Whereas the literature largely assumes that original residents are displaced from their communities following the implementation of market-oriented housing regeneration, this study indicates that such housing regeneration can also enable lower-middle class homeowners to turn their homes into an economic springboard. First, we argue that the social effects of the day after regeneration are the result of a process of social and spatial rupture that occurs during the extended pre-regeneration period. Therefore, understanding the social implications of urban regeneration requires us to view the act of regeneration in the broad historical context of the long-standing deterioration of the social fabric and the built environment. Second, we hold that these conditions lay the basis for an individualization of advancing personal profit through which homeowners advance the regeneration of the residences in their building while internalizing a discourse of “real-estatization” toward “self-gentrification.“ The article examines this dynamic by focusing on homeowners in a disadvantaged environment located at the heart of real-estate interest in Israel.

尽管文献在很大程度上假设在实施以市场为导向的住房更新后，原始居民会从他们的社区中流离失所，但本研究表明，这种住房更新也可以使中下阶层的房主将他们的家园变成一个经济跳板。首先，我们认为再生后一天的社会影响是在延长的再生前时期发生的社会和空间破裂过程的结果。因此，理解城市更新的社会意义需要我们在社会结构和建筑环境长期恶化的广泛历史背景下看待更新行为。第二，