Abstract
The regional administrative area of Piraeus has long been a suitable case study for analyzing the impact of social housing. The six municipalities that constitute this urban agglomeration have been strongly connected with the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922 and the consequent rehabilitation of the refugee population during the 30s. Moreover, after WWII, more social housing complexes had been constructed in the urban area around central Piraeus, representing different architectural types and principles. Today, they host various socio-economic population groups. Economic immigrants and households of elderly people are some of the vulnerable households that reside today in the social housing apartments. One major issue is the poor housing conditions and the low level of preservation associated with high rates of poverty and social exclusion. This paper attempts to depict the contemporary situation in the area by providing thematic cartography with the aim of indicating crucial enclaves in need of urban regeneration.
Highlights
The aim of this paper is to offer important information about the contemporary condition of the social housing enclaves in the regional administrative area of Piraeus through original cartographic depiction
The area of study includes a variety of different social housing enclaves, constructed by different organizations
One such operation took place on the 17th of August in 1944 in Nikea and is called “Mploko Kokkinias”2. The result of this military operation was the execution of 350 people while almost 8.000 people were sent to the concentration camp in Haidari (Attica, Greece)
Summary
Most of the refugee settlements were located near industrial units 1 to 4 Km far from the boundaries of the non-refugee urban areas (Sarigiannis, 2000) This rehabilitation policy, included a variety of strategies from distribution of plots to apartment construction. During this venture, many actors played a key-role as the National Bank of Greece, The Fund for Refugee Rehabilitation, the Ministry of Social Welfare, the Committee for the Refugee Rehabilitation and other (Gizeli, 1989). Many actors played a key-role as the National Bank of Greece, The Fund for Refugee Rehabilitation, the Ministry of Social Welfare, the Committee for the Refugee Rehabilitation and other (Gizeli, 1989) In this urban context, the dichotomy of refugee and non-refugee areas prevailed until the 1950s
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