Global city aspirations, graduated citizenship and public housing: analysing the consumer citizenships of neoliberalism

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Table 1. Number of visits to REDWatch website during the study period.

Month	Average daily visits	Monthly total visits
September 2012	1062	25494
August 2012	921	28568
July 2012	794	24639
June 2012	913	27410
May 2012	789	24465
April 2012	1088	32650
March 2012	1125	34892
February 2012	1243	36063
January 2012	979	30371
December 2011	1012	31400
November 2011	1036	31108
October 2011	894	27733
Total visits		354793

Source: REDWatch website generated statistics provided by the REDWatch Co-ordination Group.

Table 2. The social, affordable and private housing mix for Redfern/Waterloo.

Housing type	Approx no. of dwellings
Social housing	2800
Affordable housing	700
Private housing	3500
Total	7000

Source: Reproduced from Housing NSW (2011, p. 5).

Table 3. Public housing estate redevelopments announced in New South Wales 2000–2010.

Estate	Public housing dwellings at estate redevelopment announcement	Housing NSW’s target private to public tenure ratio (private/public)	Reduction in public housing dwellings onsite through the redevelopment	Tenants to be rehoused through the redevelopment
Bonnyrigg	833	70/30	0	>95%
Redfern/Waterloo	4500	70/30	0–700	Undisclosed
Airds/Bradbury	1470	70/30	839	60^a–95%
Dubbo	300	100/0	300	100%
Minto	1000	70/30	850	>95%

Source: Rogers (2012, p. 7).

^a Retaining 42% is the ‘best-case’ scenario for Housing NSW. This would require that the current residents of the 630 social housing dwellings be retained in the same dwellings over the course of the redevelopment. Based on other projects, such as the Bonnyrigg redevelopment, and the infrastructure, construction and the associated rehousing polities of this project, achieving the ‘best-case’ scenario seems unlikely.

NSW Government. (2011). NSW 2021: A plan to make NSW number one. Sydney: Department of Premier and Cabinet.

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