These shifts need to be considered in the face of changing rationales for engaging in tenure mixing strategies. Dispersing poverty concentrations in disadvantaged neighborhoods remains an important objective, but has in more recent years become more explicitly accompanied by entrepreneurial and financial rationales to sell housing. Thus, this paper shows that questions of where, how, and why governments pursue tenure/social mixing policies are closely interrelated and are subject to change over time.
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