[NetBehaviour] Heygate estate gentrification drawing

[dave miller]

Thanks Michael! I really enjoyed doing it.  It feels like a rough sketch as
I've just skimmed the surface of the subject and there are so many possible
angles that I could look at, many ideas popped up while drawing and
researching.
Dave
On 21 Oct 2014 21:06, "michael szpakowski" <michael at dvblog.org> wrote:

> this is great Dave!
> michael
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>  *From:* dave miller <dave.miller.uk at gmail.com>
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:34 AM
> *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] Heygate estate gentrification drawing
>
> http://davemiller.org/comics/what_sorrow_for_you.png
>
> Some explanation:
>
> The top panel shows the Heygate Estate being demolished, and bottom panel
> shows anxious residents talking to their local councillor. This drawing is
> about greed and speculation, gentrification and social cleansing, how
> Heygate’s former tenants have been moved out of their homes to make way for
> their richer replacements.
>
> The text “What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after
> field, until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land” - is taken
> from the Bible (Isiah 5)
>
> Some background:
>
> “This is a situation that divides everyone living in London in two: an
> affluent minority benefiting from a booming property market and a majority
> struggling under a severe housing crisis.
>
> Just south of the roundabout in Elephant and Castle, the Heygate Estate
> has become the paradigmatic example of the MIPIM-model of property
> development – what those profiting from it would like to call
> ‘regeneration’. Lend Lease, an Australian developer, are demolishing the
> Heygate council estate to make room for 2400 luxury flats. For thirty
> years, Heygate provided Southwark with 1200 social-rented dwellings; the
> new development will contain 79.
>
> Heygate’s former tenants have been moved out of their homes to make way
> for their richer replacements. Those who refused were dealt with via a
> Compulsory Purchase Order. Average compensation for a one-bedroom flat was
> £95,480; the cheapest equivalents in the new development will cost
> £310,000. Consequently, the vast majority have been scattered across south
> London.
>
> At a public inquiry into the process, former Heygate leaseholder Terry
> Redpath traveled in from Sidcup to describe how he was affected. “I could
> no longer afford to stay in the area,” he said. “The compensation I was
> offered plus £45,000 of life savings bought me a terraced property 15 miles
> out of London.”
>
> Heygate encapsulates how regeneration works – and why social cleansing is
> a more accurate term.
>
> At a time when millions of Londoners are in acute need of affordable
> housing, local authorities are knocking it down and replacing it with
> luxury flats. An affluent professional class moves in and, assisted by
> hedge fund managers with no intention of living in the homes they buy,
> entirely displaces the existing community.
>
> Meanwhile, most Londoners find themselves with no influence over the way
> their city changes, peeking through the window at a process that is selling
> off public land and pushing the poorest of them out of their homes.”
>
> Extracts taken from:
> http://leftfootforward.org/2014/10/the-mipim-property-fair-everything-wrong-with-regeneration/
>
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