The Removal of Millers Point Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney by the New South Wales Government: Narratives of Government and Tenants

《The Removal of Millers Point Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney by the New South Wales Government: Narratives of Government and Tenants》

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关键字: Public housing; displacement; removal process; inner Sydney; neoliberalism; instrumental rationality; NEOLIBERALISM

作者单位: [Morris, Alan] Univ Technol Sydney, Inst Publ Policy & Governance, Broadway, Australia. Morris, A (reprint author), Univ Technol Sydney, Inst Publ Policy & Governance, Broadway, Australia. E-Mail: Alan.morris@uts.edu.au

摘要: In 2014, the New South Wales (NSW) government announced that it was to move all of the approximately 580 public housing tenants from Millers Point, Dawes Point and The Rocks in inner Sydney, sell the properties and use the proceeds to build social housing. This article, drawing on government media material and in-depth interviews with tenants, examines the removal process and contrasts the government's narrative with that of the tenants. What is argued is that the displacement reflects how in the current neoliberal climate, instrumental rationality is a central feature, i.e. little cognisance is taken of the human cost of policies.