Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents

Paul Watt is Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• IntroductionPART I: Policy analysis and research contextHousing policy: the rise and fall of public housingUrban policy: estate regenerationThe research boroughs and their estatesPART II: Estates before regenerationMarginalisation and inclusionValued placesDevalued placesPART III: Living through regenerationBeginningsDegenerationDisplacementResistanceAftermathsConclusionAppendix A: MethodologyAppendix B: Profile of interviewees

“Paul Watt is a leading analyst of housing policy and politics. He draws on this experience to make sense of a pervasive and troubling housing policy that is reshaping urban space and urban lives in London and beyond.” David Madden, London School of Economics"The book enables a new understanding of the complexities of tenure and its interaction with place and housing system dynamics. Watt superbly renders the experiences and views of secure and insecure local authority and housing association tenants, owner-occupiers, RTB owners and those displaced to the private sector, allowing the power of their stories to illuminate a wider explanation for their varied orientations to the regeneration process." International Journal of Housing Policy