Abstract
This chapter explores the impact of ideological shifts on the public housing policies and planning documents that have guided the development and regeneration of social housing areas in New Zealand. Rather than seeking to evaluate urban planning and housing policies, the aim is to develop an understanding of the ideologies behind these policies and planning practices, and their effects on social housing redevelopment. To achieve these aims, a political-economic approach to critical discourse analysis is applied. The descriptive analysis investigates historical and current policy and planning documents and news reports about the study area collected from newspapers including The New Zealand Herald and the East and Bays Courier. This helps track how public housing areas have been defined in different historical periods. Following Soja’s ideas about the production of unjust geography and the political production of space, the reflective analysis examines the process by which injustice becomes infused in the political dimension. This phase of the research seeks to uncover underlying political and economic structures hidden behind the public housing (re)development programmes through exploring the representations of ideology, strategy, language, and practice in planning processes.
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Wang, S., Gu, K. (2023). Changing Social Housing Policy in the Context of Neoliberalism. In: Spatial Justice and Planning. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38070-9_6
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