Transcript Experiences gained from social urban rehabilitation

Social Urban Rehabilitation
Projects in South Transdanubian
Region, Hungary
Gábor Béres
project manager
Murska Sobota, 20 September 2013
Topics discussed in the presentation
• The objectives of the social urban rehabilitation
• Main crisis areas in the towns in South Trasdanubian Region
• Action Areas of the social urban rehabilitation
• Calls announced
• Experiences gained during the preparation and implementation of
the projects
Fundamental objectives
The basic objective of the social urban rehabilitation is to stop and reverse
degradation processes in the segregated areas of the towns.
The disadvantaged areas usually have
• Run down built environment,
• High level of poverty and unemployment,
• Lack of community places, limited connections to the integrated
part of the town.
• Poor public security situation.
Typical crisis areas in towns of the Region
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Segregated areas extended to only one street or a single building
(Pécs Hungária Street)
Former colonies built for miners and industrial workers (Pécs
Györgytelep)
Colonies built for settling down Roma people in the 1960s. (Dankó
Pista Streets in Mohács, Csurgó, Paks)
Typical crisis areas in towns of the Region
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Segregated areas within the high rise residential areas built in the
1950s
Residential units established in former industrial or military buildings
(Sportvölgy area in Komló)
Farm houses, residential units in the outskirts of the towns and villages
linked to the neighbouring towns
Illegal residential areas built by homeless people (Pécs Fűzes)
Infrastructure and soft elements together
It is not an effective solution if we prepare projects targeting only the
built environment. We also have to insert soft elements into the
projects focusing on different issues like:
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Improvement of employment rates, stabilize income levels of the
disadvantaged group of the society,
promote access to education of disadvantaged children.
improve the opportunities of access to healthcare, and the support of
transition to a healthier lifestyle;
Action Areas of the urban social rehabilitation
projects financed by South Transdanubian
Operational Programme
There are 3 typical target areas involved in social urban rehabilitation
projects:
1. High rise high density residential areas with block of flats and other
house types built by industrialized housing technologies. The main
objective is to prevent that the area later become ghetto and deprived.
Action Areas of the urban social rehabilitation
projects financed by South Transdanubian
Operational Programme
There are 3 typical target areas involved in social urban rehabilitation
projects:
2. Traditional residential areas within the city that became marginalized
and run-down area. The main objective is to raise the status of the area
and create the conditions in order to generate an integration process.
Action Areas of the urban social rehabilitation
projects financed by South Transdanubian
Operational Programme
There are 3 typical target areas involved in social urban rehabilitation
projects:
3. Roma people usually live in the most degraded areas of the cities.
The disadvantaged situation is caused by the location of the area within
the city, the poor quality housing units and the high concentration of
marginallized people.
Between 2007 and 2012 theere were only rehabilitation actions in the
project proposals, but from 2013 in a special situation the complete
demolition of the slum is also possible not only the rehabilitation of it.
Calls for proposals announced in South
Transdanubain Regional Operational Programme
concerning social urban rehabilitation
4.1.1c Integrated urban development in county capital cities
4.1.2a Integrated social urban rehabilitation projects in small and medium
size towns
4.1.2.b The evaluation of residential integration within social urban
rehabilitation pilot projects
4.1.1c Integrated urban development in county
capital cities
Each county capital city has to implement an integrated urban
rehabilitation project targeting the city centre and a social urban
rehabilitation project in a segregated area of the city.
Kaposvár: Initiated 2 social urban rehabilitation projects. One of them
focuses on the enhancement of housing conditions of Roma people. They
refurbish municipal housing units (bathroom, energy eficiency
constructions).
The function of the new community house was determined in a public
participative cooperation (soft elements are organized here).
4.1.2a Integrated social urban rehabilitation
projects in small and medium size towns
The call for proposal was announced
There are 38 small and medium size towns in the
Region but only 4 of them were intersted about
the call. Finally only 2 projects were
implemented!!!
Reasons for the little interest:
- Lack of own contribution
- First of all, Municipalities wanted to
concentrate their financial sources to the
rehabilitation projects targeting the town center
and not the peripheries or outskirts
- Social urban rehabilitation is very sensitive
area from political point of view
- They require much more time for project
preparation and need highly qualified staff (social
workers, sociologists)
Experiences gained from social urban
rehabilitation projects and recommendations
for the future actions
The social urban rehabilitation is getting more significant area in EU
policies. The housing issues of the marginalized population appear in EU
regulations.
The improvemnet of the living conditions and the fight against segregation
are the most important features of the social urban rehabilitation projects.
The tools are strengthening of identity, education and employment
programmes and community building.
The improvement of housing conditions is an essential criteria of these
actions, but the proportion of the houses involved in the project has to
reach a critical level in order to generate positive changes, otherwise the
positive results will disappear soon.
Experiences gained from social urban
rehabilitation projects and recommendations
for the future actions
The introduction of the Integrated Urban Development Strategy forced
Municipalities to think and plan strategically
Reluctance of most municipalities to face or address the problems
The social exclusion means high social risk
Lack of well-prepared projects
Partnership in most cases is weak
Experiences gained from social urban
rehabilitation projects and recommendations
for the future actions
The call of social urban rehabilitation projects is less popular than other
rehabilitation calls tocusing on the renewal of the city centres.
In many cases the social urban rehabilitation projects were only public
realm projects (renewal of the pedestrian zones, streetlights, seats and
railings).
The proportion of the obligatory soft elements was only near the minimum
level.
Municipalities always had a clear vision what to do with the built
environment but they had no idea concerning the soft elements, trainings,
community actions.
Polititians do expect quick results, but positive change of the social
interventions can only be experienced in a longer term (years later).
Experiences gained from social urban
rehabilitation projects and recommendations
for the future actions
Municipalities usually initiate preliminary discussions with the
Development Agency before submitting the project proposal. Many
important issues can be clarified, so the quality of the project proposal can
be much better.
Architectural design competitions and competitive selection processes
result better solutions to different technical and design issues, so call for
proposals should prefer that type of selection process during the
evaluation procedure.
There is an oportunity to present the design proposals to a planning
commitee led by the state chief architect. The approval of this commitee
should be rewarded in the evaluation process of the calls.
URBAN RENEWAL – PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
BUILD SEE
The project treats of the residential sector and mostly urban regeneration,
new building and residential suburb.
Aims to bridge the gap between EU policy and SEE country practices,
mindful of new aspects like social issues (swift urbanization & its social
problems, disadvantaged group inclusion, participation).
Analyzes new green urban technologies in residential areas.
Project duration 24 months
South Transdanubian Regional Development Agency will prepare a case
study about the criterias of the social housing units in a segregated area
and also analyze the green public places and the new options how to use
them for multi-purposes.
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