Automatic disdain for ‘gentrification’ is misguided if local lives are improved | Rowan Moore

Jeremy Corbyn was right to raise concerns about regeneration. But it can be done with respect for existing communitiesNo social cleansing, said Jeremy Corbyn in Brighton last week, adding that residents should be balloted on redevelopment plans for their areas. These are a choice of words and a proposal that put him on a collision course with certain Labour councils, such as the London boroughs of Haringey and Southwark, at whose deals with developers the accusation of “social cleansing” is often aimed.In deals such as Haringey’s proposed rebuilding of the Northumberland Park estate in Tottenham, the local authority hopes to salvage an amount of affordable homes from the wholesale replacement and up-marketing of swaths of housing in deprived areas. Continue reading…
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