When my neighborhood hosted the Olympics inwards 2012 the supposedly left-leaning local council decided it was the perfect chance to compulsory buy the homes of local residents. It wanted to sell off the properties of local working-class families to belongings developers (for a profit), amongst no plans to rehouse the locals inwards the novel someone development.
This shape of covert social cleansing has a long history inwards both the U.K. together with the USA. In the U.S. the post-war federal Urban Renewal program, that ran from 1950-1966, provided funding to local governments to larn together with clear 'blighted' neighborhoods. Residents who were displaced nether the system were meant to have compensation, inwards the shape of money, assistance inwards relocating or world housing. In reality "these federally guaranteed measures were oft also meager, belatedly inwards coming, or never delivered". People who were displaced oft didn't have a fair marketplace position charge per unit of measurement for their compulsory purchased homes.
The University of Richmond's Renewing Inequality is a visualization of this computer program of urban renewal together with displacement. An interactive map shows the cities where families were displaced past times urban renewal. It provides information on the release of families displaced inwards each metropolis together with the release of families displaced inwards each year. It also shows the ethnicity of the displaced families. You tin lav switch from the map stance of the information to a cartogram or nautical chart view. The nautical chart stance inwards detail reveals the hidden racism inwards the Urban Renewal program.
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