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" <[email protected]> wrote:
> this is great Dave! > michael > ------------------------------ > *From:* dave miller <[email protected]> > *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > [email protected]> > *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/ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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