Abstract
Staging the Games exacerbates, or brings forward, processes already in train - the escalation of housing costs and urban redevelopment. This chapter will argue that the working classes, the insecurely housed and the homeless are subject to relocation, removal, exile or even criminalisation, prior to, and during, the staging of an Olympic Games. It will refer to concrete examples from a selection of Olympic host cities (Seoul, Athens, Beijing, Atlanta and Sydney) in relation to urban redevelopment and homelessness.
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Blunden, H. (2012). The Olympic Games and Housing. In: Lenskyj, H.J., Wagg, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230367463_33
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