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 mortal development.
This shape of covert social cleansing has a long history inwards both the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland in addition to 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 in addition to clear 'blighted' neighborhoods. Residents who were displaced nether the system were meant to have compensation, inwards the shape of money, assistance inwards relocating or populace housing. In reality "these federally guaranteed measures were frequently also meager, belatedly inwards coming, or never delivered". People who were displaced frequently didn't have a fair marketplace charge per unit of measurement for their compulsory purchased homes.
The University of Richmond's Renewing Inequality is a visualization of this programme of urban renewal in addition to displacement. An interactive map shows the cities where families were displaced yesteryear urban renewal. It provides information on the position out of families displaced inwards each metropolis in addition to the position out of families displaced inwards each year. It also shows the ethnicity of the displaced families. You tin switch from the map persuasion of the information to a cartogram or nautical chart view. The nautical chart persuasion inwards item reveals the hidden racism inwards the Urban Renewal program.
