Social housing in Tavros - Athens Social Atlas

Neighbourhood of social housing estates in #Tavros

The study area in Tavros is one of the settlements created to accommodate Asia Minor refugees of the 1920s in Athens (such as Dourgouti, Asyrmatos or Ampelokipoi). The refugees in Tavros were housed either in self-made shacks or in apartment blocks built by the state. After the 1920s, the neighbourhood received a large number of internal migrants. The gradual process of public housing production to replace the shacks, where refugees and internal migrants had previously lived, began in 1950. Unlike other refugee settlements (such as Ilissos, Polygono or Kountouriotika) where the traces of these settlements completely disappeared as they were progressively fully absorbed by their surrounding areas, Tavros eventually preserved its particular characteristics with the construction of the social housing estates.

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