- Title
- 'I ain't been to heaven yet? Living here, this is heaven to me': public housing and the making of home in inner Newcastle
- Creator
- Mee, Kathleen
- Relation
- Housing, Theory and Society Vol. 24, Issue 3, p. 207-228
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036090701374308
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- Home in Australia is strongly associated with the tenure of home ownership and living in a detached house. This paper explores the ways in which public housing functions as home for a group of public housing tenants from inner Newcastle, Australia. Most public housing in inner Newcastle is medium density and consists of apartments and terraces. The experiences of home for these tenants are mediated by a number of factors, including their age and family circumstances; the type of dwelling in which they reside; their interactions with and perceptions of neighbours; and the neighbourhood in which they live. For some tenants living in public housing is “heaven”, and for most the experience is a positive one. However, the experience of these tenants also highlights that home can be simultaneously experienced as positive and negative, for example as secure and threatening.
- Subject
- home; public housing; ontological security; privacy; medium-density housing; neighbours; housing policy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34600
- Identifier
- uon:3603
- Identifier
- ISSN:1403-6096
- Language
- eng
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