the country, provided that tenants are not priced out of their own homes. The Toxteth project has shown that you can get regeneration without excessive gentrification. Locally-led solutions, including using local SMEs for delivery are the key to success here.”
