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R E A D I N G S O C I O - S P A T I A L I N T E R P L A Y P A R T 2described as an accumulation of inhabitants that lack both incentives ormotivation and resources or culture for taking care of the neighbourhood: 412A 17-year old upper secondary school pupil with Moroccanparents lives in a 5-room apartment close to Furuset senter withher parents, three brothers and for the moment also an uncle(the apartment had originally four rooms, but they had to putup an extra wall when the uncle moved in). They usually shopat Turkish and Moroccan shops near Gunerius shopping centreat Grønland, but once or twice a month they go to Sweden bycar to buy large quantities of cheap halal-meat. Until threeyears ago they lived at Tøyen, but the neighbourhood wasgetting worse. There were mostly Pakistanis there, but thenSomali refugees came into the neighbourhood. They wereaccommodated in municipal apartments and made a lot ofnoise and trouble. Some of them even had cockroaches in thebuilding. She says that another troublesome feature was thattheir neighbours didn’t care about outdoor areas or about thehall and backyard of the buildings they lived in. When movinghere they had wanted to get out of the city centre. She hadheard people saying that Tøyen was a dangerous area and thatthere have been several killings there, though she herselfexplains that she back then didn’t see as much as a drunkard.The size of the apartment and the prize were the mostimportant factors when they moved here; the apartment atTøyen (3-rooms) was sold for 1,5 million and the newapartment at Furuset was bought for only 900,000. Now thatthey have refurbished it for 200,000 they believe they wouldhave gotten 1,3 million for it was sold today, and they haveonly 20,000 left to pay on the loan. They have a vacation homein Morocco and they are planning to buy a second house there.She really hopes they will be able to buy a larger place atFuruset soon, preferably a house, and move away from thisbuilding but still remain in the area. Her youngest brothershave got lots of friends through school and they spend much412 I have not checked out whether or not this is either a statistic tendency and/or if it can be related publicpolicies. The main issue here though is that the informants believe the situation to be as it is. If the informantsare right in their descriptions of a municipality that systematic acquire apartments for social housing in thisarea (at the same time as they sell out municipal housing in central areas like at Grønland and Grünerløkka),the result will not only be an accumulation of deprived people and their problems, but also of inhabitantsbelonging to, as we have seen, “layer 3” (imposed permanent) and “layer 4” (imposed transit). Theneighboring practices of such inhabitants are not based on a conscious choice to live or stay in the area,therefore many of them lack motivation for investing time and resources for integrating into theneighbourhood.306