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<blockquote>''“Displacement occurs when any household is forced to move from its residence by conditions which affect the dwelling or immediate surroundings, and which:<br/> 1) are beyond the household’s reasonable ability to control or prevent;<br/> 2) occur despite the household’s having met all previously-imposed conditions of occupancy; and<br/> 3) make continued occupancy by that household impossible, hazardous or unaffordable.” (Grier and Grier, 1978, p. 8)''</blockquote>
Although they use the term “forced” in their definition of displacement, Grier and Grier do not equate “forced” with involuntary. In fact, they describe the fact that many who are displaced are subject to a variety of actions or inactions that can be frank or subtle, therefore concluding:
<blockquote>''“For most residents to move under such conditions is about as ‘voluntary’ as is<br/> swerving one’s car to avoid an accident. By the time the landlord issues notices of<br/> eviction, or the code inspector posts the structure as uninhabitable, few occupants<br/> may be left. Therefore we cannot define displacement simply in terms of legal or<br/> administrative actions – or even draw a clear-cut line between ‘voluntary’ and<br/> ‘involuntary’ movement.” (p.3)''</blockquote> ▼
▲''“For most residents to move under such conditions is about as ‘voluntary’ as is<br/> swerving one’s car to avoid an accident. By the time the landlord issues notices of<br/> eviction, or the code inspector posts the structure as uninhabitable, few occupants<br/> may be left. Therefore we cannot define displacement simply in terms of legal or<br/> administrative actions – or even draw a clear-cut line between ‘voluntary’ and<br/> ‘involuntary’ movement.” (p.3)''
Newman and Owen (1982) extend the false distinction between voluntary and involuntary<br/> moves to moves driven by economic reasons when stating that “low-income households<br/> who experience extremely large rent increases may technically ‘choose’ to move, but the<br/> likelihood that they had any real alternative is very small” (p.137).
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