Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relocation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney

This book examines the forced displacement of public housing residents in Sydney’s Millers Point and The Rocks communities. It considers the strategies deployed by the government to pressure tenants to move, and the social and personal impacts of the displacement on the residents themselves. Drawing on in-depth interviews with tenants alongside government and media communications, the Millers Point case study offers a penetrating and moving analysis of gentrification and displacement in one of Australia’s oldest and more unique working class and public housing neighbourhoods. Gentrification and Displacement  advances work in urban studies by charting trends in urban renewal and displacement, furthering our understanding of public housing, gentrification and the effects of forced relocation on vulnerable urban communities.

• Public Housing
• Millers Point
• Gentrification
• Displacement in Sydney
• Forced Displacement
• Removal of Inner-City Residents
• Forced Removal
• Resistance to Removal
• Working Class Community Displacement
• Public Housing Futures
• Adverse Effects of Gentrification
• Exclusionary Displacement
• Displacement Pressure
• History of Australian Public Housing
• Psycho-Social Effects of Gentrification
• Australian Gentrification
• Gentrification in Sydney
• Housing Displacement in Australia
• Community Displacement in Sydney

• Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Alan Morris

Alan Morris is research professor at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance at the University of Technology Sydney. He is a prominent urban and housing studies scholar whose research has been published extensively in Australian, UK, US and South African journals. His most recent books include The Australian Dream: Housing Experiences of Older Australians (2016) and A Practical Introduction to In-depth Interviewing (2015).

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