Rundown segregated areas - Financing
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STREET ART MURALS FOR URBAN RENEWAL, HEERLEN, NETHERLANDS
Building community engagement, fostering urban regeneration through mural street artHeerlen (NL) is marked by a number of degenerated areas due to the collapse of the mining industry in the Limburg region. To foster social and urban regeneration in these areas the municipality uses community art as a tool to engage (...)
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AFFORDABLE COMMUNITY HOUSING, MONTREAL, CANADA
The numbers in Montreal speak for themselves: over 115 realized projects since 2005. These projects represent approximately 65,000 units including some 15% social and community housing and financial contributions, and some 15% private affordable housingThe city of Montreal has a population of 1,7 million inhabitants and 780,000 households. A large proportion of the citizens, 64.2%, is tenants as opposed to owners, which helps to keep the rent relatively low in comparison to other (...)
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GARATH 2.0, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY
Garath has been aging over the last decades and consequently households have been shrinkingLocated in the southern part of Düsseldorf’s fringe, Garath is a typical housing project district of the 1960s and ’70s. Garath faces specific challenges: the district is home to 18,730 inhabitants, of whom 11% are (...)