1. A Global Overview of Displaced Populations
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Fact:2.5 million residents displaced annually in the U.S.
Atkinson, R.(2000).Professionalization and displacement in Greater London
Fact:More than 10 million residents worldwide displaced by redevelopment efforts
Stanley, J.Development-induced displacement and resettlement
FACT:While urban renewal displacements receive global attention, thousands of people each year are displaced to make way for rural mineral development
Meher, R.(2009).Globalization, Displacement and the Livelihood Issues of Tribal and Agriculture Dependent Poor People
Religious / Ethnic Conflict
Urban Redevelopment
Reasons
Major Events (e.g. Olympics)
Natural Resource Cultivation

2. Brussels, Belgium
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Important Stat:90% of housing market is private, unregulated
Major displacement patterns:
In-migration of young, middle class tenants and out-migration of urban poor to industrial and impoverished neighborhoods within the city

Reason:Highly mobile adults leads to rapidly rising inner-city rent levels in unregulated market, government redevelopment policies have aided this trend
Influx of wealthy, educated professionals moving to already wealthy neighborhoods in Europeanization of city

Reason:Establishment of Brussels as the center of European Union infrastructure and the service providers that are tied to that migration
Van Criekingen, M.(2008).Towards a geography of displacement.Moving out of Brussels gentrifying neighborhoods
3. Brussels, Belgium
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Low-income households access to housing in the inner city blue-collar neighbourhoods has thus become much more problematic over the past decade. - Mathieu Van Criekingen (2006)
Government reactions:

Government redevelopment efforts aim to attract wealthier residents through property rehabilitation policies and retail and cultural developments geared towards reinvigoration add fuel to the increasing displacement pattern and clustering of low-resource individuals in industrial sites in and around Brussels
Brussels Capital Region Portal
4. Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Important Stat: 20% of total municipal population live in substandard, slum housing
Major Displacement Patterns:
Massive growth in population over the last half-century creates severe housing shortage and push residents into slum conditions in inner and outer-city

Reason:Migrants from impoverished areas of northeastern Brazil

Displacement of low-income families to poor, urban sprawl districts
Reason:Economic expansion has created significant wealth in the central portion of the city, housing many elites that work in the citys growing financial infrastructure
Hewitt, W. E.(2002).Lessons on public housing from Singapore
5. Sao Paulo, Brazil
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land speculation generally has caused an impoverishment of life quality for the poorest sectors of the population, through eviction and diversion of resources. Eduardo A. C. Nobre (1998)
Government Reactions:
In 1990s, ProjectoCingapura aimed to provide more than 100,000 units of vertical, public housing; cost overruns hamper project and limit production to 14,000 units
Hewitt, W. E.(2002).Lessons on public housing from Singapore
In 2001, the government invested $200 million in loans to the city for rehabilitation of buildings and housing geared toward current, low-income families, rather than new, wealthier tenants
Inter-American Development Bank.(2003)
6. Major Displacement Patterns:
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Washington, D.C.
Three decades ago, gentrification hits city and begins displacing residents in poorer parts of DC infrequently to the suburbs because of the already high cost of suburban DC housing stock; flipping and speculating to blame

Reason: influx in professionals seeking urban living arrangements close to their work locations causes housing prices to skyrocket
Goldfield, D. R.(1980).Private neighborhood redevelopment and displacement

Modern displacement of predominately African American residents by redevelopment efforts
Reason:is occurring as a result of skyrocketing housing prices in areas traditionally lived in by working class blacks pushing the community to cheaper suburbs
Kellogg, A.(2011, February 15).D.C., long chocolate city, becoming more vanilla
7. Washington, D.C.
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privateneighborhoodredevelopmentinWashington has generated a viciousside effect:the displacement of hundreds,perhapsthousands,ofpoor,blackhouseholdsby middle-incomeblackandwhitenewcomers. David Goldfield (1980)
The government reduced their commitment by 49% so that has to be taken on by socially conscious developers and non-profits because people dont make money as developers develop low income housing so it has to be a commitment to social justice. -anti-homelessness activist Donald Whitehead (Seed, 2010)
Government Reactions:
Historic establishment of public housing as the answer problems emerge
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Modern government policies have failed to adequately address affordable housing, partly because of derailed financial obligations due to the national economic climate
Orr, B., & Rivlin, A. M.(2011).Affordable housing in the district where are we now?
8. London, England
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Important Stat:Hundreds of Londoners have been displaced as a result of the 2012 Olympics
Major Displacement Patterns:
The 2012 Olympic Summer Games have displaced hundreds of Londonders

Olympic development sites are being located on the land of marginalized populations
Cheyne, J.(2008, June 2).Displaced by Londons Olympics
9. London, England
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We're the first people to be told to leave and I suppose it's because they thought we would be the easiest to move.We still have no idea where we are going to go, - Mary Ellen Reilly, displaced London resident (Campbell, 2006).
This is about regenerating east London, but not for the people who live there now.It's being done for a completely new population, a much richer population..., - Julian Cheyne, displacement former resident of the Clays Lane Estate (Cheyne, 2008)
Government Reactions:
London mayor puts forward multi-million dollar bidding process for the post-Olympics redevelopment process, a move he claims will assist the displaced and marginalized victims of the Games
Beard, M.(2011, March 9).Boris Johnson invites bids for first Olympic Park neighborhood
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Washington, D.C.
Brussels, Belgium
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
London, England
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