Poorly planned public housing developments tend to segregate and isolate poor people from the rest of society. Concentrated poverty is damaging to the health of cities and tends to produce high crime rates, violence and unemployment. Segregation limits the rights people to space, not only physical, but also political, social and economic space. Additionally and despite widespread housing policy implementation, it is unrealistic to assume that the mere mixing of various income groups will improve the lives of the poor without properly putting into place integration measures that go beyond the physical move.

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Mixed income housing policy and public housing residents’ ‘right to the city’. was published by Critical Social Policy, Volume 29, Issue 1:100-120 in 2009.

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