ARTICLE CRITIQUE

Article Critique

Article Critique

Introduction

This paper is an article review of article Owner-occupation, social mix and neighbourhood impacts, written by Rowland Atkinson and Keith Kintrea

Article critique

In this article the authors demonstrates that many assumptions are made in policy-making relating to the treatment of concentrated disadvantage in the West. In the US the Moving to Opportunity programme continues to select and disperse households to locations away from public housing to give what are perceived to be better opportunities in more socially diverse areas. In the UK area-based policies target places of concentrated deprivation in order to lessen the context effects ...