1. November 23, 2018
Stigma and segregation: Investigating attitudes towards public housing in rapidly changing neighbourhoods in Melbourne
Kate Raynor, Mladen Adamovic, Camilo Ordonez, Melissa Wheeler, Laura Panza

2. Public Housing Renewal Program
Impetus for this project: Public housing renewal program being rolled out across Melbourne – knock-down and rebuild public housing estates and ageing housing
Public Housing Renewal Program

3. Public Housing Renewal Policy
There are 8 sites of interest
It is part of an international trend towards financing the renewal of public housing through sale of public land. It transfers ownership of these sites to private developers that then develop private housing and use the profits of these sales to build public housing
1000 units will be knocked down and re-built and minimum of 100 new units
Context of social housing wait list of 80,000 households in Victoria

4. Context of public housing in Australia

5. Flemington Estate
Kensington Estate

6. Project Aim
To analyse whether the renewal of public housing and the integration of private dwellings on public housing estates improves quality of life and reduces stigmatisation for public housing tenants and surrounding communities
To identify and quantify how members of two selected neighbourhoods that contain public housing estates at various stages of renewal feel about public housing tenants, public housing buildings, and their neighbourhood.
To identify the causal factors that contribute to stigmatization and to changes in the quality of life of both private and public housing tenants.

7. Inter-cultural relations
Literature Review
Urban planning:
Social mix literature used to justify redevelopment of housing (Arthurson andDarcy, 2015; Goetz, 2013).
Design is important (Levin et al., 2014)
Inter-cultural relations
Inter-group contact can reduce prejudice between groups (Ata et al., 2009)
Economics:
Children living in the projects may have better educational attainment (Currie and Yelowitz 2000)
Social Psychology
Internal stigma is more likely when an individual’s community reflects that stigma (Schofield and Butterworth 2018)

8. Social housing studies in Australia
Generally residents were in agreement that introducing mixed tenure into the neighbourhoods had positive effects. For social housing tenants the improved design of social housing was a critical factor. (Arthurson 2013) (Adelaide)
Many respondents supported tenure mix as a way of building community, and valuing diversity in and of itself. Yet the views of some public and private housing tenants as fundamentally different and potentially deserving of different levels of housing and amenity speaks to entrenched prejudice, stereotyping and stigma associated with social housing tenure (Ziersch, Arthurson and Levin 2018) (Carlton, Melbourne)

9. Methodology Survey Analysis Online Survey Panel
Presentation of findings
Survey Analysis
Online Survey Panel
In-person surveys at events
Pilot Study
Survey testing with a focus group
Research Assistant recruitment
Initial survey and research design

10. Survey Design

11. Methodology Considerations
Interdisciplinary challenges, strengths and priorities
Emphasis on engaged, empathetic research design, particularly considering anxiety around redevelopment
The value of working with the community of interest
Online panels for constrained geographical boundaries

12. Setting a methodological standard Engaged sharing of findings
Future Research Goals
Baseline study for future difference-in-difference research across the 9 sites
Setting a methodological standard
Engaged sharing of findings

13. References
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