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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Watt, Paul

Titel

Gendering the right to housing in the city: Homeless female lone parents in post-Olympics, austerity East London

Ist Teil von

• Cities, 2018-06, Vol.76, p.43-51

Ort / Verlag

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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• This paper assesses how gender, housing, austerity and the right to the city inter-relate with reference to female lone parents from East London, the site of the 2012 Olympic Games. In so doing, the paper draws upon qualitative research undertaken with lone parent mothers living in temporary accommodation. The women's housing experiences are embedded within a deepening of neoliberal welfare cutbacks and restructuring under what Peck (2012) has called ‘austerity urbanism’. Although the mother's lives are based in East London where they have extended family and where many of them grew up, they have either been moved, or face the prospect of being moved, out of the area and even beyond the city limits into suburban South East England. Rather than basking in the much trumpeted 2012 Games regeneration ‘legacy’, these women's right to live in East London, close to their support networks, is being eroded. •Gendering of the right to housing in the city•Brings Olympics regeneration together with austerity urbanism in relation to housing•Examines gendered nature and effects of housing policy changes in East London•In-depth analysis of female lone parents' experiences of homelessness