In his academic journal, The Heygate: Community Life in an Inner-City Estate, Michael Romyn explores the destruction caused by regeneration of the Heygate Estate in inner-city London through oral interviews with the previous tenants. The unique perspectives offered by the sixteen interviewees …show more content…
Often, the blame of gentrification falls on the politicians and council managers rather than society as a whole. Although the political powers do play a major role in the gentrification of an area, the social views also contribute. Romyn emphasizes how the media portrayals and society’s assumptions of the Heygate Estate were as much at fault as the political powers. With this emphasis on social perceptions of social housing, Romyn encourages the reader to question their own assumptions of social housing and hopefully, to eradicate